Category Archives: sustainability

EAUC Conference – Embedding Sustainability in Higher & Further Education

At the end of June 2024 I went to the wonderful EAUC conference in Winchester. The conference started well with an ‘SDG summit game’ run by the inspirational Simon Kemp. The purpose of the game was to get participants to … Continue reading

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What does Net Zero mean?

Last week I went to see Owen Hewlett from Gold Standard talking about what Net Zero actually means using a base of science based targets.

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Circular Economy and Sustainable Lifestyles (conference report)

From 27-29 June, I was at a conference on the Circular Economy (CE). More specifically, it was titled “Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy” –  hosted by the Global Research Forum at the University of Sussex (SPRU/IDS).

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Sustainable Innovation

On Monday 7 November, I went to the Sustainable Innovation conference at the Centre for Sustainable Design in Epsom. The theme of the conference was “Circular Economy” which ties in very nicely with my teaching and research on #itmbath.

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Future of the UK automobile industry?

I am rarely this timely with my blog posts but was alerted to this announcement by my colleague Andrew Graves: The government and automotive industry are investing £500 million each over the next ten years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre … Continue reading

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