In 2021, the UK Schools Sustainability Network took over 20 teenagers from across the UK to COP26. As this isn’t feasible this year, it is hoping that anyone heading to Egypt – or who has contacts there – can pass on the UKSSN’s ‘asks’ of COP27 in general and of the UK delegation. These are set out in…
Elephant Times and ~Tide are organising a series of webinars throughout November. here are the details: school initiatives? 6.30 Tuesday 15th November Tim Brighouse, Mick Waters and people in school leadership roles, including those from Bosworth Academy – Leicestershire, Barrowford Primary – Lancashire, and Windsor Academy – West Midlands, will start the conversation. What we can learn…
Here we feature some of the Climate Change Education Events at the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) which takes place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from 6-18 November. UNESCO says that the complexities of climate change require a holistic approach, the sort that UNESCO provides though its longstanding expertise combining science, education, culture, and communication and information.…
RCE Scotland is Scotland’s Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development and part of a global network of RCEs which allows regions and countries to share and learn from each other, and to establish or strengthen international partnerships. It is part of the Moray House School of Education campus in Edinburgh. It launched in November…
The Fall edition of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine (Vol 133) has now been published. There are two freely available articles: Don’t Worry; BEE Happy by Frank GlewAn outdoor honey bee simulation game Finding Ecohappiness in the Classroom by Sandi Schwartz Nature-related mindfulness tools to help students manage stress …………………………………………………… Other articles (full text available only to subscribers…
The University of Bath runs Zoom seminars every fortnight during term time. These are organised by the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment – I-SEE. They are all recorded and available to view after the event. The next seminars are: 18 October Professor Kimberley Nicholas, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies Facing Climate Change…
Neil Kitching asks: Why has the cost of energy for our homes gone up so much? Why has an increase in the price of natural gas affected the cost of electricity? He says: welcome to the wonderful world of energy economics, which he tries to explain as simply as he can. Neil has written for…
Teach the Future has published its Curriculum for a Changed Climate: track changes review of the National Curriculum for England. This reviews the curriculum for key stages 3 and 4 in the National Curriculum. Using a ‘tracked changes’ methodology the report suggests where and how the national curriculum can be amended to include sustainability and respond…
Today’s post is by Elsa Lee (with inspiration from Paul Vare, Alex Catallo, the consortium of collaborators working on the Curriculum for a Changing Climate project, Teach the Future, and SOS-UK). Elsa is NAEE’s deputy director. In the post she writes about the recent track change research for Teach the Future which saw key national…
Today’s post is by Richard Jurin who, before his retirement, ran the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, launching a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. Today he writes about the idea of emergy. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are…