New Publications

"Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Themen, Methoden und Trends" is the impressive title of my latest book – well, not really, it's a book that I have a modest chapter in.  The editors are Matthias Barth and Marco Rieckmann.  Most...

I've been reading a draft of the Natural Connections Final Report which is a whopping 91 pages – almost as long as the evaluation proforma that Natural England suggested I use to provide my comments on the draft.  Needless to say, I...

This is the text of a guest blog that I have contributed to NAAEE's eePRO website in advance of a GEEP steering committee next week.  You can read it on line here, where you will find links to the wider...

Thanks to the SEEd / NAEE blogs for alerting me to  recent paper in The Conservation by Hannah Pitt, Research Associate at Cardiff, comments on research by Natural England on the extent to which youth is ‘engaging with nature’. I’ve been commenting...

Giving your school a ‘green’ focus delivers both educational and financial benefits, said an article in a recent TES.  The abstract (that is, the taster on the page that you could read without paying) said ... "Not so long ago, sustainability...

The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only because this has been seen as a contributor to...

There are some journalists whose work I always try to read, and Timothy Garton Ash is one of them.  I find his civilised, liberal, historically-grounded analysis of contemporary issues valuable in my own sense-making.  He wrote at the end of last...

I guess you have come across Palgrave MacMillan's pivot series of books?  Such a nice idea.  I've reviewing one at the moment for EER.  It's a very tactile thing with a brightly patterned silky cover. The very titles are inviting, which suggests...

Natural England has a new report: Is it Nice Outside? which presents research into dementia and the natural environment.  The report is the result of a collaborative project with Dementia Adventure, the Mental Health Foundation and Innovations in Dementia.  Here is the...

The Economist recently had an article about attempts to suppress the used clothes trade in East Africa: Let them weave their own. The UN estimates that Kenya imported 18,000 tonnes of used clothes just from the UK in 2015, and...