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Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth
If you are reading this, you probably missed the coming together of the world's leading miserabilists in New York at the weekend. Never, mind, think of all the carbon the world saved by your not going, and the tedium you were spared....
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When is sustainability more than just efficiency?
The Economist's Schumpeter blog recently carried an article "A new green wave" which suggests that "a few pioneering businesses are developing sustainability policies worthy of the name." Really?, you might think. Is that news? Surely this has been going on...
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Letter to HEFCE's CEO
Professor Madeleine Atkins Chief Executive Officer Higher Education Funding Council for England Northavon House Coldharbour Lane Bristol BS16 1QD Dear Professor Atkins In 2009, Hefce published an updated strategic statement and action plan on sustainable development in the higher education sector...
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Ministers not going to ESD Jamboree in Japan Shock
This was to be the Sun's front page headline today, until a dead donkey story came up. It seems that no member of the UK government is going to the End-of-Days conference on ESD in Japan in November. Not even the...
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There's a really good living to be made out of climate change
There was evidence for this aplenty in Oxford the other day as the idea and practice of capitalism came in for another routine bashing. That's a great thing about capitalism, of course, it affords niches not just for business and social...
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HEFCE's Sustainable Development Framework – an update of sorts
You might be wondering what has happened to HEFCE's new Sustainable Development Framework – after all, the national consultation was many months ago. Well, there is the inevitable passage through the Council's committees – not to mention their having to get a...
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Ahead of the game in Glasgow – well, up to a point
There was a small macflurry of excitement on the Clyde this week as the University of Glasgow announced it was to sell its shares in Big Oil. This is what the university had to say: Glasgow becomes first UK university to...
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So, how is Plan A coming on? Not all that well, ...
Marks and Spencer likes to talk up its green credentials saying that it has no "Plan B". So, imagine my surprise and disappointment when I went into one of their motorway stores last week, looking for some English apples only to find...
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It's a far, far better thing I do ...
Though it's hardly a Sydney Carton moment, it is a selfless gesture nonetheless. I have given up a place at the launch of education for sustainable development: guidance for UK higher education providers, so that someone whose need to learn about ESD...
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Trying to change Section 78 of England's 2002 Education Act
Section 78 of England's 2002 Education Act begins like this: 78 – General requirements in relation to curriculum (1) The curriculum for a maintained school or maintained nursery school satisfies the requirements of this section if it is a balanced and broadly...
