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.…
This was the headline in the recent Sunday Times and the sub-head was: Schools are responding to surveys showing that children want to learn more about climate change — and how to stop it. This is how it began: Last year was the warmest since global records began, at 1.18C above the 20th-century average of…
Key messages, resources and events in February The National Education Nature Park empowers young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future, through creating a network of green spaces in schools, nurseries and colleges across the country. Young people lead the way in taking action to boost biodiversity on their…
The latest edition of The Conversation’s Imagine newsletter is a feature on animal migration by Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor. This is how it begins: “Throughout Earth’s long history, myriad beings have taken flight when conditions became too harsh – as seeds or spores, or on feet, paws, wings and fins. The same is happening…
Dr Ian Humphreys is the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. He recently wrote a post for the Slugger O’Toole blog on the idea of a Deposit Return Scheme. This is how it begins: “An ambitious new initiative has come into force in the Republic of Ireland on February 1st that…
Neil Kitching’s latest blog is about his experience of going ‘all electric’ in 2023 – heat pump, solar pv, battery, electric car and smart meter. As Neil’s regular readers will suspect, this is a thorough and honest evaluation of 12 months of what is an (almost) all-electric experience. There are a lot of positives reported…
BERA is the British Educational Research Association. Cait Talbot-Landers, Edge Hill University and Bethan Garrett, Lancaster University have written a post for a special issue of the BERA blog: Teachers are doing it for themselves: Developing Beach School approaches to support an effective climate change curriculum. This is how it begins. “Zac Goldsmith’s controversial resignation letter in 2023 was…
The University of Bath’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment [ I-SEE] runs fortnightly webinars in term times. The list for 2024 up to the end of October is listed below. Registration if via Eventbright and all meetings run from 1630 to 1730. There is no charge. 2024 Webinars 6 February: Professor Sir Brian…
We occasionally feature the writings of Ronald Rovers, a Dutch commenter on sustainability. A recent post focused on whether, in a spirit of fairness, EU countries should grow grapes, soybeans, or solar panels. It’s a question for us as well. You can read it here. It begins: “I’m sitting on a terrace on the borders of the Moselle, tasting some local wine. And…
Steve Hurley writes the Explaining Science blog, and we have featured his work over the years. He has been writing recently about COP 28 and carbon dioxide. His post began: “Like many of you, in December last year I followed with interest the news reports from COP28. As it concluded, there was much written in the media about whether…