Thanks to Slugger O’Tool for alerting us to three projects at Queen’s University Belfast that are addressing Urban Green and Blue Space (UGBS) and nature-based solutions. These are: The SPACE project is investigating environmental factors (e.g., air, noise, and light pollution) and how they can impact our brain health as we age, specifically looking at, and engaging…
Nikki Burton Mallott The remit of a conservation educator is to connect audiences with the natural world and encourage the uptake of positive environmental behaviors. At Knowsley Safari, we are looking to achieve this more broadly in our community. Two approaches have been explored: 1. An integrated approach to nature, health and wellbeing 2. Framing conservation through…
The John Muir Award has a blog which showcases and celebrates its own work and the work of member groups too. Here is a link to recent posts from Glasgow Kelvin College. You can see the Award’s latest updates here.
New Conversations – The latest edition of Elephant Times is now available. This shares the experience and some of the ideas from a conference that brought students and teachers together from a variety of schools in South Wales. Recent Tide~ work has focused on the educational implications of the climate crisis and the conference evolved from that work. The challenge now…
Our World in Data has been updating its ability to use ‘interactive data visualizations’ in its work. A good way to see this is in its display of per capita CO2 emissions from 1750 to 2021. You can select the countries whose data you wish to study and then see these as maps, tables and charts. You can…
Leesa Pratt & Jools Farrell In 1985, sixty-two False Killer Whales [a species of dolphin: Pseudorca crassidens] stranded at Crowdy Head on the north coast of New South Wales. The whales were being thrown around and bashed to death on the rocks by the surf, with rescuers struggling in the appalling conditions. Taking matters into…
Reviewed by Henricus Peters The Natural History Museum – that cathedral to the natural world and its multiple wonders – has done it again, with this quirky collection of weird factual stories. It will come as no surprise that the team of experts at NHM London has come forth with this sound volume to answer…
Net Zero Schools – This week Teach the Future launched its report with Energise on the cost of net zero schools. Teach the Future wants to see all schools in the UK decarbonised as they say that this will reduce their climate impact and save money in the long term. Doing this, they say, will also allow education buildings to…
“Education, Climate, Action” – was a teacher-led event in London last Monday aimed at bringing organisations together. NAEE President, Prof Justin Dillon was there and here are his thoughts on the event. As ever with our blogs the ideas expressed are not necessarily those of the Association. Ian, the chemistry teacher from a local school,…
The Labour Party’s Policy Framework has appeared on line. This is the party’s policy platform which is set to shape its next manifesto. As anticipated following much lobbying, Teach the Future’s main asks are contained within it as headlines: Integrate learning about climate change and sustainability throughout the curriculum in schools and on vocational courses…