{"id":6661,"date":"2016-05-11T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:03:20","slug":"lighting-up-pathways-for-a-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/05\/11\/lighting-up-pathways-for-a-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting up pathways for a new world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location. \u00a0This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British. \u00a0No, not Ibiza \u2013 Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>The breathless\u00a0strapline\u00a0for this event (I'll not be going) is:\u00a0<em>Universities as Beacons of Change: education for sustainability lighting up pathways for a new world. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No matter how much you might admire all this\u00a0[ beacon \u2013 lighting \u2013 pathway \u2013 change \u2013 brave new world ] as an\u00a0idea, you might have cause to doubt the image that accompanies it. \u00a0It's a lighthouse which, of course, is not an image\u00a0associated with progressive change and new worlds, but with wrecks and disaster. \u00a0How apt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, and there's yet another ESD conference in an exotic location. \u00a0This one's in that part of Spain that is forever British. \u00a0No, not Ibiza \u2013 Gibraltar. The breathless\u00a0strapline\u00a0for this event (I'll not be going) is:\u00a0Universities as Beacons of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}