News and Updates

Rostov-on-Don, April 1st 2014 This morning's RIA news agency bulletin carries an article about a dispute in a Crimean bar over the meaning of ESD.  Here's the gist of the story: An argument over ESD theory ended in a man being shot.  Police...

The EU Research and Innovation programme, Horizon 2020, has funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).  It comprises various research areas, one of which is YOUNG-4-2015: The young as a driver of social change. This is how the descriptor...

There were two events yesterday competing for my attention; sadly, I could go to neither, but I was able to follow parts of each on Twitter. One was an Ellen MacArthur Foundation conference in Bradford on Rethinking the Future [...

… and they’re doing it now.  Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability implementation group is up and running; its membership and terms of reference are here Learning for Sustainability – the report of the One Planet Schools working group was published in...

… and Bath's digital team promise it will be even better when they've finished the upgrade.  I hope that applies to the content as well.

Two great stories this week about Quality meeting representatives of the common (wo)man. One such was the Federation of Cumbria Commoners which was holding its AGM at Newton Rigg agricultural college near Penrith, where they encountered environmentalist George Monbiot (Stowe, Brasenose...

The issue of the BBC and its search for balance on coverage of climate change was explored recently in the Guardian, with this owing at least some debt to skepticalscience.  It seems to me that the BBC’s problem lies in its...

A video report on the BBC, reports extraordinary goings-on in North London, where the tax-payer funded Yesodey Hatorah Girls' School has been removing questions on evolution from GCSE science papers before their students could answer them. The examination board in question,...

I've written before about our own domestic solar pv generation (most recently here), which is now some 33 months into its life.  To put our modest production (an average of around 11 units / day) into perspective, the UK's installed...

I'm writing this on the last train from London (last night).  Just been to the Guardian University Awards evening (celebrating excellence, creativity and innovation). Jamie Agombar, the NUS's ethical and environmental manager (and all round sustainability champion), was nominated in...