There’s only a day to go to the CLOtC conference. Here are a few highlights: Penny Hay from 5x5x5=creativity and Bath Spa University will highlight the importance arts and creativity activities outside the classroom. 5x5x5=creativity fosters creative enquiry by empowering children and young people to take the lead in their learning, explore the world around them and…
Morgan Phillips has post on the EEPRO website that looks at a school that has created a garden using the plants from the greats of American literature. It begins: “One of the most exciting and uplifting stories I heard at the NAAEE conference came from a session titled ‘Greening the Literature Classroom’. Jennifer McQuillan is an…
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 GA has published a case study page with a summary of the recent New Zealand earthquake, with personal accounts, links to further information, video clips and enquiry questions. Here are the links … Initial earthquake damage and response New Zealand earthquake latest: Two confirmed dead after 7.8 magnitude tremors on South Island – includes gallery and video clip, Independent. New Zealand earthquake: Two dead following powerful…
Here’s Johan Rockström (Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre) writing at the start of WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016. A RESILIENT EARTH FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS It is rare that a scientific idea fundamentally alters our worldview. Copernicus’s realization that the Earth orbits the sun is one such example. Darwin’s theory of evolution is another.…
Matt Roper, CEO of GreenBuying, writes about his company’s work with schools. There is a growing awareness within the education sector of the need and potential to ’buy green’ and there muse or viagra are plenty of examples of committed individuals taking major steps to become more sustainable in their arrangements generic viagra with suppliers.…
There are positive changes taking place at LEEF in London. LEEF is a network for London’s urban Environmental and Sustainability Educators. Its members are people who work, http://cialisgeneric-toped.com/ freelance and volunteer in does generic viagra work environmental education roles from frontline teaching to backroom policy and everything in-between. Their website shows the 2015/16 plavix with…
A Reel-y Authentic Food Truck is one of two articles published by Green Teacher in its Summer 2016 edition that is freely available to read. We are highlighting it here to draw your attention both to the article, and to Green Teacher itself, as this is a journal that NAEE finds to be consistently informative and interesting. The article begins…
Rewilding Britain is a charity set up by people with a passion for nature. It believes that rewilding provides hope for the future for people and nature, and that, through rewinding, we can start to reverse centuries of ecological damage. We can, for example, re-establish natural processes, reconnect with nature and regain wonder for the natural…
The Species Recovery Trust is dedicated to stopping some of the UK’s rarest species from going extinct, and re-connecting people with the wildlife found around them. Its work focusses on doing the following … Shortlisting species which are currently demonstrating catastrophic levels of decline in the UK, those which already exist at such low numbers that their…
Today’s blog is by Bill Scott, the Chair of the Trustee Board for the new NAEE. In what follows, Bill explains the background to the changes that have taken place and some of the detail of the revised arrangements. He stresses that, amid all the change, there’s also a lot of continuity. Over the 50+…
Here’s Karen Hollweg commenting on a new climate change documentary, Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic, that features Leonardo DiCaprio who’s had wide-ranging access to leaders around the world. Through his travels, DiCaprio searches for hope in a rising tide of catastrophic news. Hollweg says: “I highly recommend this documentary for anyone high school…