Reviewed by Professor William Scott Just how bad are bananas? I don’t mean as a food; that’s quite a different question. I’m referring to carbon footprints. You might have wondered about this as you unzipped that most convenient and ubiquitous of fruits, given that it will have been carted half-way across the planet to sit…
Scotland and Equity – The Equity Toolkit from Education Scotland [Foghlam Alba] aims to provide an accessible and adaptable resource for local and sectoral needs to support the new mission of the Scottish Attainment Challenge. The Toolkit has been designed to support practitioners and decision making. . Learning Conversations – Foghlam Alba [Education Scotland] says listen to its Interim Chief…
Neil Kitching’s latest blog is about his experience of going ‘all electric’ in 2023 – heat pump, solar pv, battery, electric car and smart meter. As Neil’s regular readers will suspect, this is a thorough and honest evaluation of 12 months of what is an (almost) all-electric experience. There are a lot of positives reported…
BERA is the British Educational Research Association. Cait Talbot-Landers, Edge Hill University and Bethan Garrett, Lancaster University have written a post for a special issue of the BERA blog: Teachers are doing it for themselves: Developing Beach School approaches to support an effective climate change curriculum. This is how it begins. “Zac Goldsmith’s controversial resignation letter in 2023 was…
Flipboard – EarthDay is now promoting its school resources on Flipboard. . DfE Update – Here’s a link to the February Climate in Education Snapshot from the DfE’s Sustainability and Climate Change Unit. This includes features on: Sustainable drainage / Student-led climate action / Ground-source heat pumps in schools / Apps for Good . COP28 Reflections – UNESCO’s latest newsletter is here. It includes a focus…
The University of Bath’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment [ I-SEE] runs fortnightly webinars in term times. The list for 2024 up to the end of October is listed below. Registration if via Eventbright and all meetings run from 1630 to 1730. There is no charge. 2024 Webinars 6 February: Professor Sir Brian…
Climate Change & Sustainability: curriculum, careers, culture, community & CPD – An invitation from the FED to join a free online breakfast seminar (it begins at 0900), held on March 14th in partnership with Hays Education,. It will be showcasing the FED’s Climate Change and Sustainability Toolkit. Speakers include Emma Knights OBE, NAEE Chair of Trustees Dr Paul Vare, Cemil Cihan Ozalevli, Claire Pritchard and Nicholas Mort. You can register…
We occasionally feature the writings of Ronald Rovers, a Dutch commenter on sustainability. A recent post focused on whether, in a spirit of fairness, EU countries should grow grapes, soybeans, or solar panels. It’s a question for us as well. You can read it here. It begins: “I’m sitting on a terrace on the borders of the Moselle, tasting some local wine. And…
British Council – Here’s the latest British Council Schools newsletter. . Visioning – You may already have a vision for your school, but do you have one for your outdoor area? Creating a vision statement asks learners to imagine what they’d like the future of the site to look like. This can help during idea generation, as well as to…
Steve Hurley writes the Explaining Science blog, and we have featured his work over the years. He has been writing recently about COP 28 and carbon dioxide. His post began: “Like many of you, in December last year I followed with interest the news reports from COP28. As it concluded, there was much written in the media about whether…