This question was recently sent to the SHED-SHARE JISCMail: “Dear all, I have a question about the language that our institutions use in relation to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). I see some institutions using Education for Sustainability (EfS) instead of ESD and would love to know if there is a reason that one phrase is used…
The Royal Society has published a report exploring large scale electricity storage. The Executive Summary begins with a useful clarification of the problem we face: The UK Government has a stated ambition to decarbonise the electricity system by 2035 and is committed to reaching net zero by 2050. As Great Britain’s electricity supply is decarbonised,…
The DfE-funded National Education Nature Park and Climate Action Awards aim to empower children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and to nature’s future. These free programmes aim to put nature at the heart of education by providing educators with support and guidance to give every learner in England…
A recent Times Environment feature focused on small space rewilding. This is what it said: “A new study demonstrates the impact on wildlife of nurturing small spaces. Much is written about the benefits of mass rewilding projects, across vast swathes of land. But scientists at the University of Melbourne found that a mere 12 months after an…
The Summer edition of Green Teacher magazine is now published. Its contents are here (with the freely-available articles included) Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Gillian Petrini (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Elementary School Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Chloe Faught (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Secondary School Outstanding Science Trade Books for Environmental Literacy by William Straits (Free Article)A…
The Sustainability Team at the University of Gloucestershire recently shared the outputs and resources from their recent QAA funded partnership project: Students Driving Curriculum Quality for Sustainability. The project used student co-creation to develop and test a framework of simple quality principles for assessing the integration of sustainability learning, that can work for any course…
NAEE’s manifesto for young people’s learning and the environment was launched in 2022. Its purpose is to build on existing work in schools and colleges and further stimulate change in thinking and practice. Doing this means that young people can be even better prepared to meet the social and environmental challenges they will face through…
Today’s post by regular contributor, Richard Jurin, is a follow up to two recent posts about Faustian bargains we have made. 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.…
What do you think are the main problems and challenges faced by sustainability and environmental education? You’ll have a view, as do we. We decided to ask Claude AI. Here’s what emerged: Limited funding and resources Environmental education initiatives often lack adequate funding and resources from both government and private sources. This restricts their operations and…
Today’s post is by NAEE trustee, David Dixon, long-serving headteacher and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). David reflects on his visit to the Festival of Education at Wellington College back in July. As with all our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily…
Politicians in the UK have made many big promises for nature, but the Westminster Government’s own advisors agree: they’re not doing enough to improve the natural world. That’s why, ahead of the next General Election, over 70 environmental charities have joined forces to create a five-point plan for decision-makers. Their aim is to see this…
The following article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. You can read the original article. It was written by: Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath; Caroline Verfuerth, Cardiff University, and Steve Westlake, Cardiff University. The original article (with images) is here. The article begins: Amid headlines of wildfires raging across Europe and…