Over the next few days, our Webwatch section is focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals: those crucial international targets that were agreed a few months ago. Today’s focus is a series of maps produced by UNESCO. Read on … UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, has launched a collection of interactive maps presenting indicators…
The Beyond GDP initiative is about developing indicators that are as clear and appealing as GDP, but more inclusive of environmental and social aspects of progress. This EU website provides a range of updates on recent developments and ongoing work across a number of countries.
The Guardian has an article on the long history of fakery and deception in wildlife film making. As most now know, even the BBC is not immune from this dishonesty. Will you be watching the fake-free Planet Earth II on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday?
Tide~’s new resource “Global learning – lenses on the world‘ is now available online. It addresses questions about poverty and wealth; hunger and food; and sustainable development. It has five free downloadable sections, supported by over 80 additional downloads, and is available in both English and Spanish. The resource shares work from Tide~’s three year project ‘Young people…
The IES 2016 Burntwood Lecture is to be given by Baroness Parminter. Her title is: Separation anxiety: The challenges for the environment from Brexit The organisers say that this lecture series provides an opportunity for an eminent speaker to talk on a current, critical and often controversial environmental theme to an invited audience from the professions, universities and government. In this…
WWF produced its Living Planet Index last week. Here’s the report summary. All environmental educators will find something in here of interest and importance. Moreover, there is much that will enliven teaching of all kinds.
The Guardian reports a new YouGov survey commissioned by Groundwork which reveals the stark fact that 30% of 16- to 24-year-olds from lower income families say they never visit a local park – more than double the number from higher income families. The importance of green spaces to young people’s social and physical development is well understood.…
As part of Groundwork’s Active Neighbourhoods project in Birmingham, local residents wanted to make their area in Alum Rock more useful and attractive in the form of a garden. The existing site was a simple green triangle between the junctions of several roads. After an initial site visit, Groundwork’s Landscape Designer produced a design proposal. The scheme…
The Royal Society is working in partnership with the British Council and the Commonwealth Secretariat to run a programme of activities in schools across the Commonwealth on scientific topics, linked to the Commonwealth Science Conference hosted by Singapore in June 2017. Each one is also linked to at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals. These resources…
Has hope become the most endangered species in conservation? Adding: As wildlife continues to decline around the world, conservation has become a bleak calling. Can a new Optimism Summit help reframe the mission to save life on Earth? Jeremy Hance begins his article with this: “Want to hear a sad story? You could read this article of…
Thanks to LEEF for alerting us to the Wildlife Gardening Forum International Conference on Wednesday 23rd November at the Natural History Museum in London. This is a ground-breaking (literally and metaphorically speaking) conference and will involve speakers from Germany, Belgium, Holland, Ireland and the UK, addressing the theme of “What European Wildlife and Nature Gardeners can learn…
Yes! Magazine has a feature by Jill Suttie on How to raise an environmentalist. It says that: “Encouraging children to form an emotional attachment to nature may be key to protecting our planet’s future”, and we know that this is a popular sentiment. But this is a more thoughtful piece than you often find about…