LEEF is a network for London’s most innovative and passionate urban Environmental Educators. You can catch up with their latest activities here. Contact Anna Portch [aportch@wildlondon.org.uk ] if you want to keep in touch with what they do, including information about their four new Fellows: Beth Barbara, Lucy Gijsen, Melissa Rose, and Melissa Glackin.
This Wednesday, June 10th, the University of Gloucestershire is hosting the 2015 Learning for Sustainable Futures event which is focusing on student experience. It features new projects in Accountancy, Fine Art, Business, Fashion, Sports Placements and Libraries, as well as an interactive panel discussion about how to engage students in sustainability through social enterprise, placements and…
A free (massive) online course (MOOC) is being launched by UWE Bristol offering community groups and individuals the chance to learn what makes a ‘green city’. This new initiative is the first of its type to be launched linked to a European Green Capital City. As part of Big Green Week, Simon Bates, the course developer…
Monday’s BBC Panorama programma will address the issue of GM technology and food. The theme is: A new generation of GM foods is winning over governments and former critics of the technology, and scientists say the crops could help feed people in the developing world. So are those who oppose GM doing more harm than good? And…
Will you be at the Growing Up Global and Green conference on September 18th? If so, do come to the NAEE stand and say hello. We’ll tell you about the benefits of membership, and be very happy to sign you up while you’re there.
National Sustainable School’s Conference, Bristol, 2nd July The University of Bristol, in partnership with the Sustainable Schools Alliance and SEEd, will host this year’s National Sustainable Schools Conference which will also be available online. Cost: £75. To book click here. Building Capacities of Educators for a Just and Sustainable World Conference, Liverpool, 9th July This TEESNet event will address a priority action area…
Soils have a vital role, especially as they host a quarter of our planet’s species. As the website states: “The multiple roles of soils often go unnoticed. Soils don’t have a voice, and few people speak out for them. They are our silent ally in food production.”
Led by Professor David Lambert, former Geographical Association Chief Executive, the key objective of the geo capabilities project is to create teacher training materials to develop teachers as curriculum leaders through a ‘capabilities’ approach’. The project embraces diversity in culture and language and in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards.
This is not so much a place as a concept. Did you know, for example: that with a uniquely biodiverse landscape – with nature reserves, parks and gardens – the Greater London National Park (still only an idea) is recognised as one of the world’s most important urban habitats. Over 1,300 Sites of Importance for Nature…
Run by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK public body that supports the natural and environmental sciences, this site tells how environmental scientists really work and explains their research – and its importance – in plain English. Planet Earth is a free magazine aimed at non-specialists and members of the public with an…