News and Updates

I've been catching up with Eco-school stats for England.   The Untidy Britain Group has a helpful league table showing the top twenty local authorities where Eco-school registrations are compared with the number of schools in a particular area.  Unsurprisingly, perhaps,...

Absolutely, says PricewaterhouseCoopers [pcw] in their latest Low Carbon Index Report.  This is the Report's Foreword by Leo Johnson, pcw Partner for sustainability and climate change: It’s time to plan for a warmer world. The annual Low Carbon Economy Index centres...

... who think that the UK government has a clear and coherent energy policy despite all the evidence around them?  Are there those who really believe that carbon targets will be met, or that the lights will stay on, or...

I watched this the other night as it promised to be Brian Cox-free.  It was, and I was impressed with what went on: populist, but serious-ish.  I actually learned something – about Einstein's work on fridges. The kitchen experiment to...

Let's face it, Mr Gove's cunning plan to sack 1000 of his Department's staff is probably not Maoist in intent, though it is in terms of zeal.   He is unlikely to have thought to himself one morning over his...

A while back, I posted something on the SHED blog about the 2009 report: One Wales: One Planet and a question Jane Davidson asks in a recent lecture: "So what would a sustainable Wales look like?"  This seems to be...

Last  Friday the BBC reported on a leaked government paper about the revisions to the curriculum in England.  The BBC begins ... A draft copy of the new secondary curriculum for England, leaked to the Times Educational Supplement (TES), has drawn...

I am told that "almost all schools in Scotland are now registered with the government-supported Eco Schools scheme, with nearly 50% having achieved a ‘Green Flag'".  The clue here, I suspect, is "government-sponsored", with school leaders carefully reading between the...

Well; up to a point, Lord Copper. So says Yvo de Boer of the UN's next climate change report.  UNDPWatch says ... THE next United Nations climate report will ''scare the wits out of everyone'' and should provide the impetus...

UNESCO has announced its 2014 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development: Learning Today for a Sustainable Future. There are Stakeholder Meetings in Okayama from 4 to 8 November 2014, with the conference proper in Aichi-Nagoya from 10 to 12 November.  UN...