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Teaching and learning strategies – and ESD
This is part of a message sent by UCU about the publication of the 2012 Green League Table ... "We are particularly concerned about the slow pace of change on education for sustainable development. Only a third of institutions have...
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Unapproved strawberry jam alert
In a press release dated 30th July 2012, the Office for Strictures and Control on Food and Fodder ( Ofscoff ) [1] ordered the confiscation of strawberry jam recently and illicitly produced by unqualified persons at an unregistered site somewhere...
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Steady as she goes
I confess that I struggle with issues around economic growth, in particular wondering how more people can enjoy a decent life – Sen's idea(l) of living a life one has reason to value – without it. I subscribe to the...
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Quote of the year – so far
From a 2012 UK report to UNESCO ... "... a lack of coordination and support for project projects which often results in duplication ..." Just so: must be a recurring problem. Rather sadly, I did not spot this myself ...
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Peak Gas anyone?
A long special report in last week's Economist on natural gas and its rapidly increasing availability. Looks like peak gas has been put off for a while yet, and, given that natural gas is increasingly substituting for oil across its...
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Rio ± 20
In his latest blog posting, Arjen Wals shares some of his recent experiences at the hands of UNECO editors, and looks back both at Rio+20, and Rio -20 in Stockholm. He notes ... I was invited to Rio to present...
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EAUC's eloquent response to the QAA
EAUC has submitted a well-argued response to the QAA about its marginalisation of sustainability in the new UK quality code. See this post for a comment on the very poor fist QAA made of all this. EAUC begins ... In...
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Keep America beautiful by recycling less
I once got into trouble during a talk at a school by suggesting that they should try to reduce the amount of stuff they recycled, and that cutting waste in the first place was a better project. It fell on...
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Having your cake and eating other people's
This Michael Leunig cartoon wafted its way from Australia the other day. My reaction was: doesn't this satirise affluent developed-economy lifestyles, especially those enjoyed by my generation, rather than the idea (or, for some, ideal) of sustainability? On being provoked to...
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John Clare day
In Monday's Guardian, George Monbiot suggested that today ought to be John Clare Day (his birth date in 1793). Well, fine by me, and I'd join any queue to be the first to agree with this. Monbiot's argument is that John...
