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…
There has been much consideration and controversy recently about the AMOC – the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation – which is the Atlantic current that distributes heat around the world, and great confusion about how this differs from the Gulf Stream. Indeed, an opinion article in The Times even managed to confuse the two by saying…
What if every country promoted electric cars like Norway, reforested like Costa Rica, promoted cycling like Holland, invested in renewable energy like Paraguay and ate a vegetarian diet like many people in India? Could this solve our climate crisis? So begins a post by Neil Kitching who blogs at www.carbonchoices.uk . He expands on these and…
The North American Association for Environmental Education [ NAAEE ] has a brilliant programme that recognises young people who are making a significant contribution to environmental education and the world. You can learn more about it here. This is how Joseph Sarvary, Class of 2018, begins his recent reflection on the impact of the awards…
There have always been mixed views on whether Ofsted should be judging schools on their sustainability work. Those who support this see that being taken seriously by Ofsted is a good thing as it confers a sort of respectability on what is being looked at: it’s obviously as important as maths, the argument goes. Others…