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Tomorrow Today – more like Yesteryear
I have been browsing Unesco's latest coffee table book: Tomorrow Today. This is a heafty tome for which only strong (and rich) coffee tables need apply. It sells for a cool $125. However, with one or two exceptions, I thought...
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Big Society 0 – Big Brother 1
Yesterday's Guardian carried a story about a 12 year old schoolboy in the Prime Minister's constituency who has been campaigning against the closure of youth facilities in his town. The Guardian reports that, on Thursday, he had his collar...
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The World's Worst Questionnaire
I confess that I have had to change my mind about this dubious accolade which had previously been awarded to Unesco for plumbing new depths of impenetrability. This was before I saw the latest effort from UNECE in its efforts...
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Sustainability, Learning and Capability: Exploring Questions of Balance
Steve Gough and I have a new paper published today in Sustainability. Here's the Abstract – in case you're tempted to read it ... It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings...
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The Leaving of Bradford
Three days and eight 10+1 lectures later I, and hundreds of others, wait for a train driver. The aim here is not so much cradle to cradle, as Bradford to Bristol. In the last days I have come to question...
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Three Days in Bradford …
At the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's 10+1 conference focusing on Cradle to Cradle ideas. Quite a trek to get here on a rail system coping pretty well with snow and ice. And a shock to be back in the north of...
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Seven Shades of ESD
Last week, The Economist ran an irreverent, but rather witty, article on what the various factions within the Anglican church stood for, and how they viewed themselves – and each other. A while back, I sketched something similar (but not...
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Probably the Wrong Sort of Sustainability
In its Schools White Paper published today: The Importance of Teaching, the government has promised to "develop sustainable approaches to teacher development". These are going to be Teaching Schools it seems, along the medical school model, an idea whose...
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Climate Change Education
If you hear a dull thud as you read this, it's the digitally-enhanced sound of my heart sinking (again). At a recent Unesco Executive Board, its panjandrums decided that a special focus on climate change education was just what ESD...
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My Grand European Tour …
... is over, for now. The last seven days have found me giving talks in Lüneburg, Paris, London, and finally in Bolton. On Tuesday I was a guest of the ESD research group in Lüneburg to launch their 2010/11 ESD...
