News and Updates

I've been reading the research report on outdoor learning recently published by the Blagrave Trust, UCL, the IoL, and Giving Evidence: The Existing Evidence-Base about the Effectiveness of Outdoor Learning. It will not make comfortable reading for anyone who has been banging on...

The NUS published two new reports this week.  One is a national status report on university investments in the fossil fuel industry (based on Freedom of Information [FoI] requests); the other is a report on student and staff attitudes towards...

The focus of the 2015 TEESNet Conference was Monitoring Education for Global Citizenship: A Contribution to Debate.  I didn't go as it seems to me that trying to introduce EGC is just as bad as encouraging ESD – that is, it diverts...

I wrote a while back about a meeting I went to about the GEEP – pronounced jeep – the Global Environmental Education Partnerships.  The website has now been launched. The idea is that GEEP is a platform where people can learn...

I dreamed the other night, in that random way you do, that I was taking tea with Mr Trump – and that I upset him by what I said, and rendered him speechless.  Not sure life can get much better than this....

I got this the other day from the env-pol-theory Google group, and thought I should share it: We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts by March 15th, 2016 for possible inclusion into an edited collection seeking to explore the world of...

There was a message on the EE Maillist the other day, ostensibly from Brian Waswala at UNEP's Environmental Education and Training Unit in Nairobi.  It said "the Biodiversity Guide, supported by UNEP and GUPES, are asking for case studies from institutions" in the following...

This is the title of a two-page article in the Economist in early January.  It's about Ethiopia and how the country's doing these days – despite the government – and how much better off (in almost every sense) its people might...

The NAEE blog has commented on a Washington Post article which shows the proportion of electricity generated from different sources in the USA.  There is an interactive map which shows the amount of electricity generated in each State for the...

Here's part of the text of the opening address by Fred van Leeuwen at a seminar organised by Education International in Paris during COP21. "This week all eyes are transfixed on this conference, on the future of earth’s climate.  And that...