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Could your students tackle sustainable water issues?

12/03/2018 by Paul Ducker Leave a Comment

In this guest post Amber Robinson explains how Water Explorer is inspiring 8-14 year-olds in the UK and around the world to lead action on water issues. Alongside their own actions students also get to link up with groups of children taking similar action in other countries. Plus, Water Explorer’s online resources are freely available. What a great way to engage young people with action on water issues, starting locally but thinking globally.

Filed Under: Featured, Water Tagged With: case study, global goals, guest post, international, participatory, SDGs, teaching, teaching resources, water

UK higher education facilities move to champion Sustainable Development Goals

12/09/2017 by Paul Ducker Leave a Comment

“UK and Irish higher education facilities have issued a collective response to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with select colleges and universities vowing to embed a new accord to champion the aims of the goals. The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), which represents more than two million UK and Irish students and 400,000 […]

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web, Universities, What is sustainability Tagged With: colleges, higher education, SDGs, universities

Government treating Global Goals as ‘developing world issue’, MPs warn

29/04/2017 by Paul Ducker

The Government has failed to set out plans to achieve a series of international goals in the UK, from ending poverty and hunger to tackling climate change, MPs have warned. Instead it is treating the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, as a ‘developing world issue’ and has no clear plan to implement them in the UK, the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has warned. With Brexit triggered, could the goals be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a cross-party consensus on sustainable development in the UK?

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web Tagged With: international, policy, SDGs, sustainable development

Quiz: how much do you know about the sustainable development goals?

28/04/2017 by Paul Ducker

Test your knowledge of the SDGs.

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web Tagged With: international, SDGs, sustainable development

WWF: Third-party sustainability standards can advance SDG progress for business

28/04/2017 by Paul Ducker

Businesses can contribute strongly to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and unlock new market opportunities by using credible voluntary sustainability standards, a new report from WWF has claimed.

Read about the report’s findings on the Edie.net web site. (Article first published 17 February 2017.)

Filed Under: Global connections, Spotted on the web Tagged With: business, international, SDGs, sustainability standards, sustainable development

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Reading Sustainability Centre

We are an education project linked to Transition Town Reading and Reading Hydro. Our goal is that Reading is recognised as a leader in practical action on sustainability, as well as a great place to live.

We are mostly virtual at the moment, but are working with a variety of partners to support the development of local sustainability experiments as well as ‘pop-up’ exhibitions and events. So please do keep checking back, or sign up for updates below. If you’d like to get more directly involved just drop us a line.

There is more about Reading Sustainability Centre on our Who we are page.

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