Janet Owen The Earth Museum is an experimental not-for-profit enterprise with a vision to create a virtual learning resource which can be used in every home, classroom, museum and place, sharing and connecting the world’s cultural and natural heritage with people and places; empowering us to understand each other and look after the planet better.…
New Learners Council – The FED is looking to recruit current learners in England, “from a diversity of voices, backgrounds and experiences”, to join its Learners Council; specifically: Up to 10 young people aged 16-18 Up to two learners aged 25+ who are in full-time or part-time education The Council will focus on the English education…
The Educators Trust Trust Awards 2024 Robert J. Jones Award Theme: Environmental Education Guidance for Nominators The Trust of the Worshipful Company of Educators wishes to confer an award for outstanding and inspirational practitioners in environmental education. The award is generously supported by Dr Peter Warren CBE, Past Master of the Company and is named after his teacher…
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…