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We scream. Two grant proposals on ’sustainability’ and education
As always, I think it is good practice to share what I am doing. Here are two ‘expressions of interest’ we made today for the HEA’s Small Education for Sustainable Development Interdisciplinary Grants.
UPDATE: Neither submissions were accepted. We were told that #1 was ‘not deemed transferable enough’ and that #2 was ‘not pedagogical enough’.
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An energy crisis reading list
In the course of writing our GreenICT proposal, 2020 Vision: Thinking the unthinkable, I’ve read a large number of recent, good quality reports which provide ample research for the casual reader into Peak Oil and a related energy crisis. Perhaps some readers of this blog might be interested in learning more about this topic, so [...]
Also posted in Energy, Reports Tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, David MacKay, Energy crisis, Energy development, Energy security, Environment, greenICT, International Energy Agency, National Assembly for Wales, ODAC, Oil depletion, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, oil production, Peak oil, Price of petroleum, ResilientEducation, Robert L. Hirsch, Sustainable Development Commission, UK Energy Research Centre, United Kingdom, Wales, Welsh Local Government Association, World energy resources and consumption 2 Comments
Thinking the unthinkable
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been dipping in and out of a bid that I am writing for JISC’s Greening ICT Programme. Those of you that follow me on Twitter will have seen me drop related tweets into the stream. I’ve been a bit nervous about doing so because they seem quite unrelated [...]
Also posted in Climate Change, Energy, ICT, Projects Tagged conventional oil production, Educational Technologist, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, Energy crisis, energy efficiency, Energy policy, energy supply, Environment, Environmental economics, Hirsch report, Intel, International Energy Agency, International Energy Outlook, long-term global energy crisis, oil, oil extraction, oil production, Peak oil, plastics, Price of petroleum, ResilientEducation, Scenario Planning, sustainability, UK Energy Research Council, United Kingdom, US Department of Energy, Welsh Local Government Association 10 Comments
OPACPress: Our Talis Incubator proposal