Wildlife Trust History
The Wildlife Trusts website has an informative section on the history of each of the 47 Wildlife Trusts. And there’s a page devoted to 100 years in pictures of the Wildlife Trusts’ work.
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Do you need some carbon emissions data?
If so, then look at the GlobalCarbonAtlas. It is hard to do justice in words to the richness of the data that this site has to offer by way of per-country emissions. Not only can you look at total emissions, but at the contribution of different fuels as well. Then you can change the data to…
Funding for geography field trips
The deadline for applying for fieldwork funding with the Frederick Soddy Trust Schools Award Scheme is January 18th. The Trust was established in 1957 under the terms set out in the will of the chemist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Frederick Soddy FRS. It aims to encourage interest in field studies by providing modest financial support for expeditions…
Nine new Ambassador Schools in England
Eco-Schools has announced the nine schools that will hold its Ambassador role for the next two years. These are the exceptional schools across England that have been chosen to represent the Eco Schools programme, and encourage new schools to join. To be considered for the role, the schools must have held the Eco-Schools Green Flag award for four consecutive years. The idea…
The UN’s Lazy Person’s Guide
The UN has published The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World. Apparently, this guides us on how we can all on how to save the world, without even moving from the sofa, although if you want to move from Level 1 to Level 3, you will have to move around. The UN website says: End extreme poverty. Fight…
100 years of the National Geographic
National Geographic magazine is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the US National Park Service with a year-long exploration of the parks. The January 2016 edition features day-to-night images of landmarks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park, by Stephen Wilkes who uses digital-imaging technology to create time-spanning panoramas, continuously shooting thousands of images day…
Mothering nature
Mothering Nature – the shape of things to come is the title of an article by MIT’s Neri Oxman in The World in 2016. It begins: Imagine that you could actually grow the future. By bringing together design and technology, we can, in effect, edit biology—and create physical objects that point to the shape of…
To make things better, just make better things
Here is the latest newsletter from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation with stories about: German worms devouring food waste smart hybrid electric buildings in the USA LED LiFi technology – and more Although what the Foundation does is not directly related to environmental education, we think that what it does relates to how we might come…
Latest from the FEN
You can read the latest Forest Education Network [FEN] update here. FEN began in 2012, and seeks to engage young people by supporting education in forest and woodland settings. It also promotes networking and sharing practice, and facilitates communication between sectors and practitioners. FEN is hosted by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC).
A new approach to cleaning the oceans
Garbage in, garbage out – a big test for an innovative approach to remove plastic trash from the ocean is a feature article by Alun Anderson in The World in 2016. In 2016 the Ocean Cleanup project is planning to build a 2km floating boom off the island of Tsushima in Japan. If it can remove floating…