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ESD in HE – a supply or demand issue?
How to "integrate ESD into disciplines" within HE seems a topical issue, at least amongst those who see "promoting ESD" as being important, as opposed, say, to changing curricula. However, I think it's possibly (ie, probably) the wrong question. I...
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Whatever happened to the RCEs?
I remember going to the launch of the East Midlands Region Centre of Expertise [RCE], way back in 2007 (where I remember giving one of the worst talks of my life). Since then, a number of RCEs have been set...
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Welcome to another NUS survey
For the past couple of years, the (almost wholly) admirable NUS (supported by the HEA) has carried out research which showed that a majority of first year university students say that they want to learn about sustainability through their degree,...
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What are we going to develop to replace Iowa?
Learn from Nature has a link to an Bill Maher's US TV show where Bill McKibbon, and his host, set about a couple of climate change deniers. BMcK had some great lines: his natural capital question about Iowa, for...
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School food US style
Softish liberals usually think that nutritional standards for school food are an obvious social good, whereas many traditional (large L) liberals would be likely to think that parents might take more responsibility for their children's welfare than many seem to...
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More on the UK's "mindless" badger cull
Today's Observer carried this critique: Britain's top animal disease scientists have launched a devastating attack on the government's "mindless" badger cull, accusing ministers of failing to tell the truth and demanding the immediate abandonment of the killings. The intervention by dozens of...
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Wroughting away
At a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other week, there was something of a minor spat about the 3Rs, and the word "wroughting", a concept I first came across in the context of Industry Year, in 1986....
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ESD and the QAA – dangerous medicine
Now that the QAA has embraced ESD – or so we're told, and HEFCE has spent a fortune encouraging / exploring / enabling this – I expect its fortunes (ESD's that is) to diminish even further. Having experienced the QAA's...
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Have you got all your [blue] marbles?
I have, at last, run out of excuses for not looking at the phenomenon that is Blue Marble. I note that the Untidy Britain Group is now part of this, as the latest BM Mag notes ... The need for...
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Is there LiFE in Copernicus?
We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC's LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there is something to be gained by...
