News and Updates

If you're booked to go to the 2017 NAAEE conference in Puerto Rico, you can follow the latest information on the NAAEE Newsroom.  This is their bulletin updated: September 21, 2017, 5:00 PM ET Letter to conference and Research Symposium...

After "more than thirty years of successful collaboration with various partners from all over", the ENSI network is closing down.  The ENSI Board said that owing to the decreasing number of full member countries and the consequent lack of resources it...

I had a nice email the other day from Derek Parody, the Project Director (A303 Stonehenge), assuring me that he had read my comments about the Stonehenge tunnel, and was going ahead.    It read: Thank you for your response...

It's almost time once again for the World’s Largest Lesson which sets out to introduce "the Sustainable Development Goals to children and young people everywhere and unites them in action".  The WLL website says "17 Global Goals to achieve these 3...

Whatever has happened to the HEFCE Sustainable Development Plan?  Do you know?  If there has been an update recently, I've missed it.  There was a clear commitment to producing updates in the Sustainable Development policy framework document [2014/30] – see page 21.  That...

Wherever you go – to the shops, the pub, the cinema – there's seemingly no escaping the sustainable development goals.  But these are often invoked to add some spurious relevance to whatever was going to happen anyway.  There was a...

Congratulations to Quinn Runkle of the NUS for making it into NAAEE's 30 under 30.  NAAEE says: Started in 2016, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and this year, adding support from the U.S. Forest Service and the Global...

There's a new UNESCO report [*] that sets out to offer reflections on "an aspect of Education for Sustainable Development" by the UNESCO / UNTWIN Chairs. Although it's sub-titled "a decade of progress", the editors' Foreword gives the game away.  In...

Today’s blog is by Steve Martin: There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an...

I was away when the great storm blew up in Google around the memo written by James Damore, and his subsequent sacking, and I had to rely on the various musings of the liberal right and liberal and illiberal left...