The Children & Nature Network has officially launched its latest the Vitamin N Challenge, a campaign that asks people to find more ways to bring nature into their everyday lives, and inspire others to do the same. For those who already get a regular dose of Vitamin N, here’s an opportunity to think bigger: community gardens,…
It’s very easy, with rules and regulation, for school children to spend much of their class time… indoors. This book is full of ideas to get kids to experience and enjoy being outside… and help adults stuck for what to do! Tried-and-true activities cover: gardening (the author is a horticulturalist); things to do at dawn…
Ria Dunkley, a social researcher at Cardiff’s Sustainable Places Research Institute, has a recent post on the SciSCREEN blog discussing David Bond’s recent film Wild Thing. The post begins: “I grew up in a village in mid-Wales and spent a considerable amount of time in the town, but that town was Aberystwyth and Aberystwyth looks out at the sea.…
All children in the Netherlands were encouraged to play outside on June 10th for the ninth annual “Play Outside Day”, which was begun by the Jantje Beton organization and children’s channel Nickelodeon. The Children & Nature Network reported: To encourage kids to play outside, activities are organized around the country by parents, community groups, schools and the kids themselves.…
Ecotricity is running a Young Green Briton Chat event at the forthcoming WOMAD, where youngsters aged 11-16 generic-cialis4health.com will talk on the three areas that make up 80% of our emissions in Britain – Energy, Transport and Food – as well as on the topic of ‘Making room for Nature’. Each of the four winning…
This article was first published in NAEE‘s Spring 2016 journal Environmental Education (Vol 111), as our ‘President’s Column’. The views are Bill Scott’s own, not NAEE’s. Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature’s migrants? The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other…
This link takes you to the website of the UK charity, Songbird Survival whose name very aptly says what it’s setting out to do. In particular, it funds research into the the causes of decline in order to help promote solutions to restore songbird numbers. Details of their research are here. There’s a news and views…
Do you drink a lot of fruit or vegetable juice? Or maybe you make your own. If you do the latter, you’ll know all about the residues that are generated – we imagine you compost them. If you don’t know about residues, then this article in Modern Farmer may help you get the picture. It reminds us…
The Wild Network now has over 27 thousand members, ranging from individual parents and teachers, to nature clubs and outdoor leaders. Its mission is to help kids to roam free, play wild and lead nature-rich lives. You can read the full story and find out how to get involved and share your ideas on their website.
Project Wild Thing, the film by David Bond, speaks to widely held (and commonly accepted) societal fears that children’s and young people’s opportunities to roam freely and independently in ‘the outdoors’ have curtailed considerably in the late 20th and 21st centuries. David Bond is a filmmaker and a father. Things have really changed since he…
The Learn from Nature blog is always worth a second look as it sets out to contribute news and ideas to the debate around finding ways of humans living lightly on the Earth. It’s writer (NAEE’s Henricus Peters) says: Humans, as regions and nations, even as individuals, share the Earth with many billions of peoples…
Tonight sees the launch of the Festival of Nature in Bath. The festival has been sailing down the River Avon between Bristol and Bath since June 10th, and this event brings together supporters and partners to welcome the festival and preview the public programme, which will take place in Royal Victoria Park.