Energy Trumps is a card game produced by the Centre for Alternative Technology, which enables players to learn more about different supplies of energy and the various positives and negatives features associated with each. There are cards on … gas, coal, oil, carbon capture, nuclear, passive solar, solar water heating, solar PV, CSP, liq bio…
Have you ever wondered how weather systems get their names? The Economist explains here. The picture is Hurricane Sandy as it headed for New York in October 2012. Our recent experience of Atlantic Storm Abigail was mild compared to Sandy when 200 people died and the cost was around $7bn. The article says that storms with…
A recent report in the Guardian’s Environment section said that 1.3bn tonnes of food, about a third of all that is produced, is wasted every year. This includes about 45% of all fruit and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, 20% of dairy products and 20% of meat. The Guardian also details a…
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, will be the keynote speaker at a Montessori conference in London on March 12th 2016, and he may be staying on for a few more days for other presentations. We’ll keep you informed. We think that there a quite a few children in the woods these days, but we do…
Ben Ballin, from Tide~ global learning, has contributed a post to the Cambridge Primary Review Blog. It’s titled From pessimism to hope: global learning and sustainability, and you can read it here. It begins: When the Cambridge Primary Review conducted its Community Soundings in 2007, it encountered a widespread sense of the world as a threatening place for children. The Review’s Final…
The Economist has a readable article on the current El Niño which is already wreaking its chaos on the world’s weather systems and economies. There’s a great map which shows that where the losers are from all this – and where the winners are as well, as El Niño is a double-edged sword with rich…
Rocky Rex is a new science blog that’s aimed at non-experts. It mixes climate change with other things, to illustrate that climate science is mainstream. The picture on the right shows Rocky. Recent posts are about the atmosphere, greenhouse gases, earthquakes and volcanoes, ice ages and glaciers, hurricanes and tropical storms, the oceans, natural cycles, and up-to-date data on climate…
Our President, Bill Scott, has been wondering why the global manager of Eco-schools – FEE – isn’t doing more to ensure that student learning is a more prominent focus of the Eco-schools movement. You can read the blog post – Questions for FEE – here. It begins … “I take the view that FEE needs to…
If you click here, you can see what Groundwork West Midlands has been up to recently. Green Space Transformation caught our eye, along with its new report: Growing and Green Space. This confirms that ‘practical involvement in growing and green space activities’ are a powerful tool to help vulnerable people address personal and social issues. What puzzles…
Today’s guest blog is by Geoffrey Guy who lectures at Reaseheath College. Geoff is the Director of Education for Bushcraft Education Ltd, and the founder of the Bushcraft Education blog. The Dartington Conference of 1975 aimed to give a definition of Outdoor Education [OE] that could be accepted by the industry and potentially justify its use in schools…
NAEE has published its latest e-journal, Environmental Education Vol 110, for its members. Contents include a number of regular features such as the President’s Column, reports from NAEE-sponsored field work by schools, book reviews and webwatch. Feature articles this time include: Hardwick Dene interpreted Steve Ashton Connecting young people to wetlands Rachel Carless Engaging…
France has launched a push for publicity in advance of December’s climate talks at the UN Climate Change Conference [COP21] that is taking place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. France has launched a diplomatic drive to push the international community towards reaching a global climate deal, and the country’s ambassadors in embassies and consulates across the…