This is Teach the Future’s end of year update. With only a few days left of 2023, we wanted to get in touch with a quick update on our work over the past few months, rounding off an amazing 2023 and prepping for 2024 to be our most impactful yet. We rely on volunteers and…
Click here to read Quinn Runkle’s blog from COP28. Quinn is Director of Education at Students Organising for Sustainability. This is how it begins: Over the weekend, the SOS-UK team all arrived home from Dubai, having concluded our programme of engagements with the first-ever Children, Youth, Education & Skills Day. We now watch with trepidation…
How can Wales decarbonise faster? This is a question that is being answered by an independent group that was commissioned by the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru in 2022. The group is made up of academics, business people, third sector and public sector employees and is looking at pathways to Net Zero Wales by 2035, fifteen…
This is a press release from Tide~ Global Learning. Tide~ global learning is a network of teachers and educators. The Elephant Times is our magazine. At the time of COP27, we began a series of online conversations about the educational implications of climate change. This engaged teachers, academics, and education leaders, culminating in two events in…
Today’s post is by Kate Greer who is a researcher whose work focuses on environmental education, its policy, and related issues of justice. Kate’s environmental education career has included roles in government and non-government organisations in Australia and the Southeast Asia and Pacific region. She currently works in the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education. “Everything, everywhere,…
This post updates an earlier one from July 2022 which focused on the teaching of climate change in schools, building on what we [NAEE] had already published. This update bring a focus on net zero into play. Additions are [ in square brackets ]; there have also been slight edits to the original text. In…
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…
Mock COP student staff are about to head to COP28 and will be running and participating in several events focusing on climate education. Some youth delegates from the Mock COP26 Summit and our Mock Education Ministers Summit will also be attending, sharing the Youth Statement on Quality Climate Education and the Mock COP26 treaty. Watch out for: 3 December…
The 2023 Fall edition of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine is now published. The content are below. As usual, there are two free articles. You can take out a personal subscription and see all the content and more. Details here. Features Is Leaf Litter Just “Yard Waste”? by Timothy Stewart, Janette Thompson, Kristina Tank, Makayla Buck, Anna Drahos,…
Today’s post is by David Dixon, NAEE Trustee and author of Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time (Crown House Publishing, 2022). As usual with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by the Association. On Sunday I attended the Remembrance Day service in my local town of Hexham in…