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I'm watching part of the recent White House summit on Environmental Education on You Tube.  Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia McNutt to the Panel on 21st Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental...

Probably, I'd say, and the bloke sitting on this rock certainly looks as if he's running that risk. Thanks to Learn from Nature for alerting me to this long list of possible reasons why contact with nature is a good thing....

In a mailing to the SHED-SHARE network last week, Manchester's Adele Aubrey wrote: "... Daisaku Ikeda actually proposed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.  ... Ikeda believes the decade of education for sustainable development should be promoted with the...

Earth Hour was on 31 March 2012, 2030, and was something of a global phenomenon with, we're told, hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights for one hour across the planet – something we were urged to watch...

Paris, April 1 This morning, Dr Renata O'Gorman, a spokesperson for the Chairperson of the UNESCO Executive Board, announced that UNESCO's General Conference had taken the decision to end the UN ESD Decade at the end of August 2012 – two...

Think Global reports today on DFID plans to fund a Global Learning Programme for England which will “increase and improve the teaching and learning, at Key Stages 2 and 3, of issues related to global poverty”. The programme will run,...

It seems that the government's National Planning Policy Framework now has sustainable development's being seen in terms of a (local) collective interest.  This is a quote from the Telegraph's on-line reporting of the 5 principles of reform: They establish a...

The Wiltshire Times is reporting the success of a local primary school [ Sutton Veny ] in reaching the national finals of the 'Climate Week Challenge'.   The school’s entry was designed is based on an idea for a Friendly Cow...

EAUC has endorsed the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative for Rio+20, and is clearly pleased at being asked: The EAUC is delighted to announce that it has joined a number of other international organisations to officially endorse the Higher Education Sustainability...

Sustainable Development in the European Union is the 2011 monitoring report on the EU's sustainable development Strategy (EU SDS).  This is the fourth report charting progress in the implementation of the 2006 strategy which describes how the EU will more...