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"An introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE" Stephen Sterling's valiant attempt to help point ourselves in a better direction regarding Sustainability.

"A forum for Sustainable Development or Descent or Decline in all aspects of education. Links to http://esd.escalate.ac.uk Sharing interesting bookmarks, resources, ideas.... Let us see what happens!"

"This timeline takes you through the progress of sustainable development from the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 to the present day." IISD 2009 www.iisd.org

We are in the midst of World Water Week. The 2008 theme is "Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with Special Focus on Sanitation." World Water Week is a international conference focused on collaboration and the promotion of work that advances environmental and humanitarian development. The United Nations proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. With a focus on the Millennium Development Goals, the theme for World Water Week was chosen to draw attention to sanitation needs and the effect of poor sanitation worldwide. Goal seven - the goal of ensuring environmental sustainability- poses an enormous challenge, as do the sub goals, or target indicators. World Water Week highlights a target set by the MDG's that calls for the reduction, by half, of the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

"Bridging the gap between science and the practice of learning for nature, the environment and sustainability"

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability."

Sustainability relates to just about everything, so if you think 'this is nothing to do with me and my subject area', we invite you to suspend judgement and read further ...

At last Stephen Sterling's guide is in the public domain

SandWatch project with primary aged children in Grenada "House Assembly Project" with secondary students in Canada The teachers describe their ways of teaching sustainability & the students' give their reactions. "

" A few forward thinking organisations are questioning this approach to sustainability and asking the question can we be a NETpositive company?"

"Record-breaking solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur is in Davos to promote a new approach towards a sustainable economy. She wants products to be made that they are easy to disassemble in order to re-cycle the parts inside. She claims that the approach, called a circular economy, could mean savings of $630bn for Europe alone. "

A new small organisation grappling with us grappling with climate change. Worth a look. Heather Luna did great work for sustainability in UK HE.

"This is one of the most comprehensive and accessible guides for academic and professional practitioners who are seeking ways of embedding sustainability into the curriculum and teaching and learning in higher education. It's both fit for purpose and fit for the future."

""Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing", contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible."

"Researching Transformative Learning: explorations in education for sustainable development, internationalisation and citizenship"

a personal collection of writing from the ex-director of the Swiss ESD schools "Champion" Jan 2014 "Do we know what we are doing..." a free pdf file SOME VERY POWERFUL STUFF!

"Analysis shows that the adoption of the circular economy could be worth as much as USD 700 billion in consumer goods material savings alone, and also highlights added benefits in terms of land productivity and potential job creation. The report features specific examples in product categories that represent 80% of the total consumer goods market by value, namely food, beverages, textiles, and packaging. "