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This is the presentation I made at the CPRT conference last week in a small group session about global leaning and sustainable development, chaired by Kevin Bailey: The SDGs as a radical curriculum alternative? The sustainable development goals were agreed by...

UNEP's emissions gap report (2016) makes for uneasy reading, but is probably a necessary counter to all the over-positivity that has surrounded the recent 'agreement' of the Paris Agreement.  The report calls for less complacency all round.  Here's the start...

The CO2 emissions of sacred cows is by Indiana University's Richard Wilk and it is reproduced in full here, with his permission, and my recommendation, as a provocative (in the best sense) read. I have been thinking about energy conservation issues since 1982...

The Transformative Learning blog asks: Does the GEM 2016 report signify a change from the dominant neo-liberal agenda that sees education as an extension and a driver of the globalizing economy and the its push for infinite growth, innovation and...

The Brite Green Higher Education carbon report has been launched.  EAUC says: Based on data from the 2014/15 academic year, the report looks at how the sector is doing overall and specifically, how institutions are performing against their 2020 carbon...

In a new study, Charlotte Burns, Andrew Jordan and Viviane Gravey, explore what Brexit might come to mean for UK environmental policies and governance processes by comparing two scenarios: a ‘soft’ and a ‘hard’ Brexit. A ‘soft’ Brexit would see the UK...

Last week's Spectator has an article by Heri Joensen, the lead singer of Tyr, a Faroese heavy metal band, on his social media problems after he confessed to taking part in a grindadráp, the hunting of long-finned pilot whales when they get close...

Did you catch this obituary about neoliberalism in the Guardian from Martin Jacques? Rather wishful thinking, I felt, and astonishingly neglectful of the world beyond the USA-EU-UK axis.  What about the world’s poor and the SDGs, I wondered … ....

The latest EER contains papers from a symposium in Network 30 at the EERA-ECER conference in Porto in 2014. The symposium had an international and inter-disciplinary focus on environmental, sustainability, global and development education research looking at ethical and political issues within these areas....

Although the answer's probably "no!", it's a question that's out there, posed by Richard Murphy, who writes the Tax Research UK blog. Although the blog post raising this question is from 2015, interest is probably being stimulated again by the...