News and Updates

In his latest blog posting, Arjen Wals shares some of his recent experiences at the hands of UNECO editors, and looks back both at Rio+20, and Rio -20 in Stockholm.  He notes ... I was invited to Rio to present...

EAUC has submitted a well-argued response to the QAA about its marginalisation of sustainability in the new UK quality code.  See this post for a comment on the very poor fist QAA made of all this. EAUC begins ... In...

I once got into trouble during a talk at a school by suggesting that they should try to reduce the amount of stuff they recycled, and that cutting waste in the first place was a better project.  It fell on...

The Guardian last Friday carried a story from the CBI about the current contribution of green growth to the UK economy.  The headline was: Choice between 'green or growth' is a false one, CBI chief says. The CBI's chief executive,...

This is not my claim; I'm just passing it on.  It comes from Walter Leal (Filho) and describes the forthcoming book: Sustainable Development at Universities: new horizons – edited by Walter Leal.  This arises from the "World Symposium on Sustainable...

If you enter "environmental education" into a UK National Archive search you come up with 20 entries that start in 1972 with items about EE in Bournemouth and in Doncaster.  Prominent entries relate to the Belgrade and Tbilisi conferences.  Most...

I was going to write about the latest IAU Horizons magazine and its welcome (if overdue) focus on the contribution of higher education to sustainable development (actually, the focus was mostly on ESD) – and, sadly, on its awful proof-reading,...

I'm told it will soon be Wiltshire Council policy that all pedestrians in the county are to be kept at least 50 metres away from cars travelling at 50 kph, and farther away from those travelling at higher speeds.  There...

A pleasure yesterday to be part of a South west Learning for Sustainability Coalition team welcoming visitors from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership in Tel Aviv to the University of Bath. The Center is: "dedicated to building...

I received an email Network Link newsletter from UNESCO UK the other day, and was pleased to see that it contained a number of references to education, including two focused on sustainability.  One was about ESD in Practice: To raise...