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Green Scorecard – no data yet
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting rather impatiently for the launch of the Green Scorecard, and we're told the other day by EAUC that this has been delayed for "technical issues". Happily, though, these are being "worked on"....
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What should academics be promoting?
I've been coming across a lot of articles recently that seem to take it for granted that universities, and the academics within them, should be "promoting sustainable development". Sometimes this is hedged around with caveats and thoughts of a more...
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Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature's migrants?
The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change – not only because this has been seen as a contributor to...
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Lighting up pathways for a new world
Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location. This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British. No, not Ibiza – Gibraltar. The breathless strapline for this event (I'll not be going) is: Universities as Beacons of...
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Does renewable energy need subsidies?
This is a controversial issue as the UK government unwinds the subsidies available for the installation of renewable energy, although subsidies for coal (etc) remain in place. A new Circulate report explores the issue. It begins: "The short answer to this...
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The trouble with GDP
Whilst everyone seems to acknowledge that there are problems with GDP as a measure of (changing) economic activity, there are no clear ways out of the difficulty. For example, whilst pollution may be, generally speaking, a bad thing, it can...
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Sharing Cities: a case for being truly smart and sustainable
On Tuesday 10 May, Julian Agyeman, from Tufts University in the USA, will be speaking at the Watershed in Bristol on: Sharing Cities. He'll be exploring his latest book, explaining how the concept of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart...
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World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the SDGs
The World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be held in Manchester from the 5th to 7th of April, 2017. It is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, and the...
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How the west was lost – and why we need it back
There are some journalists whose work I always try to read, and Timothy Garton Ash is one of them. I find his civilised, liberal, historically-grounded analysis of contemporary issues valuable in my own sense-making. He wrote at the end of last...
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Princeton academic publishes his alternative CV
The Guardian reports that Johannes Haushofer, who is assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, has published an alternative CV of his career failures up to now. Publishing an anti-cv like this might, of course, just result in his adding...
