University and College leaders recognise sustainability as priority but fail to deliver Sustainable Education sector report 2017 from the National Union of Students (NUS), Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), University and College Union…
There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an increasingly…
Changing how you look at things changes how you see them! Put another way it is crucial that we retain and facilitate the ability to think outside the box and the frame……we need to challenge…
Thinking about sustainability in a place where settled human activity has continued for millennia brings new perspectives. Seeing how places such as pubs and cathedrals carry on human patterns of activity alongside innovative university/town partnerships…
Professor Janet Richardson, Professor of Health Service, Research Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University Introducing sustainability concepts to undergraduate nursing and healthcare students At Plymouth University we wanted to embed sustainability in the nursing…
By Alan Dixon. 2014 has been designated by the UN as the International Year of Family Farming – and in recognition of this the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance this year chose the…
Sustainable design techniques look to lessen materials uses, to re-use them and to use materials more effectively – to name but some aspects. These traits have now been adopted in various genres that use materials…
Example of a student sustainable packaging project for Lea and Perrins as part of Green Design course taught by Andy Stevenson. “We are frequently faced with new materials, new tools, new clients and new audiences…