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BERA is the British Educational Research Association. Cait Talbot-Landers, Edge Hill University and Bethan Garrett, Lancaster University have written a post for a special issue of the BERA blog: Teachers are doing it for themselves: Developing Beach School approaches to support an effective climate change curriculum. This is how it begins. "Zac [...]

The University of Bath's Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment [ I-SEE] runs fortnightly webinars in term times. The list for 2024 up to the end of October is listed below. Registration if via Eventbright and all meetings run from 1630 to 1730. There is no charge. 2024 Webinars [...]

We occasionally feature the writings of Ronald Rovers, a Dutch commenter on sustainability. A recent post focused on whether, in a spirit of fairness, EU countries should grow grapes, soybeans, or solar panels. It's a question for us as well. You can read it here. It begins: "I’m sitting on a [...]

Steve Hurley writes the Explaining Science blog, and we have featured his work over the years. He has been writing recently about COP 28 and carbon dioxide. His post began: "Like many of you, in December last year I followed with interest the news reports from COP28. As it concluded, there was much written [...]

The idea of using off-sets to counter the emission of carbon dioxide is a controversial topic. It used to be fashionable, for example, to pay a few pounds every time you got on a plane for someone to plant some trees somewhere to absorb all that CO2 on your behalf. [...]

Every year NUS surveys UK students nationally on their attitudes towards, and expectations on, sustainability. Consistently more than 60% of students report that they want to learn more about sustainability, regardless of their academic discipline, with a clear preference for sustainability to be woven into existing course content rather than [...]

We have been showing the contents of Canada's Green Teacher magazine for a long time, and are sad to see that it has come to the end of its publication. However, subscribers will continue to have full access to the archives containing more than 550 articles and 130 webinars. Each [...]

We irregularly feature the work of Denise Baden in our blogs and other output (see here and here). Denise is Professor of Sustainable Practice at the University of Southampton with a particular interest and expertise in climate fiction. In a recent post on her website, she reflects on her time [...]

In today's post, with a bit of help from Philip Larkin, Bill Scott – who recently stood down as our Chair of Trustees at the 2023 AGM – reveals how he spend part of his Christmas holidays. As ever with our blogs, his views are not necessarily shared by the [...]

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 [...]

This is Teach the Future's end of year update. With only a few days left of 2023, we wanted to get in touch with a quick update on our work over the past few months, rounding off an amazing 2023 and prepping for 2024 to be our most impactful yet. [...]

Click here to read Quinn Runkle's blog from COP28. Quinn is Director of Education at Students Organising for Sustainability. This is how it begins: Over the weekend, the SOS-UK team all arrived home from Dubai, having concluded our programme of engagements with the first-ever Children, Youth, Education & Skills Day. [...]