This is a link to the NAAEE website, our sibling organisation in North America (covering the USA, Mexico and Canada). It has strong links with the US EPA: the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of these connections are financial; others are less tangible, but just as significant. It’s a relationship that we in the UK have had…
The Guardian says, take the green news quiz. Here are the first two questions: 1– In February, a consortium of businesses and environmental groups, including Kimberly Clark and Canada’s Globe and Mail, won a 16-year fight to restrict logging in which rainforest? Great Bear, British Columbia Tongass National Forest, Alaska Hoh Rainforest, Washington Mount Hood,…
This is a beautiful book (I could not put it down), as well as being an important work about a very important subject. Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that humans rely on. Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants; their economic contributions are measured in the…
Morgan Phillips is organising a meeting to explore “The Environment in Brexit Britain”. It’s in London on 21st March at 1830. You can book here. More detail: “This is a disorientating moment for the U.K. Sweeping change seems inevitable. Immediate concerns dominate the news and our consciousness – health, trade, education, housing, economic and foreign…
The RSPB’s Big garden birdwatch starts today. Last year over 500,000 people joined in.
Here’s PART 3 of the latest round up of recent and relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items issued by the partnership of Natural England, The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom and Historic England on behalf of and for the Strategic Research Groups. This supports the…
Here are some recent Articles: LET’S #OPTOUTSIDE 365 DAYS A YEAR: 7 New Ways THE NEW NATURE MOVEMENT, AFTER 11/8 12 PRINCIPLES FOR A NATURE-RICH CITY SCHOOL OF NATURE: 8 Ways to Jumpstart a Great School Year with a Dose of Vitamin N A CHALLENGE: Make Your Local School the Best in Your State (or…
The mammals in question are the quite dissimilar Giant and Red Pandas, and the Economist has a report of a study looking at how these quirky animals evolved. They are both vegetarian carnivores with 6 digits that eat bamboo. Read on …
In May, NAEE will have a vacancy for a trustee on its governing board. This is the trustee person spec: Essential An NAEE Trustee will be … a professionally active, experienced UK-based practitioner and / or researcher in environmental education or a closely-related field well known and respected, and someone whose…
FSC Bishops Wood is hosting the National Forest Education Network Conference this year on March 23rd. Join them in Worcestershire for an update on the ‘state’ of our woodlands and learn about the latest regarding tree disease, management planning for educational users of woodland, tree planting and care in changing times and identification and all those apps!…