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GEEP – 3 – a country needs survey
As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation. The first I published yesterday. This is the second of them: a country needs survey....
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GEEP – 2 – an overview of issues facing the UK
As part of the preparations for the GEEP [Global Environmental Education Partnership] meeting in San Diego, I was asked to write two reports about the UK situation. This is the first of them: an overview of environmental education [EE] issues in...
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GEEP – 1 – the Global Environmental Education Partnership
I've been invited to the next meeting of the GEEP: Global Environmental Education Partnership. Its draft goals, objectives and strategy are to: 1: Build capacity in member countries to develop and support quality EE The objectives are to: identify and share...
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The US way of doing things
It is always fascinating to read about how other countries do things. Under the heading: EE Advocacy Summer Successes and an Invitation to Participate, the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] says this about Environmental Education in the USA: "Environmental Education...
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Our green desert
This was the phrase used by Simon King in his compelling and engaging, but unsettling, talk at the Bruton Eco-school roadshow the other week. He was referring as much to Somerset as to England more widely, comparing the here and...
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Living in an Uncertain World
This was the title of last Tuesday night's I-SEE lecture by Richard Pancost, Director of the University of Bristol's Cabot Institute. His seminar abstract was that: "Our future Uncertain World (sic) is not one of which we have no knowledge – we have...
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VW's moral licence to trade
I wrote the other day about VW and its emissions troubles. All is not gloom for the company, however, as it wins prizes for its Corporate Social Responsibility. Indeed, as the Telegraph reminds us, VW is a "global leader" in CSR. Maybe,...
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An unreal world learning model
I've been looking at the Real World Learning model which says that "it offers a holistic and flexible approach to outdoor learning for sustainability; a way of thinking, reflecting and being" which sounds good. It also says that "each element on...
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German students are now €uros in
Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has announced the first winners of the UNESCO-Japan Prize for outstanding projects related to ESD. They are: Asociación SERES (Guatemala and El Salvador) ~ awarded for its “SERES ESD Youth Ambassadors” initiative, which uses an...
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Lies, damned lies and vehicle emissions data
I was in Germany when the extent of the VW emissions scandal finally became clear to us all. Amid all that sausage, cake and beer, there was considerable reputational anxiety – and not just for car-making, though it does employ,...
