Food for thought: sustainability perspectives

These blogs are complementary to my book Leadership for Sustainability: Saving the Planet One School At A Time and explore aspects of sustainability in greater detail. The first one is a direct link from the text of this book. Others explore themes which influenced my thinking or which I found of particular interest. Sustainability really is Life the Universe and Everything!
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You are free to use them, but please credit me if you do.

Blog 9: School Catering: Making a Meal of it and 'Food for Life' (2024)
My experience of taking over control of school kitchens and relating school food to the curriculum, the community and the local area has borne fruit. 

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Blog 8: 6 Quick things to consider about Leadership for Sustainability (January 2025):
What it is not, frequent confusions and how it's distinct from leadership in other areas. Originally published on the Independent Thinking website.

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Blog 7: Sustainability Sidelined (June 2024)
How trains used to work to spread the load and achieve things with minimal use of resources. What went wrong? The original dull men's post

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Blog 6: Remember Remember...(November 2023)
​I went to a remembrance event on Sunday for the first time in years and was reminded how relevant remembrance is to a culture of loss in our times. 

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​Blog 5 - Victorian Building Lessons. RAAC, and my Eco-build of 2008 (October 2023)
After all the negative news about school buildings, I examine the horrible histories of how school buildings have reflected political, historic and aesthetic trends, skidding up to its unfortunate crumbling situation of today. 
This blog is also reproduced on the website of the National Association of Environmental Education here

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Blog 4 - Schools, simple arithmetic and circularity (November 2022)
A Sustainable School can encourage others to 'unleash' their minds from what is 'normal', for example, a 'take-make-use-dump' linear model of resource use and economy. 

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 Blog 3 - Individualism and Sustainability (September 2022)
This blog explores how a desire for individualism may have unintended consequences if we don’t think through what it really means. 

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Blog 2 - Reality and Fantasy (June 2022)
This blog shows the value of stepping back and questioning whether the prevailing view of how our society and economy is running is sustainable in the long-run. If not, what should we do about it and does this mean adopting an ‘alternative reality’ to ensure our survival, rather than tinkering with the present one?

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Blog 1 - Building for the Future (April 2022)
At Bowbridge Primary school, Nottingham, we worked to develop a sustainable new building for the school. Read our process in depth, in this blog post.

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