News and Updates

It began badly with a trip on Last Great Western's new trainset.  I was not impressed.  I travelled from Bath to Bristol; by Keynsham, my bum ached and by Temple Meads, so did my back.  LGW has taken a cheap...

The Journal of Environmental Education is almost 50 years old, and its history is the history of environmental education more broadly.  It's now looking for a new editor. For almost 30 years, until Environmental Education Research came along in 1995 to...

If you missed the launch of The World We'll leave Behind the other week, never fear, as you can catch up with it here c/o Bath's panopto recording of its seminars. Sadly, you'll just have to visualise the powerpoint, especially...

Here's the letter that Oxfam's Paul Langley [Head of Public Engagement & Education] sent to all the teachers on its maillist: Dear [INSERT NAME] / Colleague You will have seen the devastating reports about Oxfam.  It has been extremely distressing for...

I wrote the other day about the witness statement I've given to a session on the SDGs at Atlantic College later this month, and this prompted a reasoned response from Morgan Phillips.  Rather than leave this buried as a footnote,...

Green Stories is a writing competition about what a sustainable society might be like.  Further details are here, and I was immediately tempted to nominate John Huckle's Bedford 2045 which I mentioned the other day.  Surely there are no better examples around, I thought, but then...

What do you make of this: "Children entering school in 2018 will need to abandon the notion that resources are limitless and are there to be exploited; they will need to value common prosperity, sustainability and well-being. They will need to...

Thanks to Jamie Agombar for pointing me to an HEFCE blog about generic critical thinking and communicating skills.  Although mainly about HE and employment, the post seems to have wider resonance, and these sort of skills are at the heart...

Mrs M had her day in the highest German federal administrative court last week over the great emission scandal.  Like Macavity, she wasn't there in person, of course, but her policies were – and they lost. The result is that German...

At the launch of The World We'll Leave Behind last week, Paul asked those attending what sort of topics would have been included in such a book written in the 1780s which were just as 'interesting times' as ours are...