News and Updates

This is from Reuters: Monday 6 June 2016 15.23 BST "EU nations have refused to back a limited extension of the pesticide glyphosate’s use, threatening withdrawal of Monsanto’s Roundup and other weedkillers from shelves if no decision is reached by the end of...

The National Farmers Union thinks that the UK should remain in the EU, although a majority of farmers seem to think otherwise, if a recent poll for the Farmers Weekly is to be believed.  It seems that many think that subsidies outside the...

Sitting in the garden, on a rare perfect summer's day, along comes a female beautiful demoiselle to make it all ever more so.  

What has the EU ever done for sustainability?  That's a question the NUS asked recently.  Its answer begins: "Back in April NUS National Conference passed policy to campaign to remain in Europe.  Students’ unions play a vital role in making...

The GEEP event last week ended with a reception at @Bristol hosted by the UK's National Association for Environmental Education [NAEE] – of which (it's no secret!) I am the current President. It was a great success, and it was particularly...

From UNEP, Nairobi, 23–27 May 2016 United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme, second session Investing in human capacity for sustainable development through environmental education and training The United Nations Environment Assembly, Recalling the Global Action Programme...

Today is the last day of the GEEP meeting in Bristol, and we probably all felt that some progress was made yesterday in setting goals and reaching an understanding of what it's possible to achieve. Looking at it from an...

I'm still GEEPing in Bristol.  I've been thinking about the 'country needs survey' I wrote (asking a number of people about it) before it all began.  Has anything changed the UK since that time, I wondered. Here are links to...

I'm spending today – a UK holiday – bunkered with environmental educators from across the globe at a GEEP executive / steering committee meeting in Bristol. We're talking about GEEP's goals, objectives, etc – again.  I had to remind myself that I...

The OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, has written an article for the BBC about his brave 'n' bold plans to have a focus on "global competence" in forthcoming PISA exams.  Good luck, I thought when I read it.  This is a...