New Publications

OECD had a workshop in Paris the other week on Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being.  Here's the webpage. The workshop "discussed the foundations to measuring business impacts on well-being through the creation of new measurement standards in close collaboration with the...

I've just written an article for NAEE's latest journal which will shortly appear – Vol 114.  It looks back to 1979 and the impact of the Tbilisi declaration on environmental education in England.  Here it is: 40 Years on from...

I've written about Charles Foster before – and shall do so again when I've slowly come to the end of his magisterial Being a Beast.  However, at the rate I'm going, I may never finish it as it's one of those books...

I am reading (slowly) Charles Foster's Being a Beast published by Profile Books 2016, ISBN 978-1781255346 It's a book where the being (as opposed to being with has to be taken seriously.  I suppose a more apt title might have been Trying to be a...

I've been reading Stephen Sterling's recent piece in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (Vol 10.2).  It's here, and downloadable.  This is the Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are viewed in the context of Johan Rockström’s work on...

At the end (page 122) of WWF's 2016 Living Planet report we find this: The Path Ahead The facts and figures in this report tend to paint a challenging picture, yet there is still considerable room for optimism.  If we manage to...

The venerable ENSI programme seems to have taken on the role of cheerleader (in the nicest way) for the SDGs.  Its latest newsletter shows the range of its new focus.  There's a first Report on the SDG’s 2016 with a quote...

Just before Christmas, I was asked if I'd write 400 words on "the link between education for sustainable development and behavior" for an "an international education for sustainable development project".  This is not the sort of invitation I get all that...

I've been reading A joint vision for Secondary and Higher Education for All in Europe.  This is a report on the SDGs from a formidable grouping, the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students’ Union (ESU),...

I did as I was encouraged to do the other day and looked at the new SORTED resources on sustainability on EAUC's Sustainability Exchange website.  Its aimed at the FE sector, and the first thing that you read is this nonsense:...