Victorian Visions
Today's post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David is Tynedale's Bicycle Mayor. As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. If time travellers from [...]
On a Lane in Spring
Friday was International Poetry Day. To celebrate it here's John Clare's On a Lane in Spring. As usual with Clare, the punctuation is minimalist. A Little Lane, the brook runs close besideAnd spangles in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly byAnd hedges leafing with the green spring tideFrom out [...]
Buy Nothing New Month
Today's post is by Dr Ian Humphreys, the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. It was an eventful start to 2024 for us at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful [...]
Spring Global Days
The Globe is the news update from the Global Dimension website, a free online library of global teaching resources that is produced by Reboot the Future. Reboot's output for March focuses on respect and dignity. It says, find great conversation starters and classroom resources below to help you enrich your teaching this month [...]
Global Warming and Eunice Foote
The American Institute of Physics's (Neils Bohr Library) has a focus on how the phenomenon of global warming has been researched and discovered. This includes milestones in a timeline. This is how it begins: 1800-1870 Level of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in the atmosphere, as later measured in ancient ice, is [...]
Through a Glass Darkly: Part 4 – A New World Begun
Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. Before his retirement, Richard led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are [...]
Global warming is a hot topic in every classroom
This was the headline in the recent Sunday Times and the sub-head was: Schools are responding to surveys showing that children want to learn more about climate change — and how to stop it. This is how it began: Last year was the warmest since global records began, at 1.18C [...]
February Education Nature Park News
Key messages, resources and events in February The National Education Nature Park empowers young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future, through creating a network of green spaces in schools, nurseries and colleges across the country. Young people lead the way in taking action [...]
Animal Migration
The latest edition of The Conversation's Imagine newsletter is a feature on animal migration by Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor. This is how it begins: "Throughout Earth's long history, myriad beings have taken flight when conditions became too harsh – as seeds or spores, or on feet, paws, wings and [...]
Deposit Returns
Dr Ian Humphreys is the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. He recently wrote a post for the Slugger O'Toole blog on the idea of a Deposit Return Scheme. This is how it begins: "An ambitious new initiative has come into force in the Republic of [...]
How Bad are Bananas
Just how bad are bananas? I don’t mean as a food; that’s quite a different question. I’m referring to carbon footprints. You might have wondered about this as you unzipped that most convenient and ubiquitous of fruits, given that it will have been carted half-way across the planet to sit in your kitchen.
Going Electric
Neil Kitching's latest blog is about his experience of going 'all electric' in 2023 – heat pump, solar pv, battery, electric car and smart meter. As Neil's regular readers will suspect, this is a thorough and honest evaluation of 12 months of what is an (almost) all-electric experience. There are [...]
