News and Updates

There was a nice blog on the NAEE website last week about the Learning Outside the Classroom [LOtC] Mark.  This is a UK national accreditation for schools which, NAEE says: "recognises existing provision and also assists schools to develop LOtC further." Schools...

The Second International Conference of the UNESCO Chair for Education, Training and Research into Sustainable Development took place at the Bordeaux Institut National Polytechnique last month.  The conference: What strategy 2016-2019 for education, training and research into sustainable development brought representatives...

The Circulate newsletter from late February has an article on metaphors "A circular economy requires us to fundamentally change our metaphors, our subconscious assumptions, about the way our economy works, the role banks and money play, how we think about the resources...

It is probably a commonly-held view amongst those with an interest in sustainability that the world's financial system is part of the problem.  That may be the end of any consensus, however, as arguments abound about what to do about...

I wrote the other day about the latest DfE rebuttal of the idea that it should do anything to encourage a focus on sustainability in schools.  However, I think this response seems to go beyond the usual answer which was all about...

The indefatigable Chris Southwood (of learning 2B sustainable) has been writing to the DfE again about a focus on sustainability in schools, and if you're a DfE civil servant, how apt it must be these days to work in Sanctuary Buildings.  Below,...

Members of the REAL Research Collective (RRC), whilst on a recent study visit to Dove Cottage in Grasmere (UK), stumbled on a previously unseen Wordsworth manuscript that is a revision to his influential poem: The Tables Turned. As you will no doubt...

Well, maybe not according to a UN paper that's currently out for comment.  Mind you, as ever, it will depend on what the questions are, crucially, on where the pass-mark is, and, probably, on who gets to set both of...

I was part of a creative small group at the West Midlands Sustainable Schools network before Easter.  We were asked for our views on what we might do in relation to supporting the work of the network. This is what...

I recorded, back in July 2011, the fact that the power station on our roof, which I term, Semington A, had reached the giddy total output of 1 MW.  It took 60 days, and as I noted back then, it...