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The presentations in the second Symposium session were: Research in Higher Education for Sustainable Development – Current Trends and Approaches Matthias Barth (University of Applied Sciences, Ostwestfalen-Lippe) & Marco Rieckmann (University of Vechta) Implementing ESE in education systems. Researching the...

After a gap of many years, I am at the European Conference on Educational Research in Istanbul.  The pull of this year's event was the first meeting of a new grouping: Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education [ESE].  Another anachrocnym, I...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has initiated a number of processes to help devise the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will maxise benefit for humanity during the years 2015-2030.  One of these, the sustainable development solutions network (SDSN) has identified ten...

August was a creating month in our house.  I laboured over the construction of a book chapter, and my wife over the re-creation of a 1930s dress. Hers is in silk georgette; mine in duller stuff in every sense. The...

... carried a piece by Dan O'Neill recently on a post-growth economy in France. I’ve recently returned from France’s first high-level “beyond growth” event, entitled An Innovative Society for the 21st Century. The conference, which included five separate sessions for the 250...

Years ago, I saw a grainy VHS video that explored the wide range of primary schools that existed in Rhode Island.  What struck me was their diversity and how parents could choose a school to fit with how they thought...

Click here, to read Herman Daly on The Fracking of the Limits to Growth.  Here's a brief taste: The first Woodlands Conference in 1975 was a great success.  Its theme was “Alternatives to Growth.”  In addition to the Meadows, speakers...

The ever-alert Learn from Nature pointed me to an article in a recent Observer on how the rate of climate change is likely to outstrip nature's speed of adaptation.  The article reports a paper in Ecology Letters, an on-line journal,...

PlantsOut! is a pressure group formed to resist the steady rise in non-English plants found in the countryside, gardens, planters, window boxes and vases generally. Today, their website announces a new partnership with UKIP to resist the flood of Bulgarian,...

Those of us following Kelly Teamey and Udi Mandel's progress round the globe via their blog will not have been particularly informed by last week's piece in the THE, even though we might have been a little bit disappointed at...