Gaia + James Lovelock died last week on his 103rd birthday. Here is the obituary from the Guardian. He will be forever associated with the Gaia theory of a self-regulating Earth, but his achievements were much wider than this through his inventions and experiments. For example, he alerted the world to the presence of CFC gases in the atmosphere although he…
Today’s post is by Mary Colwell the author and activist who did so much to bring OCR’s natural history GCSE to fruition. Mary is Director of Curlew Action and the author of Beak, Tooth and Claw – Living with predators in Britain (William Collins 2021), Curlew Moon (William Collins 2018), and John Muir – the Scotsman who…
A response to the DfE Strategy written by co-chairs of the UK Schools Sustainability Network operations group, Helen Burge (Priory Learning Trust, Somerset) and Paul Edmond (Heart Academies Trust, Beds), is on the Education Executive website. The UKSSN Ops Group was founded after COP26 in order to bring together the voices of school business leaders who are key to…
A research team from the UK and Ireland have a paper in the journal Ecology and Evolution which explores “the botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness”. This is the Abstract: “Civilization is dependent upon plants for survival. Plants permeate our every moment and our relationship with them will dictate how we will…
Letters to the UN – Manchester University’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (in collaboration with Save the Children UK and UK-Med) ran a competition for UK school children to write a speech or letter, addressed to the UN, on the climate emergency. They were asked to focus on: How is climate change affecting you and what actions, initiatives, and policies should…
Vol 131 of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine is now available. There are two freely available articles: Green Buddhism by John NegruAn introduction Navigating Inquiry-Based Instruction by Pamela ChinThe “Four Cs” in a middle school ELA classroom ……………………………………………………….. Other articles (available only to subscribers though you can read the abstracts) are: Where’s the future in teaching? by David FernsPreparing…
Today’s post comes from our Chair, Bill Scott. As with all our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily those of the Association. News comes today that the threat to biodiversity on Earth might pose an existential threat to humanity. This warning comes from the Environment Agency. Many would likely contest the “might” in that…
Cushions Recommended – Teach the Future is holding a teach-in to raise awareness of its climate education bill and the campaign more generally. They day that there will be “some great speakers, so it should be very fun and informative, as well as being an important act of protest.” It’s taking place in Westminster on Saturday 23rd July at…
Through two international sharing sessions, students in the United States met seven student teams in Africa who described the innovative projects they developed to overcome environmental and public health challenges in their communities. This international exchange of information among young scholars provided an opportunity for students at Nysmith School in Virginia to hear about environmental challenges in…
Neil Kitching has written for NAEE before, for example about climate optimism. Here he draws some of the themes of his blogs together. As ever with all our guest blogs, the view’s expressed are his and are not necessarily shared by the Association. In this article, I weave the various themes of my blogs together. …