Culture’s Compass: Deeply-Rooted Education and Sustainable Future

The COMPASS future: COMPASS II

Up to now the COMPASS experiment [1] contributed with the muon beam to precise measurements of the nucleon longitudinal momentum structure. A more complete nucleon description beyond collinear approximation includes the quark intrinsic momentum distributions which are described by the Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and by Generalised Parton Distribution...

Sustainable production and future trend

Over the last 50 years the world’s population and industrialization have soared leading to increased resource use, pollution and waste, and in turn to problems including raw materials shortage and unsustainable increases in landfill areas environmental, social and economic expectation stakeholders of the company every day more and more. Designing products with reuse at end of life in mind is a ...

Astronomy. Telescope clash deeply rooted in Hawaii's past.

A month after protests halted work on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Hawaii’s Big Island, the impasse over what would be one of the world’s largest optical telescopes has deepened. Last week, as protesters continue to occupy the construction site on Mauna Kea, a 4205-meter dormant volcano, a state panel representing Native Hawaiians pulled its support for the project. The 30 April decision...

Learning for the Future? Effects of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on Teacher Education Students

Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might h...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization