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Jennifer Rudd of Swansea University makes the case for ensuring that learners with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive appropriately adapted climate and sustainability education. Climate change and sustainability education (CCSE) resources are being developed and delivered globally and locally by people passionate about ensuring that climate change is talked [...]

The Curriculum and Assessment Review marks progress in recognising climate change and sustainability, but does it go far enough? This blog examines its limitations and argues for greater ambition, transformative pedagogy and a whole-curriculum approach to climate and nature education.

I began this series of posts talking about 5 items that I feel are an essential start to creating a sustainable world - the basics needed to transform the world starting from a localized and grassroots framework.

A key idea to develop a positive focus is what the best-case scenario looks like. For many, that would be to develop a caring, sharing society where corruption and money do not dominate our lives, which of course is the current worse-case scenario we are currently living.

Sicily is an island in the Mediterranean, to the south-west of Italy. It is about the size of Wales with a population of six million. It has an interesting history, full of Greek and Roman ruins, but today is one of Italy’s poorest regions with high unemployment. Persistent levels of corruption deter business investment, although tourism is growing.

Out of all the things that should occupy our focus, food and energy are the two most crucial – we eat everyday (if we are lucky enough to live in a developed country with a regular income, and constantly use energy since nearly everything we use requires regular, consistent energy supply.

Solar power is cheap and clean. Solar pv is the fastest growing energy source on the Planet and will soon become ubiquitous. In this blog I explain why.

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 are [...]

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 are [...]

Here are my top 12 favourite quotes about the climate crisis.  By Neil Kitching Ambition “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”  John F. Kennedy, 1961 A clear [...]

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 are [...]

Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by NAEE. “The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve… We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a [...]