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Encounters on empty classroom day
I was on the Shropshire hills for empty classroom day [ECD] this year, and stumbled across a year happy-looking 6 group from Hertfordshire. Rather splendidly, they were having nothing to do with ECD as they were enjoying ECW: empty classroom week...
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America First: education for sustainability benchmarks
The eponymous Jaimie Cloud, President of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, sent this message out the other day to her ESD/ EfS / LSD / SDE / etc collaborators on a Benchmarking project. She wrote: Dear Authors and Reviewers, I am...
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A coal-free day
I was pleased to see that the UK didn't use coal to generate electricity for a full day last month – April 21st. Climate Action said that this was "the first time since the Industrial Revolution" which is hardly the case, although...
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Higher Education for Sustainable Development – a review
Another paper! Is this a trend? This time it's my review for EER of Kerry Shephard's Higher Education for Sustainable Development [Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; ISBN: 978-1-137-54840-5]. You will find it here. This is how it starts – and ends. When I...
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FACE and LEAF
I see that NAEE had an article the other day about the merger of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) and FACE (Farming and Countryside Education), and the combined charity is looking for a Director, Education & Public Engagement who will … “lead and execute an...
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EAUC Next Generation Sustainability Strategy and Structure
I got a report from EAUC last week: Next Generation Sustainability Strategy and Structure: Whole-Institution Approaches to Sustainability in Universities and Colleges. This was the second sentence: "We work to reposition the agenda at the heart of the leadership and structure of sector...
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The Greener Jobs Alliance
The Greener Jobs Alliance has published its top 10 Election Demands: Keep the Climate Change Act 2008. Stick to the UK’s legally binding commitments to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 as a minimum. Ensure that UK...
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The week before WEEC in Canada
The programme for the WEEC event in Vancouver in September is becoming clearer, and credit is obviously due to the organisers for taking Canada's rich cultural heritage seriously – at least as far as keynote speakers are concerned. You can...
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Australia, education and the SDGs
I mentioned the other day that the Australians had had an SDG summit last year. Here are some of things the report had to say about education: Page 5 Universities and the academic sector have a role to play through...
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The first global citizens?
I've been reading the latest report from the Varkey Foundation on what Generation Z thinks about life, the universe, Brexit, etc. It's here. Some of it is concerning: only 17% of young people report good overall physical wellbeing in 16 out...
