We are grateful to Max McMurdo for these up-cycling tips: Jam jars – these make great display storage Old lampshades – remove fabric to reveal a beautiful wire structure Coat hangers – these can be used to make amazing lampshades as seen on the latest Channel 4 series of ‘Fill your house for free’ Chipped…
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The Environmental News Network reports that storms have killed millions of Monarch butterflies. The article begins … While international efforts are under way to help keep dwindling populations of monarch butterflies from disappearing, scientists are raising concerns about how severe weather and a loss of forest habitat at their wintering grounds in Mexico are affecting them. Every year,…
The Children & Nature Network reports an Australian study (by ABC’s Layla Tucak) which says that gut health, mental wellbeing and immunity are linked to outdoor play. This begins: Playing in nature used to be a part of everyone’s childhood but researchers say it has become an increasingly foreign concept in Western countries with changes to…
Miles Irving’s, ‘The Forager Handbook’, begins with a passionate introduction about a revolution in the food industry and a burgeoning communal return to our ancestral roots. His enthusiasm and knowledge are clear from the start, and the book, without doubt, does offer a wealth of information. However, I fear the title misleads us in its…
This article was first published in NAEE‘s Summer 2015 journal Environmental Education (Vol 109), as our ‘President’s Column’. The views are Bill Scott’s own, not NAEE’s. The Sustainable Schools Framework – and those doorways Much of the work of the Sustainable Schools Alliance [ SSA ] is focused around the Sustainable Schools Framework which was something the Blair government set up. It had 8…
The Development Education Research Centre (DERC) at UCL in London has announced two autumn seminars: Dr Maureen Ellis will talk on The Critical Global Educator on Tuesday 4thOctober 2016 – 1700 to 1830. Dr Ellis is Senior Research Associate at Development Education Research Centre, University College London – Institute of Education; Associate Lecturer at the Open University; and author of The…
There are only a few more days to take the Countryside Classroom Annual Survey. All participants who complete the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 cash prize. Countryside Classroom says that the survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. It has 4 sections: – Using the site…
Cat Gordon, Conservation Officer at the Shark Trust relates Marazion School’s work in a citizen science recording project On the 19th June 2015, Marazion School joined the Shark Trust in search of mermaids’ purses as part of the citizen science recording project, the Great Eggcase Hunt. The school group gathered on the local beach where they…
We’ve copied this from our President’s blog: I was scribbling about global warming and went to the NASA website. As well as some fine pictures – they do have some of the world’s best camera angles – the screen shows some key climate change / global warming stats. They are hard not to keep looking at: carbon…
Kew has a new day course on an introduction to drawing trees, which covers composition, scale, experimentation, and texture. After an outdoor ice-breaker exercise using sketchbooks/paper on board, the morning continues with composition studies using viewfinders. This focuses on how the structure of branches and negative space can bring balance to a composition. The day also includes sessions…
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is asking 16 to 25 year olds to write about how they think climate change will influence their lives and what they think should be done to combat it. This is an opportunity for aspiring scientists or writers to have their voice heard by thousands of readers interested in environmental issues. The winning article will be published in The Ecologist,…