Do you live in West Yorkshire or Greater Manchester? If so, you can apply for two £10,000 grants to help green your neighbourhood. The grants could be used for any ‘urban forestry’ initiative such as planting street trees or creating an urban orchard. The grant is part of the TD Green Streets initiative – a partnership between Leeds’ based TD Direct Investing and…
Did you read recently that the Oxford University Press has been steadily removing (over the last few years) nature-related words from its Junior Dictionary? Examples include: acorn blackberry buttercup fern heather minnow moss sycamore willow An OUP spokesperson said the dictionaries are “designed to reflect language as it is used,…
The Soil Association is concerned that glyphosate and other chemicals may be finding their way into the bread we eat because of the spraying that is routinely done on wheat crops. It is running a #notinourbread campaign to draw attention to the potential problems. You can see what it says, and is doing, here. Here’s the…
Climate Action reports a Yale University global survey of trees. This says that there are just over three trillion trees on Earth which is eight times more than previous estimates. Yale combined ground survey data with satellite imagery giving the new total that is equivalent to about 420 trees for every person. About 43% (1.39 trillion trees), are…
Here’s the latest from Energy Live. There are stories on heat metering, energy from coffee waste, energy taxes, and what Ed Davy is up to now.
Do you think that the urgency of the threats faced by the natural world demands new ways of working because these problems are too big and too complex for any single organisation to tackle alone? Do you think that we must be open to collaboration, innovation and doing things differently – to partnerships of possibility? Do…
In partnership with Cornwall-based EGS Energy, the Eden Project has planning permission for a 3-4MW geothermal power plant on the Eden Project site, taking energy from the heat in underground granite rocks. This event invites you to hear more about our geothermal plans and how this specific project could benefit Eden’s local community, and more generally,…
Today in National Poetry Day in the UK, and here is NAEE’s offering by Thomas Hardy … Proud Songsters The thrushes sing as the sun is going, And the finches whistle in ones and pairs, And as it gets dark loud nightingales In bushes Pipe, as they can when April wears, As if…
A Year Around the Great Oak is a beautifully written and illustrated picture book telling the story of two children, Benjamin and Anna, who visit their forester uncle through the year. The story tracks the cycle through the seasons of a three hundred year old oak tree and the children’s relationship with it through the year, as…
The Guardian is reporting that the Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the fourth lowest extent on record. Its report begins: Ice coverage in the Arctic this year shrunk to its fourth lowest extent on record, US scientists have announced. The National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Colorado said that the ice reached a low…
Manchester Metropolitan University says it’s leading the world when it comes to teaching students to become “carbon literate”. Students studying Masters degrees in events, hospitality, food and tourism management in the Department of Food and Tourism Management have become the first in the world to gain a Carbon Literacy Certificate as part of their university course. The teaching programme was…
The UK aluminium industry is inviting secondary school pupils to take up the Alu D&T Challenge. Schools participating in this competition linked to the Design & Technology curriculum will get free teaching resources which encourage pupils to explore sustainable design and have their ideas judged by a panel of industry experts. The Alu D&T Challenge sets out…