Comments on: Sustainable schools: Must try harder, says Ofsted http://www.greenbang.com/sustainable-schools-must-try-harder-says-ofsted_3227.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Harmsworth http://www.greenbang.com/sustainable-schools-must-try-harder-says-ofsted_3227.html/comment-page-1#comment-3034 Andrew Harmsworth Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:23:31 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3227/sustainable-schools-must-try-harder-says-ofsted/#comment-3034 We've been pushing through the "8 doorways" required to become a Sustainable School for a few years now and are well on our way. Our electricity use is down (despite bills being up!) as is our gas use for heating. This summer we're adding a large solar thermal installation and we're investigating (Thursday) the recycling of cooking oil from our kitchens into bio-diesel for our minibuses... All of this is really positive and a great learning process for pupils and staff alike. Ofsted is right to want to push this hard.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3034','Andrew Harmsworth'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3034','Andrew Harmsworth','We\'ve been pushing through the \"8 doorways\" required to become a Sustainable School for a few years now and are well on our way. Our electricity use is down (despite bills being up!) as is our gas use for heating. This summer we\'re adding a large solar thermal installation and we\'re investigating (Thursday) the recycling of cooking oil from our kitchens into bio-diesel for our minibuses...\r\n\r\nAll of this is really positive and a great learning process for pupils and staff alike. Ofsted is right to want to push this hard.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> We’ve been pushing through the “8 doorways” required to become a Sustainable School for a few years now and are well on our way. Our electricity use is down (despite bills being up!) as is our gas use for heating. This summer we’re adding a large solar thermal installation and we’re investigating (Thursday) the recycling of cooking oil from our kitchens into bio-diesel for our minibuses…

All of this is really positive and a great learning process for pupils and staff alike. Ofsted is right to want to push this hard.

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]]> By: dieter gross http://www.greenbang.com/sustainable-schools-must-try-harder-says-ofsted_3227.html/comment-page-1#comment-2421 dieter gross Tue, 27 May 2008 13:13:49 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3227/sustainable-schools-must-try-harder-says-ofsted/#comment-2421 It's interesting, implementing ESD is still more steered by barriers than by drivers. We are just doing an international survey on that (UNESCO/Bangkok and Japan too). International experts have been confirming that the concept behind "sustainability" hasn't still been explained sufficiently: most people do not understand it and the most serious deficit:there is no real rethinking of education itself, only social aspects are added to Environmental Education. The survey is open - see https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Pz65qJJSmxiKIFOCGDrYgQ_3d_3d Best greetings Dieter Gross Berlin<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2421','dieter gross'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2421','dieter gross','It\'s interesting, implementing ESD is still more steered by barriers than by drivers. We are just doing an international survey on that (UNESCO\/Bangkok and Japan too). International\r\nexperts have been confirming that the concept behind \"sustainability\" hasn\'t still been explained sufficiently:\r\nmost people do not understand it and the most serious deficit:there is no real rethinking of education itself, only social aspects are added to Environmental Education.\r\n\r\nThe survey is open - see\r\nhttps:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=Pz65qJJSmxiKIFOCGDrYgQ_3d_3d\r\n\r\nBest greetings\r\nDieter Gross\r\nBerlin'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It’s interesting, implementing ESD is still more steered by barriers than by drivers. We are just doing an international survey on that (UNESCO/Bangkok and Japan too). International
experts have been confirming that the concept behind “sustainability” hasn’t still been explained sufficiently:
most people do not understand it and the most serious deficit:there is no real rethinking of education itself, only social aspects are added to Environmental Education.

The survey is open – see
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Pz65qJJSmxiKIFOCGDrYgQ_3d_3d

Best greetings
Dieter Gross
Berlin

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