Thanks to NAAEE for alerting us to the Underwriters Laboratories Education Award programme which has recognized five organizations for empowering learners and communities by linking the environment to STEM concepts, or E-STEM. This year’s winners are: NY Sun Works Greenhouse Project, New York, $100,000, a New York City-wide initiative using hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about…
Here’s what the Dirters are up to next week: Saturday 1st October Blue Patch Pops-Up with the UK’s First Sustainable Department Store – Southwark, London (10am – 11am) Spoon carving – Petersfield, Hampshire (10am – 3pm) Apple & Chilli Festival – Cornwall (11am – 2pm) Sunday 2nd October Apple Day Brighton – Brighton, East…
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The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) has been working closely with LOtC Quality Badge holders and partners to improve and expand the range of discounts on LOtC visits, activities and resources which we offer members of CLOtC. Here are the latest offers. These include: 4th Dimension Ltd Concept Training Craggan Outdoors Creepy Valley Adventure Centre Field Studies…
Jellicoe 2016: From Capability Brown to the Incredible Edible Network – new ways of engaging communities with landscape is the title of a lecture which honours Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900 – 1996) who was an architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, lecturer and author. In 1929 he was a founding member of the Landscape Institute and…
The RHS is running a project to engage London Secondary Schools this term and they need some additional mentors from the horticultural world to guide the schools. The challenge for the schools is to design a garden for their school or community in ten weeks starting on the 30th September and finishing on the 9th December. The RHS is aiming to…
The printed report from Tide~ Global Learning of its EU-funded project, Young People on the Global Stage is now available. This work was carried out with partners in Spain, Kenya and the Gambia. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report: Global Learning – Lenses on the world, please contact Elizabeth Matka [ elizabeth@tidec.org ] by Wednesday,…
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Communicate is the UK’s environmental communications conference, which is returning to Bristol in 2016. Those attending will all be asked to “walk a mile in someone else’ shoes and challenge ourselves to look at the world from another perspective.” It’s taking take place at Bristol Zoo Gardens on November 2nd and 3rd. The organisers say: “We each see…
LEEF has a busy programme of events already confirmed for autumn. Fuller details will appear on www.leef.org.uk/events as they are confirmed but in the meantime, here is a sneak preview. Tales of the Thames Path training evening, Wednesday 19 October, 5-7.30pm, Lila Huset Professional Centre, 191 Talgarth Rd, London W6 8BJ The Urban Studies…