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Ayrshire children miss out on ESD2
A rather inevitable story in the Telegraph at the weekend which shows the wind industry adopting fairtrade tactics in using children to urge their parents to pressure the local council to give the ok to wind farm development. The story...
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After Sustainability: denial, hope, retrieval – a new John Foster Seminar
A date for everyone's dairy, I'd say. John Foster will speak on After Sustainability : denial, hope, retrieval on April 30th at the University of Bath as part of the I-SEE seminar series. 1600 (for tea). This is John's Abstract: Why...
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DfID buying votes again
I've taken this from the most recent Think Global newsletter: The Global Learning Programme, funded by DFID, has been awarded to The Development Education Consortium which comprises the following organisations: the Geographical Association, the Institute of Education, Oxfam, the Royal...
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Mark Lynas's GM mea culpa
Mark Lynas's recent lecture to the Oxford Farming Conference begins: I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I...
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Failing The Observer science quiz
I took the Guardian / Observer science quiz at Christmas, and scored a miserable 8 out of 20. Mind you, the questions had a lot to do with popular culture which never seems to be my strong suit these days...
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UNESCO's Decade reporting: questions on data sources
I've been reading the report that UNESCO released last year: Shaping the Education of Tomorrow: Full-length Report on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. I briefly wrote about this at the time of its release, noting Arjan Wals' concerns...
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Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education
A summary report on the Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education project landed on my desktop today. The full report is at the AGOTL. As I skimmed it, I noticed two things: 9 out of the 15 citations come from...
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What are those hidden EE gems?
A New Year mail from Justin Dillon and Alan Reid who asked for suggestions of material to go into a publication in the Routledge ‘major works’ series which is intended to draw from material that has already been published. The task is...
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Just don’t mention the other C word
An email yesterday from the SDE Network in Scotland, announcing a new year conference. It said: We are delighted to formally invite you to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Conference jointly hosted by the Scottish Government and...
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China embraces the circular economy
Recent reports, in New Scientist amongst other sources, say that the Chinese are adapting to circular economy ideas. Here is a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation itself, including this link to ChinaDaily which reports ... The park includes three "recycling...
