Manchester Environmental Education Network
The climate crisis is becoming increasingly evident as world temperatures rise, biodiversity falls and humans struggle with the associated issues of how to keep the planet within a safe margin for life to continue. Read more…
Sociological Barriers to Community Engagement with Higher Education Institutions
This is a presentation examining sociological barriers communities face in engaging with higher education institutions. Globally there is a discussion around the unsustainable ways which humans are living on the planet and everyone is told that they play an important role in meeting the challenges which are now at our doorstep. There is international consensus that climate breakdown and the problems of unsustainable ways of living and being on the planet must be addressed on a system wide, community wide and individual level. Read more…
The Problematic Links Between Technology Use in Learning and Sustainability: Views From An Educator
12th June 2018: Climate Change and the Need to Change Behaviour in the West by Prof Kevin Anderson; Screening and Discussion
Come along to The Lighthouse bookshop (43-45 W Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DB) at 7.30pm to watch the lecture by Prof Kevin Anderson and to discuss climate change…
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Climate Change and the Need to Change Behaviour in the West by Prof Kevin Anderson; Screening and Discussion
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‘From Sweden With Care’; Alternative Visions of Education by Isak Stoddard
This is an audio recording of the presentation given by Isak Stoddard at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the University of Manchester. Isak is Project Coordinator in Climate Change Leadership, Educational Coordinator and Deputy Director of CEMUS at Uppsala University in Sweden. The presentation was called ‘From Sweden with care’ and it deals with education and societal change in troubled times. Read more…
Lets Talk About Population Baby! by Brian Chrystal
Sustainability and Education by Bob Cranwell
I should say, if you have an interest in this area of our development, that this is a wholly opinionated piece with few references, relying mainly on experience, observations and memory. Some of this turned out be entirely contrary to my own view at the time and thus I had some thinking to do. Hard thinking is something missing in modern life, sadly; but since we are actually talking about areas which require an entire shift from convention, this is only fair to point out. Read more…