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”
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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”
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”
Community Resilience
Battered by the storm, Cornwall was emblematic of our institutional systemic failure to confront a rapidly changing reality. In one of the richest countries in the world, entire communities lost power for weeks, and running water for days. Had the British government addressed climate change, and made contingency plans for these mega-storms, which will onlyContinue reading “Community Resilience”
Recalibration Climate Risk
This wide ranging and impressive report addresses two distinct but interconnected dimensions of climate impacts, each relevant to different decision-makers: (1) economic impacts affecting financial asset values and portfolio performance over investment horizons, and (2) broader social and human welfare impacts, including mortality, health burdens, inequality, ecosystem degradation, and quality of life. The first isContinue reading “Recalibration Climate Risk”
Planning and the Risk From Surface Water Flooding
The purpose of house building should be to increase the stock of homes for local people. If new developments cause flooding of existing housing stock, and this renders existing housing uninhabitable and uninsurable there is no net increase in housing stock (What if floods left your home unsellable? 2 January Guardian). Matlock repeatedly suffers fromContinue reading “Planning and the Risk From Surface Water Flooding”
The Coming of the Ecological University
“Universities have been with us on this Earth for at least one thousand years and will surely be with us in the future; perhaps so long as there is life on this planet that has any well-being. There is now something in not just the name of the institution but in the idea of the university that seemsContinue reading “The Coming of the Ecological University”
The Future is Bright
Solar Power Reviewed by Carbon Choices 22 August Falling Costs The cost of electricity produced by solar power has been falling for the last two decades. This trend is likely to continue due to the increased efficiency of panels, lower cost of silicon, improved manufacturing techniques, and economies of scale – the higher the demandContinue reading “The Future is Bright”
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