News and Updates

An enjoyable day at Bicton College in Devon today.  The SWLSC 'Coalition' held its first seminar of the 2011/12 year with the theme of 'beyond the KPI'.  This used a collaborative format where 6 of us gave short (5 to...

Thanks to the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, you can listen in to some of the key figures at COP17 in Durban.  It's on You Tube.  Head of UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, kicked it off.

I spotted this on the Taylor & Francis website Typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, because of an increase in electricity consumption, according to new research published in the ‘Building Research...

I need to add my welcome and congratulations to xxxxxx (I don't know either).  As yesterday's ESD Project e-newsletter notes: This highly motivated and engaging individual will have the pleasure of coordinating and/or leading on the rest of this year's...

I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global’s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...

Next Easter, classics Professor, Edith Hall, is moving across London, from Royal Holloway to King's in a move prompted, we're told, by her present university's reaction to funding changes.  The Observer, today, carried some detail of the ins and outs...

Saudi Arabia is one of two countries that have declined to endorse a report on the Green Climate Fund, one of the few ideas, you'll recall, that was spawned in 2009 in the UN meeting that became known as Nopenhagen....

Now that Saif al-Islam has been found skulking in the desert, maybe the LSE will be able to get its PhD back.  Celebrations all round.

The Economist carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the Isle of Green.  However, as an irregular traveller on the Red Jet service from Southampton to Cowes,...

A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities.  What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...