The Worldwatch Institute has, today, published Earth Ed: rethinking education on a changing planet. There are 25 chapters with the first and last ones (both by Erik Assadourian, senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute and director of State of the World 2017) available as no-cost downloads. The whole thing will cost you $20 or so, plus shipping. The last chapter is…
This is a new book from palgrave macmillan, and this is what the publishers have to say about it: This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads…
If you want to really understand the climate, and how it is changing, to what extent do you have to understand weather? I thought about this question, and similar ones such as: how much do you have to understand about the weather, and anyway what’s the difference, as I read this new book edited by…
Routledge has announce the publication of: Environmental Education, a major works collection in the Critical Concepts in the Environment series. Its editors are Alan Reid and NAEE President, Justin Dillon. Routledge says: “Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing subject and its multidisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature, ‘Environmental Education’…
This is a beautiful book (I could not put it down), as well as being an important work about a very important subject. Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that humans rely on. Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants; their economic contributions are measured in the…
Why do birds have regional accents? Can horses learn mathematics? What do animals without eyes see? How do salmon return to their spawning grounds? How does the Syrian desert hamster know where its burrow is, after hours of foraging in the pitch black desert night? Ethology – the study of animal…
The NHBS Backlist Bargain sale runs until the March 2017. You can, it says: “save up to 60% on nearly 2,000 field guides, monographs, scientific textbooks and more, covering a broad range of topics in ornithology, entomology, mammalian biology, zoology, evolution, ecology, and botany.” NHBS started life as the Natural History Book Service in London…
John Muir is regarded as the ‘father of America’s national parks’ and is a towering figure in the history of that country’s involvement with ecology, wilderness and all things natural. Born into a harsh disciplinarian home in Dunbar, Scotland (not the US as often thought), as a young boy he would often escape the grit of…
Anna Carlile’s book accomplishes an impressive merging of style and substance; at first glance stunning and evocative photography draws the reader in yet suggests that this is nothing more than a walk in the woods in coffee-table reading form. However, on full immersion into the (admittedly slightly hard-on-the-eye) text and projects Carlile has brought together,…
‘The Children’s Garden’ provides a useful resource for any teacher keen to maximise the potential of a school garden for the purposes of enjoyment and creativity. The handbook is organised into sections based on the seasons. In Spring, one of the most fun and creative ideas is the construction of a ‘wall of sound and…