Calling Bristol Youth – The Festival of Nature 2024 is recruiting young people aged 16 – 24 living in the Bristol area, to join its new Youth Panel which will help shape this year’s Festival. The role description with details of what to expect is here. To register your interest, complete this short online form. . Climate Simulation – A short video of Scotland’s successful British Council COP28 Climate…
We irregularly feature the work of Denise Baden in our blogs and other output (see here and here). Denise is Professor of Sustainable Practice at the University of Southampton with a particular interest and expertise in climate fiction. In a recent post on her website, she reflects on her time at COP28, and we share…
Classroom Conservation – WWF invites us to join its 18th January Conservation in the Classroom livestream with WWF Youth Conservation Leadership Award winner and youth activist, Alexia Leclercq, as this will “inspire … students to contribute meaningfully to their communities and planet.” During this event, Alexia will share their own activism journey, discuss the important history of civic engagement, and highlight…
In today’s post, with a bit of help from Philip Larkin, Bill Scott – who recently stood down as our Chair of Trustees at the 2023 AGM – reveals how he spend part of his Christmas holidays. As ever with our blogs, his views are not necessarily shared by the Association. I an idle post-Christmas…
Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. Before his retirement, Richard led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by…
This is Teach the Future’s end of year update. With only a few days left of 2023, we wanted to get in touch with a quick update on our work over the past few months, rounding off an amazing 2023 and prepping for 2024 to be our most impactful yet. We rely on volunteers and…
Click here to read Quinn Runkle’s blog from COP28. Quinn is Director of Education at Students Organising for Sustainability. This is how it begins: Over the weekend, the SOS-UK team all arrived home from Dubai, having concluded our programme of engagements with the first-ever Children, Youth, Education & Skills Day. We now watch with trepidation…
How can Wales decarbonise faster? This is a question that is being answered by an independent group that was commissioned by the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru in 2022. The group is made up of academics, business people, third sector and public sector employees and is looking at pathways to Net Zero Wales by 2035, fifteen…
This is a press release from Tide~ Global Learning. Tide~ global learning is a network of teachers and educators. The Elephant Times is our magazine. At the time of COP27, we began a series of online conversations about the educational implications of climate change. This engaged teachers, academics, and education leaders, culminating in two events in…
Rewired – Last week, Teachers for the Planet launched a website with 100 global climate education solutions. Green Schools Project’s Zero Carbon Schools programme is featured alongside others from the UK. It was launched at the Rewired summit at COP28. . Requires Improvement – The House of Lords Committee on Education for 11–16 Year Olds has published its latest report:Requires improvement: urgent…