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Tailpipe Truths
This was the title of a recent Economist piece on electric cars in the US – actually, on why the sales of all-electric cars or hybrids haven't taken off (despite high fuel costs), and on why what is claimed for...
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EE in the USA: not an academic in sight
I'm watching part of the recent White House summit on Environmental Education on You Tube. Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia McNutt to the Panel on 21st Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental...
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The purpose of research is ... to sophisticate our beholding of the world
A really enjoyable day in Plymouth, yesterday, at the first PedRIO conference where I chaired a session on sustainability and learning which explored a range of interconnected research topics carried out within the University. Joanna Blake and Stephen Sterling talked...
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Can you have too much contact with nature?
Probably, I'd say, and the bloke sitting on this rock certainly looks as if he's running that risk. Thanks to Learn from Nature for alerting me to this long list of possible reasons why contact with nature is a good thing....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
