Hedgerow plant identifier

The CPRE has produced a useful new guide for identifying and classifying hedgerows. This is a celebration of our hedgerows. CPRE says: “We wanted to share our passion for them and encourage more people to care about them too.  And to entice you further, we’ve included a handy hedgerow plant identifier for when you’re next…

A garden in every school

Julia Parker-Dickerson,  Director of Education Programmes at KidsGardening.org explores school gardening in New York. Housed together in a four-story brown brick structure surrounded by brownstones and apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York are two schools: Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (PS 705) and the Explore Exceed Charter School (Exceed). These combined schools in the Crown…

It’s National Environmental Education Week

But only in the USA.  NEEF’s 12th annual National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is taking place from April 17-23.  It’s the USA’s  largest celebration of EE, and it sets out to inspire environmental learning among school students, and beyond, with events and projects taking place across the country in classrooms, after-school clubs, parks, aquariums, museums, and…

Resources from YPTE

The Young People’s Trust for the Environment (YPTE) has been busy for the last few months creating lesson plans and presentations to assist teachers in delivering lessons on environmental topics that meet with the requirements of the National Curriculum. YPTE offers free talks and presentations in schools, but as a small organisation with a limited…

How closes the loop?

Ken Webster’s latest thoughts on the circular economy have been published in Circulate.  They begin: The circular economy describes a feedback-rich economy in all its embedded glories: energy, materials and information.  It is one in which stocks matter, since they are the source and destination of complex flows, stock maintenance and even enhancement. Regeneration is…