News and Updates

I have been humming and hawing (and then, much worse, humming again) for a while now about whether I should buy a more modern smart phone.  My phone seems to have developed a form of early on-set dementia and is...

This is what EAUC had to say recently about universities and the SDGs: Universities and colleges recognise our unique role in fostering and empowering youth as a force for change, and in fulfilling the urgent need for new knowledge, rigorous debate and...

I said the other day that it was hard to understand why so many people had a positive view of the UN and its agencies; but is it? Could it be that it’s the aims and purposes of the UN...

Well done Mrs M (NB, this is our Mrs M, not the somewhat recently-chastened, once-saintly, "Angie") for telling the UN (and its myriad competing agencies) what's wrong with its bloated, wasteful, inefficient and ineffective self.  Building on the most recent...

It is easy to see why UNESCO thinks that ESD has relevance to the SDGs; after all, they both are about "sustainable development", and a straightforward calculus would have it that quality ESD contributes not only to an understanding of...

EAUC is urging us all to sign the pledge.  It says: A pioneering global initiative to embed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) across post-16 education has now been launched.  We are calling on your institution to sign and commit to the SDG...

Uncosted externalities are seen as a huge problem these days, and the issue must have been around for a long while, if not for ever.  The Economist had a series of articles last week in which externalities  were explored along...

As I scrolled down the front page of actnowforee.org/learn I was startled to come across 4 audio clips of me talking about the Tbilisi declaration – and then I remembered being interviewed one afternoon about it all.  I had quite forgotten....

The actnowforee website has a 4.5 minute voiced-overed video / animation presentation that covers a number of points made by Bill Stapp in a report on the Tbilisi conference.  You can see/hear it here , and it's good to hear these...

actnowforee.org is a campaign that has been developed by GEEP – the Global Environmental Education Partnership – which, you'll remember I am involved with.  Although I've not been going to meetings lately, I've done a fair bit of textual scrutiny....