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It began with a 17 hour journey with the turning Earth across 7 time zones: Wiltshire to Beijing: door to door.  Once there, the days were ok – the nights not. It was rather fine weather, from a sunnyist point...

You have to go all the way to Beijing to meet a man from Manitoba with radical insights into education and sustainability, but it was worth it, for this Leninesque perspective: Sustainable Development  = ESD + Hydroelectricity This is tough...

A new campaign c/o The Art of Positive Change: A new social media campaign, launched as a result of the Powered by Nature Awards – an initiative of IUCN CEC and ALCOA – encourages people to turn off their lights and...

A while back, I received this email: A message from the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Secretariat Hello everyone, The monitoring and evaluation process for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) is designed to...

Later this month, UNESCO’s governing bodies will consider a draft of a Global Action Programme [GAP] on ESD with a view to forwarding it to the UN General Assembly in 2014.  The plan is that the GAP will replace the Decade, and...

I understand that the QAAHEA's soon-to-be-revealed ESD guidance document for universities will set out over 50 new learning outcomes.  That is, it will specify 50+ additional things that graduates should be able to know, understand and be able to do after...

This was the thrust of an FT Soapbox piece the other day.  It said: Management education must produce leaders who can lead companies in line with UN development goals.  In particular, the article arued that ... "Business school deans need to...

The English Learning and Sustainability Alliance [ELSA] has contributed to Hefce’s review of the UK's Higher Education Academy. ELSA brings together England’s key stakeholder groups with interests in learning and sustainability in order to inform national debates and influence policy...

Anyone enquiring, as a colleague did recently, about what England's Department for Education is 'doing' about sustainable development, gets a response like this: The Department for Education is committed to sustainable development.  As set out in our current Business Plan, covering...

Thanks to Geoff Rose for pointing me towards Arizona State University's ambitions to be a new american university.  ASU's website says this about its objectives ... ASU is a force that creates meaningful change. ASU has changed the objectives for...