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The report on the St George's House consultation on the SDGs contains three sets of challenges, and I wrote about the ones to government the other day.  I was somewhat sceptical as to whether anyone would take any notice. But...

I had an email the other day from UNESCO's representative on Earth. This included a couple of policy briefs that have been developed through the Global Action Programme (GAP).  The email said that these were the key messages: As a means...

As you know from all those posts about the sustainable development goals late last year, there was a St George's House, Windsor, consultation in December on the SDGs and young people.  St George's said: We already know that a number...

This is the title of a discussion paper that Susan Brown, from the University of Manchester, has written for Steady State Manchester [SSM]. This is how SSM summarises the paper: Argues that a learning renaissance is required to achieve a Steady State...

There will be a couple (at least) of comments this week on John Huckle's classic text, Bedford 2045.  The first (which deserves to be read without any comment from me), follows. I'd only ask you to have two questions in your...

Thanks to the NAEE weekly round-up for alerting me to EO Wilson's venture: Nature Needs Half. The idea here is that nature needs sufficient space if it is to function properly for the benefit of all life on Earth.  This means, they...

Question: When does 75% mean not only 'not a lot', but misrepresents what's happening? Answer: When it's part of an EAUC presentation of a sustainability survey. The other day, the third annual ‘Sustainability in Education’ report from the National Union...

This is a first for me: I have been suspected as a bot by WordPress as I tried to post a response on my friend Richard Jurin's new blog. Richard's first post was: As my first blog post, I will...

I wrote the other day about the Cambridge report about business and the sustainable development goals, and I referred in particular to Figure 2.1: Six outcomes and 10 interconnected tasks which has finance, business and governtment at the core of...

I wrote the other day about NAEE's Annual review which led me to search for those reviews carried out by the Council for Environmental Education (CEE) in times past.  It's easy to find one c/o the ERIC archive: ED412076: The Annual...