Dr. Helen Kopnina
#Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0r…
- I asked Claude (my uni's recommended #AI tool) to reflect on bias after noticing ideological patterns. Training data reflects taboos. When we make topics "problematic," AI learns those boundaries too. How do we catch ourselves responding to assumptions? #AcademicCulture #CriticalThinking #HigherEd
- Happy to share our new article "Integrating critical thinking about #SDGs: Making #Biodiversity matter for business students" doi.org/10.1177/0973... With Teresa Roca & Karim Sorour #CorporateResponsibility #BusinessEducation #Sustainability #HigherEducation #EnvironmentalEducation
- INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century" open.substack.com/pub/breakdow...
- Fascinating pushback against Jason Hickel's claim that #degrowth is just a "gateway" to #ecosocialism. Liegey, Nelson & Leahy open important debate about movement autonomy #politicalstrategy in #climatecrisis era. degrowth.info/en/blog/deba... #ecosocialism #postcapitalism #sustainability
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- 🌱 How can #BusinessEducation address the #BiodiversityCrisis? #BusinessSchools have a "biodiversity blind spot". We argue for #Ecopedagogy & #Ecoliteracy that foster #CriticalThinking about #Degrowth, #CircularEconomy & #EnvironmentalEducation. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- 🌿"Requiem for the Weeds" at @thebotanics.bsky.social When did dandelions become worthless but tulips worthy of admiration? Time to reimagine urban space beyond human utility. 🌱 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhO... #Biodiversity #UrbanNature #Sustainability #ClimateAction #UrbanEcology #Green
- A decade on, this research showed how commericial–NGO partnerships can raise #environmentalawareness reinforcing #consumerism. As #greenwashing #CSR grows, the tension between #environmentaleducation & growth-driven #sustainableconsumption hasn’t gone. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Revisiting our 2014 paper with the late Prof. Frans Meijers on #EducationForSustainableDevelopment challenges how ESD often overlooks deep #EnvironmentalEthics and teacher identity in practice. @unesco.org look beyond #SDGs for transformative #Sustainability education. doi.org/10.1108/IJSH...
- Why is transport policy still failing our lungs? 🚗💨My research on #Asthma and #CarCulture argues we can't solve respiratory health with #VehicularDependency #EnvironmentalEducation can bridge gaps between #PublicHealth #Sustainability #AirPollution #UrbanPlanning doi.org/10.1080/1354...
- The "six-seven" meme that plagued classrooms in 2025 spread like #EducationForSustainableDevelopment. When kids mindlessly repeat nonsense, we call it #brainrot. When #HigherEducation adopts #SDG we call it innovation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- A decade on, this 2015 article still challenges us: can #EnvironmentalEducation stay neutral in a #Neoliberal world? It calls for a radical re-orientation of #EducationForSustainability away from mere token #Pluralism and toward meaningful #Sustainability www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Helen Kopnina: Requiem for the Weeds Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Date: Thursday 15 January 2026 Venue: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Science Building, 20a Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR botsoc.scot/2025/12/31/r...
- New article: Pluralism and Critique... arguing for intellectual pluralism, not ideological conformity. The answer to polarization is rigorous debate & empirical inquiry, not abandoning critical perspectives or shutting down dissent. digitalcommons.usf.edu/jea/vol26/is...
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- Nice to see this old Christmas paper highlighted although its reflections are not that festive doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
- New paper out in Visions for #Sustainability! We bridge the gap between #CircularEconomy & #ESG reporting proposing an updated 10-R framework including #Regeneration #Rewilding & Circularity Scoring Model to quantify #Biodiversity in #CorporateAccountability dx.doi.org/10.13135/238...
- A decade since publication, "Sustainability: New strategic thinking for business" remains relevant: without addressing #population, production, & consumption increases, sustainability remains impossible. 21K+ reads suggest these ideas still resonate. rdcu.be/eUCi3 #sustainability #ESG #business
- Working on project addressing transport poverty in UK. How do we create sustainable mobility without deepening inequalities? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SustainableTransportation #SocialMobility #TransportPoverty #NorthEast #EnvironmentalJustice
- Cancelling international keynotes & missing my child's birthday because I cannot leave the country. The Global Talent visa application has travel restrictions – you must not travel outside the UK until you get a decision. The irony: I have lived in the UK for over 11 years including my PhD period...
- Can market-based instruments address a crisis caused by market failures? Our new chapter examines corporate accountability for biodiversity loss & why current frameworks #BNG, #NbS, #TNFD often treat ecosystems as secondary to carbon metrics and financial returns. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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- Fully funded PhD Governing Urban Sustainability: Knowledge, Ecoliteracy, and Biodiversity in the City www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Ref: IDRT26/URBANFUTURES/KOPNINA)
- New research in AAAJ explores extinction accounting in Hong Kong, examining how government bodies and NGOs track biodiversity loss in one of the world's densest cities. www.emerald.com/aaaj/article... #ExtinctionAccounting #Biodiversity #UrbanConservation #SustainabilityResearch
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- Contemplating autumn poem: No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn no dusk no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! — November! Thomas Hood.
- "It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter. At night, its voice once filled the forest of Christmas Island. Now the forest is silent. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, is declared extinct"
- 'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
