The Parks Alliance – the national voice of UK parks – has announced that Nesta, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund have published a report ‘Learning to Rethink Parks’ which presents the lessons from Rethinking Parks, an 18 month programme designed to find and test ways for Britain’s national parks to source new sustainable…
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To celebrate becoming an Eco Schools partner, Jaga has launched a competition to find creative writers to write a short story about an Eco Warrior. Some questions pupils might like to think about are: what would their Eco Warrior do to help the environment, what type of house would they live in, would they have any…
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The winners of the 2015/16 Alu D&T Challenge, a design competition for 11 to 14 year olds, were announced at a prize-giving event at the Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on 24 February. The national schools’ competition, linked to the Key Stage 3 Design and Technology curriculum, helps teach pupils learn about the properties and sustainability…
Here’s a recent video from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation about how a more circular economy could help easy both resource and energy crises. This is a link to related TED-Ed resources for schools, and here is the Foundation’s YouTube site where all its videos can be viewed.
Earth Education UK is holding a collaborative weekend at Ringsfield Hall, Suffolk, 15-17th April, in order to share ways of engaging children and young people in learning about, and connecting to, the natural world. Their blog is here. There will be discussions of how Earth Education programmes can add value within other environmental education approaches such as Forest Schools,…
Every Friday, from 1030 to 1200, starting on April 8th, there will be an introduction to walking as a form of meditation and relaxation in Highbury Park, Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham. This will at times be a slow moving activity to help increase personal and environmental awareness. There are two benefits to Hair up.…
Biochar was featured in a recent BBC Countryfile programme in the context of the fight against ash dieback, and there is some evidence that is may have some properties which help trees fight back. Here is a link to some key ideas about it. One of these is that it may be able to combat…
The Public Health England blog had had quite a lot of environment-related posts recently. A recent post says: “Global food production is responsible for enormous emissions of climate damaging gases as well as taking up critical water supplies and physical space. Estimates suggest that food and drink production and distribution contributes 20% of UK carbon emissions every year.”…