New Publications

UNESCO has published a new report: Global Citizenship Education: Topics and learning objectives.  This promotion of GCE begins:  This publication ... is the first pedagogical guidance from UNESCO on global citizenship education.  It is the result of an extensive research and consultation process...

A new guide highlights the environment in England's school curriculum.  In it, the National Association for Environmental Education [NAEE] asks: How can teachers respond to the challenge of teaching about pollution, endangered species, deforestation, climate change, and other environmental issues? The Association has looked at the opportunities that...

The publisher's blurb for Michael McCarthy's new book, The Moth Snowstorm: nature and joy, begins like this: Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural...

I was going to write a post about a recent Telegraph article about children's dwindling knowledge of nature.  It's another pessimistic view about how people know less and less, about less and less, at least as far as "nature" is concerned.  Mind...

The EAUC has released its much anticipated business guide for university governors: Ten Reasons to Build Resilience into the Future of your University.  It had a long gestation.  The guide was developed by EAUC and Plymouth University, together with the Leadership Foundation for Higher...

It is hard to pick up a newspaper or watch TV without coming across somebody official telling us to take more exercise.  The NHS, for example, recommends that someone my age has a mix of "moderate and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity every week...

An IMF working paper, How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?, paints a picture of energy subsidies at global and regional levels by focusing on post-tax subsidies.  These arise when consumer prices are below supply costs plus a tax to reflect environmental damage and...

Superworm is super-long.  Superworm is super-strong.  Watch him wiggle!  See him squirm!  Hip, hip, hooray for SUPERWORM! "Have a forest adventure with Superworm in 2015" – says the Forestry Commission's website.  To aid this, the Commission has published a book by Julia...

There are new national standards for Environment and Sustainability in higher education across Australia whose role is to "support the design and delivery of innovative higher education in the Environment and Sustainability field".  They are included in the newly published Learning and...

Thanks to the SDRN for pointing out that Carbon Brief has produced an interactive online tracker that captures information from UK party manifestos on energy and climate change.  This allows us to see comparisons of energy and climate change policy, including key...