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Dispatches from the Harmony front line
In what I should confess is a desultory fashion, I have been following the outpourings from COP17 in Durban, and this caught my eye: Second Committee Approves Text on Harmony with Nature As my eyes are drawn to texts on...
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Successful day out in Bicton
An enjoyable day at Bicton College in Devon today. The SWLSC 'Coalition' held its first seminar of the 2011/12 year with the theme of 'beyond the KPI'. This used a collaborative format where 6 of us gave short (5 to...
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Keeping an eye on COP17
Thanks to the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, you can listen in to some of the key figures at COP17 in Durban. It's on You Tube. Head of UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres, kicked it off.
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The Winter’s Come
Sweet chestnuts brown like soleing-leather turn, The larch trees, like the colour of the sun That paled sky in the Autumn seem’d to burn. What a strange scene before us now does run Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black and...
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School carbon emissions in England on the rise
I spotted this on the Taylor & Francis website Typical CO2 emissions from schools in England are rising, despite reductions to their heating demands, because of an increase in electricity consumption, according to new research published in the ‘Building Research...
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HEA Academic Lead for Education for Sustainable Development
I need to add my welcome and congratulations to xxxxxx (I don't know either). As yesterday's ESD Project e-newsletter notes: This highly motivated and engaging individual will have the pleasure of coordinating and/or leading on the rest of this year's...
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Responsibly sourced concrete
I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global’s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...
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Cradle to cradle to ... what exactly?
At the Management International Conference in Portorož, I listened to a confident presentation about cradle to cradle ideas by Albin Kälin, CEO of EPEA Switzerland. I suppose I should say Cradle to Cradle® as this phrase has been registered. Anyway. EPEA...
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Managing sustainability?
I'm jus returned from Slovenia where I gave a keynote at the 12th Management International Conference, MIC, in Portorož. The title of the conference was Managing Sustainability?, and I was asked, in particular, to talk about the ? in the title...
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... nor hell a fury like an academic scorned
Next Easter, classics Professor, Edith Hall, is moving across London, from Royal Holloway to King's in a move prompted, we're told, by her present university's reaction to funding changes. The Observer, today, carried some detail of the ins and outs...
