Wild about Gardens
Project Dirt is promoting the Wild about Gardens week. This runs from October 26th to November 1st. What will you be doing? If you want to organise an event, click here.
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New model for outdoor learning?
How do we create meaningful outdoor learning experiences which lead to sustainable behaviour change? The Real World Learning Network has spent the last three years exploring this question, and among the many outcomes is a model to support educators in reflecting and improving their provision of outdoor learning. The network says that the model brings together…
Latest Circular Economy News
Here are the latest stories from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. We noted the following: Why Soil is the Key to Feeding the World Turning Waste Cotton Into A New Fibre Tesla’s Powerwall batteries to be Available by End of 2015
Natural Connections Blog
Have you seen the new Natural Connections Outdoor Learning blog? It aims to bring together bloggers who are researchers or practitioners in learning in natural environments (LINE), to share their practice, evidence findings and enthusiasm for outdoor learning in schools. The aim of this blog is to build on the collaborative model that has been developed through…
Edinburgh’s EcoFair
Details of the event on Sunday are available in Project Dirt’s latest newsletter. Other features include Truro and Falmouth Green Open Homes day (all next week) when people in Truro and Falmouth and places in between will be opening their homes to show what energy improvements they have made. There will be a variety of homes, from eco…
New App from the UK Soil Observatory
The mySoil app and UK Soil Observatory (UKSO) web based data viewer are free information platforms with a range of data from leading soil research institutes around the UK. They offer free to view soil data and maps, and provide the opportunity for you to contribute your own data and help build better information on…
NAEE meets Eco-Schools at Nunnery Wood
An NAEE team will be at the Eco-Schools Roadshow at Nunnery Wood High School, Worcester, today. This is the second Roadshow we have been at in the last couple of weeks, and it will no doubt be another stimulating event with the opportunity to talk with teachers and NGO staff. An opportunity, as well, to see an Eco-School…
Royal Forestry Society Awards
The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) Excellence in Forestry Awards have been made for 2015. You can read all about them here. The awards are the premier woodland management competition for England and Wales and in 2015 were held across Wales. RFS has also announced that Prof Ted Wilson has joined it as education manager, bringing with…
All about seeds and caterpillars
A Seed in Need, is part of the Little Bees information picture book series, this beautifully illustrated and well-laid out book perfectly reinforces the stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant. The information about the stages snakes its way across each page, and additional facts are drawn out through a conversation between an…
Educating at the Scottish Dolphin Centre
Lorna Hall, education and outreach officer at Whale & Dolphin Conservation [WDC], writes about its Scottish education programme based at Spey Bay on the beautiful Moray coastline. WDC is a leading global charity dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins. Its Scottish education programme facilitates experiential education through a variety of methods, encouraging learning and active conservation. Located at the mouth…