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Sustainable Schools Alliance case study
The February edition of SEEd's newsletter contains what it says is a case study of the sustainable schools alliance [SSA]. It begins ... "This case study is not a single initiative nor a one organisation programme. Rather is has been...
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Will the Brexodus be going through the Brexit?
Environmentalists whom I know tend to want to claim that much of the UK's recent pro-environment legislation 'n' regulation stems from the EU rather than from our own parliaments. I don't know enough to adjudicate on that view, but it...
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The contribution of economics to the gloomy debate about climate change
Another day; another seminar – it's just the hectic life of a retiring academic. This time, it was a trip to Bath to listen to Michael Finus, who has a Chair in Environmental Economics, give an I-SEE seminar on the contribution of...
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AUDE forgets about learning
AUDE, the Association for University Directors of Estates, has launched a HE Sector Sustainability Evaluating Methodology – known colloquially as the Green Scorecard. AUDE says that the intention of the scorecard is to "improve and promote sustainability, reflecting and demonstrating progress and...
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Learning in the Mesolithic
The Stonehenge seminar on Monday night was a great evening with 6 varied presentations, as I outlined the other day, and a tribute to Buckingham's approach to their MA. I thought the best piece of work was that outlined by...
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Do you know the new Alphabet?
I was unaware that Google had acquired a parent company – called Alphabet. It's a big umbrella under which Google can nestle its many current manifestations, including what it calls its moonshot projects – think driverless cars. Happily, there's a recent...
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Neo- and Meso-learning at Stonehenge
It's off to Stonehenge tonight for a series of brief talks arising from the University of Buckingham's Archeology MA class of 2015. The topics are varied: An assessment of the evidence for large animal movement and hunting strategies within the Stonehenge landscape...
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Please show the love – but don't forget the money
WWF-UK sent an email to its supporters last week saying, " ... building on the success of our film last Valentine’s day, please watch the following poignant short (5 minutes) film with Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake. It is based...
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The hubris at the heart of the ESD project
I mentioned the other day that the Centre for Environmental Education [CEE] in Ahmedabad had held a conference in January on Education as a Driver of Sustainable Development Goals, and that this had produced a plan for action. As Eliza Doolittle might have...
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Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
Being an un-salaried (as opposed to a fully-lapsed) academic means that your life is no longer consumed by the thought of where the next paper is coming from and going to. In my case this means that my reading to writing...
