A great pleasure to support the 25 th Mini Civic Climate Assembly in the Sneinton Community Centre last week. It attracted some lively and informed residents from the city of Nottingham who had many great ideas for making Sneinton Market a more environmentally and socially sustainable venue for the residents of its community and other residentsContinue reading “Sneinton Mini Civic Climate Assembly”
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City of Nottingham Climate Assembly July 2026
We know that our city is moving in the right direction in its move to become carbon neutral and to respond to the climate challenges that are facing us in a way that will benefit everyone. Yet we also know that we need an ever-improving connection between policies enacted by decision makers and the actionsContinue reading “City of Nottingham Climate Assembly July 2026”
Exploring University Sustainability Performance through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework
Presentation to the new University Strategy Team for Sustainability at Nottingham University 21 July 2026 Introduction I have spent almost 40 years promoting and advocating the urgency of this agenda at international conferences and here in the UK and working at the interface of academia , national policy and corporate business. I also pioneered aContinue reading “Exploring University Sustainability Performance through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework”
FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: ON THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WORKING TOWARDS MORE PEACEFUL, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Posted on 01/07/2026 On July 1 a new open access book was be launched “Learning for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World” edited by Douglas Bourn and Alexis Stones. The book showcases current debates in the field of global education and learning and the importance of the Declaration on Global Education to 2050. It features chapters fromContinue reading “FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD: ON THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WORKING TOWARDS MORE PEACEFUL, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES”
Learning to speak and swim through our emotions
By Anupriya Dasgupta For an organism to survive and grow, especially in an ecological crisis, it is imperative to understand its environment as well as it can. Our social environment is one such physical place. In its deeper parts, we communicate through something fluid, where our sophisticated intellectual apparatus turns to the superiority of theContinue reading “Learning to speak and swim through our emotions”
To Improve Wellbeing We Must Abandon Failed Economic Ideas
Do you recall this lot? You might be able to add Andy Burnham to that list very soon, and nothing about what I say here will change. They all made big claims for themselves. They were: And yet, in one vital respect, they have all been very much the same. Each arrived in Downing StreetContinue reading “To Improve Wellbeing We Must Abandon Failed Economic Ideas”
POLITICS WITHOUT POLITICIANS BOOK REVIEW
Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore has a soft spot for shy people — the wallflowers least likely to seek or desire power. She believes shy people should play a bigger role in governing. In fact, she argues they might be key to fixing democracy.In her new book, “Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule”Continue reading “POLITICS WITHOUT POLITICIANS BOOK REVIEW”
Revisiting the Challenges Facing Canadian Higher Education: The Limits of Crisis-Thinking
By Sharon Stein UBC Are our individual and institutional responses appropriately calibrated to the scale and complexity of the moment we are actually in? After all, we cannot “solve” planetary and geopolitical challenges at the level of curriculum, technology, or individual resilience. We cannot, and arguably should not, seek to extend an extractive system indefinitely.Continue reading “Revisiting the Challenges Facing Canadian Higher Education: The Limits of Crisis-Thinking”
JOHN RUSKIN and CLIMATE CHANGE
In 1884, John Ruskin delivered one of the first lectures to discuss climate change and make a link to industrial pollution. Now, with the help of a group of 13- to 16-year-olds, a new exhibition Sheffield’s unrivalled Ruskin collection is taking place at the city’s Millennium Gallery. Storm-Cloud brings together work from the Guild ofContinue reading “JOHN RUSKIN and CLIMATE CHANGE”
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