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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 as a contributor to the problems of Syria, but...

Thanks to Stephen Sterling for alerting me to Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism – a report published by the National Association of Scholars [NAS] which says of it: "Sustainability” is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and...

What follows is the new thematic essay I have written for Routledge ... ESD as Transformation? – a liberal review “We must take the first determined steps toward a sustainable future with dignity for all.  Transformation is our aim.  We must...

As if 17 global goals were not enough, along comes an 18th, although it is not from the UN.  Rather, it's from a Swedish band, The Knife, which, unsurprisingly, I had not heard of.  You can listen to them here; ABBA they...

The blog, Peak Environmental Impact, begins, ... "You won’t hear about it from green campaigners, but many of the key drivers of environmental destruction are slowing down.  The rate of population growth is nearly half today what it was in 1970....

It seems that the UK is leading the world in addressing one aspect of climate change.  This is that the fall in our greenhouse gas emissions per $ of GDP, at 10.9%, is not only the highest in the world...

I've been looking at the Real World Learning model which says that "it offers a holistic and flexible approach to outdoor learning for sustainability; a way of thinking, reflecting and being" which sounds good.  It also says that "each element on...

A recent report from UNESCO UK said that "ESD is increasing its profile in the Commonwealth".  It seems that, at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (in the Bahamas from 22 to 26 June – must have been nice), education ministers from...

I was ridiculously pleased to see that one of my papers made it into EER's Virtual Special Issue on studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy. Here is the VSI's editorial by Katrien Van Poeck (Ghent) and Jonas A. Lysgaard (Aarhus), in which they...

I commented yesterday on the latest 2015 survey of student and employer attitudes towards (and skills for) sustainable development in HE.  HEA has managed to overcome its institutional malaise and published it (sort of) – inexplicably you still cannot download the whole...