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To parliament the other day, for the launch (over a good lunch) of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education...

To parliament the other day, for the launch of a report by the Aldersgate Group, who say they are “leaders for a sustainable economy”.  The report is: Skills for a New Economy: a paradigm shift in education and learning to...

I subscribe (no cost: what a bargain) to the Daly Post which is endlessly guaranteed to provide different perspectives on matters sustainable.  The most recent was on population – or, rather, populations.  It begins ... The population problem should be...

Alan Reid did a wonderful job recently in a posting to the EE Mailbase: making links to all those EE declarations / resolutions / reports / charters / strategies /  from 1972 onwards.  Reading the early ones reminds us how little...

This was the reason that the today's Today programme put forward for the government's decision to put off its useless slaughter of badgers till the new year.  But this idea is ridiculous.  There has been no boom; no massive increase...

Cynics might expect a post with this title to be blank, but not at all.  I met a man in a university coffee queue last week who was, whilst not overly-effusive, quietly grateful to Mr Gove and the DfE.  This...

I remember going to the launch of the East Midlands Region Centre of Expertise [RCE], way back in 2007 (where I remember giving one of the worst talks of my life).  Since then, a number of RCEs have been set...

For the past couple of years, the (almost wholly) admirable NUS (supported by the HEA) has carried out research which showed that a majority of first year university students say that they want to learn about sustainability through their degree,...

Learn from Nature has a link to an Bill Maher's US TV show where Bill McKibbon, and his host, set about a couple of climate change deniers.   BMcK had some great lines: his natural capital question about Iowa, for...

Softish liberals usually think that nutritional standards for school food are an obvious social good, whereas many traditional (large L) liberals would be likely to think that parents might take more responsibility for their children's welfare than many seem to...