News and Updates

UNESCO is sidelining its flagging ESD project.  Although its website recently had this headline: Education for Sustainable Development placed firmly on the COP21 map ... it was followed by this: "The critical role of education in climate change was given the stamp...

Flush from the triumph of its first UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD, UNESCO has issued a second call for nominations for the next round (2016) where three lucky winners will receive $US 50,000.  It was awarded for the first time in November 2015 to organizations...

The February edition of SEEd's newsletter contains what it says is a case study of the sustainable schools alliance [SSA].  It begins ... "This case study is not a single initiative nor a one organisation programme. Rather is has been...

Environmentalists whom I know tend to want to claim that much of the UK's recent pro-environment legislation 'n' regulation stems from the EU rather than from our own parliaments.  I don't know enough to adjudicate on that view, but it...

AUDE, the Association for University Directors of Estates, has launched a HE Sector Sustainability Evaluating Methodology  – known colloquially as the Green Scorecard. AUDE says that the intention of the scorecard is to "improve and promote sustainability, reflecting and demonstrating progress and...

I was unaware that Google had acquired a parent company – called Alphabet.  It's a big umbrella under which Google can nestle its many current manifestations, including what it calls its moonshot projects – think driverless cars.  Happily, there's a recent...

It's off to Stonehenge tonight for a series of brief talks arising from the University of Buckingham's Archeology MA class of 2015. The topics are varied: An assessment of the evidence for large animal movement and hunting strategies within the Stonehenge landscape...

WWF-UK sent an email to its supporters last week saying, " ... building on the success of our film last Valentine’s day, please watch the following poignant short (5 minutes) film with Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake.  It is based...

I mentioned the other day that the Centre for Environmental Education [CEE] in Ahmedabad had held a conference in January on Education as a Driver of Sustainable Development Goals, and that this had produced a plan for action.  As Eliza Doolittle might have...

Down to Earth [DtoE] is a project based on the Gower that started in 2005 and which provides education programmes supporting young people and adults from very different backgrounds.  It says is a "learner-centred approach centred developing well-being and a diverse...