The University of Cambridge’s David Attenborough Building was formally opened in early April after undergoing a £58-million revamp to transform it into a global centre of conservation excellence. A dramatic ‘living wall’ covered in plants forms the centrepiece of the new centre, which will house over 500 biologists, conservationists and students, and provide a base for research, conferences,…
Here are some forthcoming Project Dirt activities: Saturday 30th April Vegan Permaculture Design Course, Puglia, Italy, with Graham Burnett– Outside UK… (9am – 5pm) Introduction to Permaculture – Totnes, Devon (9:30am – 5:30pm) Discover Nature at the Urb Farm – Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (10am – 1pm) Staffordshire Day Celebrations – Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (10:30am – 4:30am) Pigpen Radio Crowdfunder…
Last week, the Parks Alliance (TPA) published ‘The National Playground: growing the next generation’ on the importance of parks to family life. The report says that the current squeeze on budgets is putting parks and green spaces at risk. Data highlighted in the report show that parents with children under 10, are most concerned about the…
Circle of Life Rediscovery and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Learning Disability/ Family Intensive Support Service – held a Celebration Day on 31st March to mark the huge success of their three year project. Children and young people with learning disabilities often have fewer opportunities in life and…
Think Global says “Join us on 27 April for our 2nd seminar on the Sustainable Development Goals“. It adds: “Young people need global skills and competencies if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This seminar is the second joint Think Global / British Council events exploring education and the SDGs. It will…
You can find out details of FoE’s bee count here. It runs from 19 May to 30 June 2016 and there is an App to help you record data.
The CPRE has produced a useful new guide for identifying and classifying hedgerows. This is a celebration of our hedgerows. CPRE says: “We wanted to share our passion for them and encourage more people to care about them too. And to entice you further, we’ve included a handy hedgerow plant identifier for when you’re next…
Julia Parker-Dickerson, Director of Education Programmes at KidsGardening.org explores school gardening in New York. Housed together in a four-story brown brick structure surrounded by brownstones and apartment buildings in Brooklyn, New York are two schools: Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (PS 705) and the Explore Exceed Charter School (Exceed). These combined schools in the Crown…
But only in the USA. NEEF’s 12th annual National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is taking place from April 17-23. It’s the USA’s largest celebration of EE, and it sets out to inspire environmental learning among school students, and beyond, with events and projects taking place across the country in classrooms, after-school clubs, parks, aquariums, museums, and…
The Young People’s Trust for the Environment (YPTE) has been busy for the last few months creating lesson plans and presentations to assist teachers in delivering lessons on environmental topics that meet with the requirements of the National Curriculum. YPTE offers free talks and presentations in schools, but as a small organisation with a limited…
Click here to see the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom’s range of events from now to the autumn.
Ken Webster’s latest thoughts on the circular economy have been published in Circulate. They begin: The circular economy describes a feedback-rich economy in all its embedded glories: energy, materials and information. It is one in which stocks matter, since they are the source and destination of complex flows, stock maintenance and even enhancement. Regeneration is…