News and Updates

I watched two videos yesterday.  The first was the latest communications output from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; the second a promotional video from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in anticipation of its 50th year celebrations in 2012.  Regular readers will know...

I had the rare privilege on Friday of listening to UK and US architects talking together about school design with sustainability in mind – not that the US folk talk about sustainability or carbon reduction all that much, not when...

With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...

It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the CAT, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness.  This is the...

At long last, I am about to visit the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth – I town I can pronounce (sort of), but not yet spell.  As you know, CAT is ... concerned with the search for globally sustainable,...

To Bath today to listen to Keele University's Andy Dobson talk on Environmental Behaviour Change: incentives, 'nudge', and citizenship as part of the I-SEE seminar series.  This will be based on his recent publication Sustainability Citizenship for Green House, the (relatively)...

I have been trying to follow the rather arcane discussion around the new reading test for 6 year olds.  This is from the BBC: The government's new reading test for six-year-olds is a waste of money that will not identify...

This time, from the Higher Education Academy, consulting across the sector on its strategic direction for the next five years.  After some persistent nudging from SHED-SHARE and others, I gave it a go.  I thought the questions sensible and apt....

To the RGS on Thursday night for a talk by Seattle futurist guru Alex Steffen, and a conversation between him and Ellen MacArthur. According to a NY Times blog, Steffen is a "designing optimist, [who] lays out the blueprint for a successful...

The benefit of belonging to the EAUC Member list is not just that you are kept up to date with issues that universities are trying (and often succeeding) to resolve, but also that eagle-eyed members share interesting events that they...