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Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio

March 30, 2011

So, let’s make a radio show we said. And make a radio show we’re doing. And it’s a blast. And, dare I say it, it’s good. Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio has now had five shows (podcasts from sustainablelens.org). Each week Anton Angelo, Shane Gallagher and me talk with an invited guest, all through […]

Congratulations everyone involved in the Sustainable Habitat Challenge

November 23, 2009

I had the honour of being the warm-up act at the Sustainable Habitat Challenge Awards dinner on Friday (see ODT list of winners). It was a fantastic night, and not just because of the wine, music and train ride. The projects described were fabulous. Although I appreciated the “alternative” buildings, the ones I enjoyed […]

From the margins to the centre

April 28, 2009

At the UN DESD conference I was at a workshop on integrating Education for Sustainability into curriculum plans. The workshop had the theme of “from the margins to the centre” and was by far the most productive session I attended. In one section, Robert Schreiber of the Hamburg Ministry of Education presented the German model of […]

Occupational theme and sustainability worldview?

April 24, 2009

I’m wondering today if there is a link between occupational preferences and sustainability? I was prompted there by an interesting report in the latest Communications of the ACM. LeeAnne Coder and her colleagues report on a study of 500 graduates in Kansas. They were interested in exploring the extent to which “the dearth of […]