News and Updates

This is not an example of my rather tardy New Year predictions, but the title of a recent article in the Onion – and thanks to Alan Reid for pointing it out as I've not been keeping up with the...

0.679 (don’t you just love this precision) is Environmental Education Research’s impact factor in the education & educational research category of the Social Science Citation index which gives it a ranking of 88/184 – not bad for a new-comer, and...

These should more properly be the first snowdrops of 2012, I suppose, but given that they are in bloom at the University in December, that seems premature – or precocious, maybe – possibly like the snowdrops themselves.  Some will cite...

I'm grateful to Nick Jones for the news that M&S has opened its first international sustainable learning store.  Sadly, this is in India, so I'll not be popping along any time soon, but I would were it a bit nearer...

I posted recently on Saudi attempts to get hold of some of the green cash that's to be given to countries that are adversely affected by the world's carbon-reduction efforts.  This, in the House of Saud's case, is to compensate...

In what I should confess is a desultory fashion, I have been following the outpourings from COP17 in Durban, and this caught my eye: Second Committee Approves Text on Harmony with Nature As my eyes are drawn to texts on...

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...