Today’s blog is by Henricus Peters, NAEE’s social media & e-journal editor. From 31 May to 3 June 2016, experts from nearly 40 countries, including 12 outside Africa, gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, for an international conference “Safeguarding African World Heritage as a Driver of Sustainable Development” co-organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the United…
Thanks to Natural England for these links to a series of briefing notes summarising evidence on links between natural environments and a variety of health outcomes. They were published on Gov.UK last Friday morning. EIN015 – Connection to Nature: evidence briefing EIN016 – Methods, Glossary and Evaluation Resources: evidence briefing EIN017 – Links between…
Thanks to NAAEE CEO Judy Braus for this fascinating link about that most wonderful of birds, the raven. It begins: “Humans’ ability to understand the perception and intent of others allows us to navigate the Eligible canadian pharmacy guide Find suhagra vs viagra To original cialis price Of cialis and lifting weights. world in an…
It was with great sadness that we heard of Rosie Edward’s sudden death last Friday. Rosie was a key environmental educator in the UK both through her work leading the Cambridgeshire Environmental Education Service [CEES] at Stibbington over many years, and her support of the National Association of Field Studies Officers [NAFSO]. Those of us…
Mark Lynas has written an open letter to Greenpeace asking it to end its opposition to biotechnology. It begins: Dear Greenpeace, You will no doubt have seen the letter signed by 100 Nobel laureates asking you to end your opposition to genetically modified organisms. I hope you realise what this means: a great number of the most…
This blog post was was co-authored by Sarah Mitchell and Malcolm Nicholson, and first appeared in July’s Circulate Newsletter. It begins: “The traditional economy is based on a linear business model where increased consumption leads to higher growth, more production and subsequently to bigger profits. The circular economy incorporates a completely different business model where energy and material flows…
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Ria Dunkley, a social researcher at Cardiff’s Sustainable Places Research Institute, has a recent post on the SciSCREEN blog discussing David Bond’s recent film Wild Thing. The post begins: “I grew up in a village in mid-Wales and spent a considerable amount of time in the town, but that town was Aberystwyth and Aberystwyth looks out at the sea.…
This article was first published in NAEE‘s Spring 2016 journal Environmental Education (Vol 111), as our ‘President’s Column’. The views are Bill Scott’s own, not NAEE’s. Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants? The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other…
The Learn from Nature blog is always worth a second look as it sets out to contribute news and ideas to the debate around finding ways of humans living lightly on the Earth. It’s writer (NAEE’s Henricus Peters) says: Humans, as regions and nations, even as individuals, share the Earth with many billions of peoples…