Here’s a post from Ronald Rovers from last autumn. It’s about carbon budgets and begins:. Imagine what you would do, if by tomorrow you were allowed only half the CO2 budget you spend normally, including what you would need to reduce your energy demand like insulating the house or buying Solar panels… What would be…
The Soil Association’s Food for Life initiative has published a policy update. It’s here. We noted these: Food Research Collaboration submission to inquiry into Brexit, food and farming This paper, drawn up by the Food Research Collaboration, was submitted as evidence to the House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee inquiry into the implications…
Today’s blog comes from Lynn Reeve, Long Eaton School’s Eco-School Coordinator Every year we try and think of new, engaging activities for the students. Some of the highlights this year have been the Pestaurant and the mini farm. We love hosting this event and are so pleased that not only do we have local primary schools visiting…
NAAEE and its partners across North America have been conducting comprehensive literature reviews to explore the impact of environmental education on key outcome areas, and developing communication tools based on these reviews. Its first outcome is finished – eeWORKS: From Anecdotes to Evidence: Demonstrating the Impact of Environmental Education Stanford University’s analysis suggests that environmental education provides a wide array of benefits…
Click here to read the latest Children and Nature Research Digest. This is a new and welcome venture from CN&N, and there are features on: Creativity Education Environmental Concern Families Mental health Physical health and activity Play Social justice For example: Nature imagery promotes creativity High school students viewing…
In a recent Outward Bound Trust blog, Andrew Wilson shared his belief in the benefits of oudoor learning and explained how it can work in the context of an inner-city comprehensive. He began: “I’m going to put my cards on the table straight away; I am as passionate about learning in the outdoors as I am…
This important question was posed by Rob Bushby, the John Muir Trust’s Award Manager, in an article for the The Scotsman on January 13th. It appears in full on the JMT website. The article begins: “Children are disconnected from nature” has become something of a worrying mantra. We’re told that they spend less time out…
Here’s Ronald Rovers again. This time the blog is about the need to think again about what Brundtland said. It begins: “Maybe its understandable, but in fact a kind of ‘national narcism’: Solving the climate change problem, while maintaining all modern comfort and luxury, gained over the past 150 years by depleting an plundering resources…
The Outward Bound Trust publishes blogs on a wide range of issues that are relevant to its work. Its most recent one was on the “death of the graduate”, and looked at the issue of apprenticeships and recruitment to the outdoor learning industry. Other recent ones were on: Maths and the Mountains Education Investor Awards and…
Here’s Dutch blogger Ronald Rovers reflecting on our use of Christmas trees and the issue of what’s best: ‘real’ or artificial ones – or artificial real ones. It’s complex enough to write this, but much more so when you get into the issues, as RR does. Here’s the link. We’ll be featuring more from Ronald’s blog…
Can focusing on values in Sustainable Education result in a bigger impact?’ This question is asked by Luke Wynne, Head of Youth and Schools at Global Action Plan, in a recent guest blog on the SEEd website. It begins: “Values act as a kind of internal compass guiding us through our lives, shaping the way…
Here’s a blog from The Wildlife Trusts about good news for wildlife. It begins: “Today the European Commission agreed not to ‘open’ up the Birds and Habitats Directives (the ‘Nature Directives’) – these are key European wildlife protection laws which had been the subject of a review into their effectiveness. Opening up these laws to further…