Today’s post is by NAEE trustee, David Dixon, long-serving headteacher and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David reflects on his visit to the Festival of Education at Wellington College back in July. As with all our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily…
COP28 News – There will be a Youth, Children, Education and Skills day at COP28. The COP28 Presidency has announced its two-week thematic programme which will be “geared towards real world solutions that close the gaps to 2030 and respond to the Global Stocktake”. As a result, December 8 2023 will be the first time there is a day…
Politicians in the UK have made many big promises for nature, but the Westminster Government’s own advisors agree: they’re not doing enough to improve the natural world. That’s why, ahead of the next General Election, over 70 environmental charities have joined forces to create a five-point plan for decision-makers. Their aim is to see this…
The following article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. You can read the original article. It was written by: Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath; Caroline Verfuerth, Cardiff University, and Steve Westlake, Cardiff University. The original article (with images) is here. The article begins: Amid headlines of wildfires raging across Europe and…
ESD-Net 2030 – On May 31st, the Unesco Learning Webinar welcomed over 300 participants as part of the four workshops on personal leadership for change, creative problem-solving, and play-based activities. The sessions were led by ESD partners: Soneva Namoona, the World’s Largest Lesson, Global Schools Program, and WWF Sweden/Kenya, who facilitated conversations and activities on a variety of pedagogical…
There has been much consideration and controversy recently about the AMOC – the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation – which is the Atlantic current that distributes heat around the world, and great confusion about how this differs from the Gulf Stream. Indeed, an opinion article in The Times even managed to confuse the two by saying…
What if every country promoted electric cars like Norway, reforested like Costa Rica, promoted cycling like Holland, invested in renewable energy like Paraguay and ate a vegetarian diet like many people in India? Could this solve our climate crisis? So begins a post by Neil Kitching who blogs at www.carbonchoices.uk . He expands on these and…
IUCN Webinar – On Monday (July 31st), the monthly IUCN webinar is an update on the DfE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy presented by Dr Laura Soul and Dr Jade Gunnell. Sign on details here c/o Eventbright. . Spark of Active Citizenship – Young Citizens has a vision of a society where people are empowered to shape their communities and institutions to…
The North American Association for Environmental Education [ NAAEE ] has a brilliant programme that recognises young people who are making a significant contribution to environmental education and the world. You can learn more about it here. This is how Joseph Sarvary, Class of 2018, begins his recent reflection on the impact of the awards…
There have always been mixed views on whether Ofsted should be judging schools on their sustainability work. Those who support this see that being taken seriously by Ofsted is a good thing as it confers a sort of respectability on what is being looked at: it’s obviously as important as maths, the argument goes. Others…