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…
Last year, in a post on the Our Shared World website, John McLaverty (Oxfam GB) and Safia Mizon Thioune (Protection Approaches) argue that the DfE impartiality guidance provides a narrow interpretation of the 1996 Education Act and engenders confusion, rather than clarity, over the responsibility of educators to foster democratic and active citizenship. These are…
The poet, John Clare, was born into a largely illiterate labouring family in Helpston, Northamptonshire, 230 years ago today. His poetry covered nature, folk literature, social injustice, and the inner self, and he was a unique observer of what England was like in the early nineteenth century. In his late teens an Enclosure Act altered the nature of the…
You might have seen an email recently from WWF international which says: A new threat faces our ocean. Deep seabed mining would not only interrupt the intricate rhythm of the ocean, but also threatens generations to come with its impacts. We need to make a stand, to protect the beauty of our seas – together.…