Talks and Presentations

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...

At the Management International Conference in Portorož, I listened to a confident presentation about cradle to cradle ideas by Albin Kälin, CEO of EPEA Switzerland.  I suppose I should say Cradle to Cradle® as this phrase has been registered.  Anyway. EPEA...

I'm jus returned from Slovenia where I gave a keynote at the 12th Management International Conference, MIC, in Portorož. The title of the conference was Managing Sustainability?, and I was asked, in particular, to talk about the ? in the title...

A good day at the Hampshire Collegiate School on Friday, opening their splendid new learning outside the classroom facilities.  What a wonderful setting for the addition of a building that is not only nicely designed and constructed (by their own...

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...

This was the rather puzzling sub-heading to the First Biennial Lecture on Sustainability at the University last night, given by Atkins' Director of Sustainability and former CEO, Keith Clarke.  The actual title was: Sustainability and Climate Change. What attracted me,...

There was a good turn out for Andy Dobson last night and his talk stimulated wide-ranging comment and questions.  He compared (dis)incentives and nudges with what he has called sustainability citizenship in his recent Green House paper.  The former are...

I have just watched the latest, rather breathless, RSAnimate by Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain.  Some myths debunked, and some ironies exposed.  Not sure which bits of my brain I was using, but I shall have to watch it...

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...

A good day in Birmingham on Saturday chairing NAEE's AGM.   I wrote this recently for an Association News Bulletin: The argument that education programmes should help (young) people to have a critical understanding of the relationship between the environment quality...