Small Space Rewilding

A recent Times Environment feature focused on small space rewilding.  This is what it said: “A new study demonstrates the impact on wildlife of nurturing small spaces. Much is written about the benefits of mass rewilding projects, across vast swathes of land. But scientists at the University of Melbourne found that a mere 12 months after an…

Green Teacher

The Summer edition of Green Teacher magazine is now published. Its contents are here (with the freely-available articles included) Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Gillian Petrini (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Elementary School Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Chloe Faught (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Secondary School Outstanding Science Trade Books for Environmental Literacy by William Straits (Free Article)A…

4th September 2023

This week’s news round up is deliberately brief as befits the end of Summer. It focuses on DfE, Ofsted, COP28 and EAUC developments. Concrete Things – As if dealing with dodgy concrete weren’t enough for the DfE, after Claire Coutinho went on to higher things, a new education minister has had to be appointed. David…

Anti-greenwash Education

The Sustainability Team at the University of Gloucestershire recently shared the outputs and resources from their recent QAA funded partnership project: Students Driving Curriculum Quality for Sustainability. The project used student co-creation to develop and test a framework of simple quality principles for assessing the integration of sustainability learning, that can work for any course…