To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Conservative Party election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet, which is why since 2010 we…
To save you the trouble of all that searching, here’s what the Lib Dems election manifesto has to say about education, and about environmental / climate / sustainability / global / etc education – see text in bold. Liberal Democrats believe that education is the best investment we can make in our children’s potential and…
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 not necessarily shared by NAEE.…
NAEE published an earlier version of this post two years ago arguing that it seemed plausible to think of five essential elements to teaching and learning about climate change. What follows here is an updated version of the original with the five elements remaining unchanged. Five Elements What is climate? What’s the evidence for global…
Teach the Future volunteer, Mystaya Brémaud has shared her perspective on why it’s important for young people to talk to parliamentary candidates about climate education. You can read the blog here. It begins: “Young people often feel hidden by a wall of headlines: the mainstream media voices our statistics more often than our opinions, making our every…
Here’s an additional update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration…
The Conversation had a recent feature on books to inspire climate action. The books highlighted were: Fairhaven Fairhaven is a novel of climate optimism by Steve Willis and Jan Lee set in Malaysia. Through the eyes of an engineer turned celebrity, it sets out a blueprint for how low-lying countries can protect themselves against rising sea…
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 not necessarily shared by NAEE.…
Here’s an update from Natural England by way of relevant evidence and reports, policy agenda developments, large scale delivery sector initiatives, resources and news items from the UK and abroad, with a focus on schools, education and learning. This supports the Strategic Research Network for People and Nature to develop better coherence and collaboration in…
We occasionally feature the writings of Ronald Rovers, a Dutch commenter on sustainability. A 2023 post focused on whether it makes sense for a country in the northern latitudes to grow vines, or soybeans, or to house solar panels. This is how it begins: “I’m sitting on a terrace on the borders of the Moselle, tasting some local wine. And looking out over…