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Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Even business is taking the SDGs seriously. This is, in part at least, because they are good for business because development is good for business; just as business is good for development. There's a new report [**] on all this...
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ERIC and the CEE
I wrote the other day about NAEE's Annual review which led me to search for those reviews carried out by the Council for Environmental Education (CEE) in times past. It's easy to find one c/o the ERIC archive: ED412076: The Annual...
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Beyond stewardship – a troubled text
I've been reading (with some difficulty) Beyond stewardship: common world pedagogies for the Anthropocene by Affrica Taylor (Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra) who "infuses her geographies of childhood, common world pedagogies, and multispecies ethnographic research with feminist, queer and...
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Let's make sure we remember Edward Colston
I was pleased to see the decision of the governors of Colston's Girl's School in Bristol not to change the name of the school, despite all the moralising urgings. Edward Colston was deputy governor of the Royal African Company in...
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Will you be at the 2017 Student Sustainability Summit?
Sadly, I cannot be at the Student Sustainability Summit on November 8th. As such, I'll be missing inspiring talks on: Connecting the dots – sustainability and liberation Liberation and climate change are sometimes seen as completely separate issues. What has Black...
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NAEE's Annual Review
NAEE has published its Annual Review for 2016 / 17. You will find it here. I should declare an interest immediately as I had a hand in creating it. NAEE says that the review: "sets out key developments in the year, reflections...
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Faith, finance and ecology
There was a seminar in Zug the other day organised by ARC**, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation; sadly, I wasn't invited. It was a meeting of the great, the good, and the ugly. The Economist reported it: Green investors and right-wing sceptics...
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There's nowt so queer as EE folk
Joshua Russell (Canisius College, Buffalo) is seeking contributions to a book called Queer EcoPedagogies: Explorations in Sexuality, Nature, and Education. His call begins: In 2002, Constance Russell, Tema Sarick, and Jacqueline Kennelly wrote what was arguably the first foray into queer theory...
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GEEP and the sustainable development goals
I wrote about GEEP yesterday and its call to action. GEEP's mission and goals are: "to build capacity to advance policy, governance, and practice in environmental education around the world, including at the local, regional, national and international levels, foster strategic partnerships...
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GEEPing along
Looking at the NAEE website on Friday, I was moved to look again at the GEEP call to action. You'll find it here. This is the rationale: As environmental educators, we know that what we do informs, inspires, and enlightens. It...
