Are you puzzled about what to teach about glyphosate – the world’s widest-used weedkiller? If so, then a piece on the BBC’s Gardeners Question Time [GQT] last week might leave you better informed. It began about 15 minutes into the programme, and provided (for us) a useful summary. However, last Thursday, EU experts failed again to take a decision…
To introduce the new Best Naturally Green (Biophilic) Scheme category, the Making Birmingham Greener & Healthier Awards were launched at the Small Heath EcoPark earlier this month. This new category is open to applications from people or organisations that have made space for nature and introduced schemes to protect wildlife and increase biodiversity; improved access…
A recent SEEd blog had a posting about the difficulties now inherent in the word nature, exploring a paper by Hannah Pitt, Research Associate at Cardiff’s Sustainable Places Research Institute. You can see Pitt’s article in The Conversation, here. We’ll be commenting on this in a day or so.
Although we missed screen-free week – too busy keeping the website up to date and all that – there’s no reason to despair, as part of every week could be screen-free if you try hard enough. That’s in addition to the screen-free time you have when you’re asleep, of course. If you need to, you can…
Yesterday’s post by NAEE President, Bill Scott, in his blog set out the article he wrote for NAEE’s latest journal, Environmental Education Vol 111. The title was: Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants? In this, Bill looks at a new report from the RSPB: The Nature of Climate Change – Europe’s wildlife at…
The Guardian recently had a feature on urban schools and outdoor learning. It began … “Outdoor learning isn’t just the preserve of rural schools. These simple ideas will help you incorporate outdoor learning in a concrete jungle. But what do you do if your school isn’t blessed with acres of green space? From making the most…
Getting Connected to Nature is the theme of the 2016 Nature Connections conference in Derby next month. You’ll find the draft programme here. The core themes of the conference are improving links between research, policy and practice through the latest research and perspectives on [i] the benefits of a connection with nature, [ii] getting connected to nature…
What did you think when you saw those great piles of elephant tusks burning on TV, or read about them in the papers? Did you welcome this as a slap in the face of poachers everywhere and a step in the right direction? Or did you wonder, as David Attenborough did, that it would make…
NAEE and the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) invite you to a reception being held in Bristol on Tuesday May 31st from 1700 to 1900 at the Bristol Science Centre. The reception is to mark the UK launch of the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP), which was established in 2014. It is also being held in conjunction with the…
A new report on Circulate from Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicted that electric cars will be cheaper to own than conventional cars by 2020, and that they will make up about 40% of all vehicle sales by 2040. Currently just 1% of all new cars sold are electric and cost is still a significant barrier. However, this latest analysis predicts…