New Publications

Last month SEEd organised a letter to Michael Gove.  This is a response from Joan Walley, MP, Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) ... To the Signatories of the ‘Keep Sustainability in the National Curriculum Objectives’...

In 2012, Defra proposed a new set of sustainable development indicators, intended to measure national progress on key economic, social and environmental issues over time and complement the National well-being measures published by the Office for National Statistics.  There was...

As I noted in a PS to my original blog about weec7, the event culminated in the Call of Marrakech, which ENSI desribes as ... "giving express to concerns and visions for the future of Environmental Education and Education for...

Here's a cheery video from Cambridge looking at the impact of one of their green initiatives.  But where are the academics? If you follow the on-screen credits, and freeze the last screen, you see who's involved – and not so...

I commented earlier in the year on the new Stonehenge – well, the new super-English-Heritage-at-its-very-best visitor centre, which I think we should be calling the Neocentre.  As it nears completion, I'm told by the ever-reliable and insightful, World Heritage Trails...

The letter in question is to the HEA from Hefce CEO, Sir Alan Langlands, and concerns funding arrangements for the HEA for 2013 / 14.  It's 11 pages long.  You can read it here. Sustainability / ESD / sustainable development get...

In February 2011, the government launched its vision for mainstreaming sustainable development in relation to the operation of its buildings and estates, including the goods and services that it buys and the policies it makes.  Defra has now reported on progress...

I recently finished a report for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on its education work since launch in 2010.  Titled,  Ahead of the Curve, it can be downloaded here.  The report is much more colourful and graphic, in the design sense,...

As I noted recently, I have a forthcoming paper in the Curriculum Journal, in a special issue on education and sustainability in the UK.   So has Ken Webster, I'm pleased to say.  His contribution is a poke in the ribs for those...

Just when you've getting tired of waiting for a half-decent book about higher education and sustainability to come along, like London buses, two of them arrive; and, just like London buses, they're from the same company. Routledge (Abingdon) has released...