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  Launched today, the Global Compact’s Measuring Up 2.0 report reveals how the UK is performing on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 Targets, the wider policy context, and the historical trends that affect us achieving the Goals. The report highlights that the UK is only performing well on 17% of the TargetsContinue reading “NEW REPORT LAUNCHED TODAY UK’s PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING THE GLOBAL GOALS“

The Festival of Thrift has been going for 10 years and, with little sign of the cost of living crisis easing, this year it seems more relevant than ever especially since convenience is the scourge of sustainability! Recycled paper to be used for business cards and leaflets.Photograph: Mark Pinder/The Guardian It is the UK’s only nationalContinue reading “FESTIVAL OF THRIFT”

 This recent report from the OECD makes some important points especially on learning outcomes. Timely given the headlines in this week’s THES. A few paragraphs from the OECD report -Do Universities Teach Critical Thinking?: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/cc9fa6aa-en/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/cc9fa6aa-en “Higher education contributes immensely to economic growth, social progress, and overall quality of life through the skills students and graduates acquire.Continue reading “Do Universities Teach Critical Thinking?”

Positive Deviance Analysis When solving complex problems, it sometimes pays to start with what is working rather than figure out what is not…By Tom Connor Find the “Bright Spot” that has already solved the problem When solving problems there are four frames from which you can approach the solution. Systems centric, problem centric, solutions centric and solverContinue reading “HOW TO SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS“

Jem Bendell This preprint(full paper in the link below this abstract)written by Professor Jem Bendell outlines his thinking on the impact of the SDGs . It’s not comfortable reading but nor is what’s happening across the globe in terms of fires, floods and huge changes in weather events as well as the increasing evidence ofContinue reading “Replacing Sustainable Development: Potential Frameworks for International Cooperation in an Era of Increasing Crises and Disasters.“

CAMPAIGN TO MOBILISE SCHOOLS FOR COP-26 IN GLASGOW   On Wednesday, 21st April, Reboot the Future, a UK-based NGO,  launched ‘How Will You Reboot the Future?’, a multi-media project targeted at UK 14–19-year-old students to stimulate debate and action as we approach the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow laterContinue reading “REBOOT THE FUTURE JONATHON PORRITT ANNOUNCES, ‘HOW WILL YOU REBOOT THE FUTURE?’”

I came across the work of environmentalist Paul Hawken  during my time as Director of Learning at Forum for the Future. In his new book published on the 21 September-2021-at the start of the autumn equinox he espouses a new way of framing the solutions to our climate crisis. It’s title is an alternative twist thatContinue reading “Regeneration – ending the climate crisis in one generation”