Is the world safer today? Is it the beginning of the end for King Coal and the Oil Oligarchs? Will the waters stop rising in the Pacific islands? Does the UK have a strategy to meet it Paris obligations? Should we feel optimistic? Etc. There are probably more questions here than clear answers. Here’s what…
The Government is to create a national litter strategy to help address the dreadful litter problem that is found across the whole country. This has been welcomed by Keep Britain Tidy, which says it reflects its campaigning for government leadership on the issue of litter. However, KBT thinks that the Government should have taken specific action on littering from vehicles…
A couple of months ago, we reported on a conference in Telford that NAEE attended: Growing up Green and Global. Now, a 10 minute video of the events has been released on YouTube. It’s here with an introduction from Chris Southwood who put the whole thing together.
For every 1,000 cards dropped into one of its stores in January, M&S will fund the Woodland Trust to plant a tree. The charity and M&S have set an ambitious target to collect and recycle more than six million Christmas cards, which would mean more than 6,000 new trees in the ground. Julia Bradbury is setting up her…
An international conference: Education as a Driver for Sustainable Development Goals is being organized by Centre for Environment Education (CEE), in partnership with UNESCO, UNEP and the Government of India. The Conference will take place from January 11-13, 2016. It aims to bring together global experience and expertise to “highlight and strengthen the role of education” in realizing…
Huge congratulations to NAEE trustee and Coventry environmentalist and artist Gabrielle Back, who has been honoured as an International Green World Ambassador at a presentation ceremony at the Houses of Parliament. This recognition comes as a result of the success of Gabrielle’s Creative Recycling and Climate Change Surveyance project, which has won an International Green Apple…
Exploring Global Issues: Social, Economic, and Environmental Interconnections is a student text and teacher’s Guide CD from the USA. The text includes 24 chapters on topics such as food, water, economics, governance, health, air, globalization, and sustainable design. In addition to case studies, career profiles, and youth-as-heroes features, readings intentionally interweave social, environmental, and economic threads…
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…