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  • Aims and the Curriculum

    I made a short presentation on "Aims and the Curriculum" at the recent South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar which focused on forthcoming changes to national and school curriculums.  The meeting looked in particular at the recent expert panel report...

  • If only we'd listened to Daisaku Ikeda

    In a mailing to the SHED-SHARE network last week, Manchester's Adele Aubrey wrote: "... Daisaku Ikeda actually proposed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.  ... Ikeda believes the decade of education for sustainable development should be promoted with the...

  • The world is too much with us ...

    The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her...

  • Passing the Panda

    Earth Hour was on 31 March 2012, 2030, and was something of a global phenomenon with, we're told, hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights for one hour across the planet – something we were urged to watch...

  • UNESCO ESD Decade to end 2 years early

    Paris, April 1 This morning, Dr Renata O'Gorman, a spokesperson for the Chairperson of the UNESCO Executive Board, announced that UNESCO's General Conference had taken the decision to end the UN ESD Decade at the end of August 2012 – two...

  • DfID rediscovers its interest in schools – and a pot of gold

    Think Global reports today on DFID plans to fund a Global Learning Programme for England which will “increase and improve the teaching and learning, at Key Stages 2 and 3, of issues related to global poverty”. The programme will run,...

  • That presumption in favour of sustainable development ...

    It seems that the government's National Planning Policy Framework now has sustainable development's being seen in terms of a (local) collective interest.  This is a quote from the Telegraph's on-line reporting of the 5 principles of reform: They establish a...

  • Local green innovators

    The Wiltshire Times is reporting the success of a local primary school [ Sutton Veny ] in reaching the national finals of the 'Climate Week Challenge'.   The school’s entry was designed is based on an idea for a Friendly Cow...

  • "... as a rule he was curiously uncritical about his own ideas"

    It is said that Cambridge astrophysicist, Arthur Eddington thought that, in the early 1920s, there were only two people who really understood relativity: Einstein – and Arthur Eddington.  He held the Plumian Chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy for over 30...

  • EAUC endorses Rio+20 initiative

    EAUC has endorsed the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative for Rio+20, and is clearly pleased at being asked: The EAUC is delighted to announce that it has joined a number of other international organisations to officially endorse the Higher Education Sustainability...