Each week subscribers to The Times can receive an environment-themed email newsletter. This one is about preparations for COP 28 in Dubai. It’s reproduced in full here with acknowledgement. As we reach the halfway point between Cop27 and Cop28, the prospects for success at the summit in Dubai this December are looking increasingly uncertain. Yesterday…
#SchoolsForNature – During the week of 12th June RSPB, WWF, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Wildfowl & Wetland Trust and Woodland Trust will be leading a national celebration for schools that have taken practical action for nature this academic year. They will send them a Save our Wild Isles certificate signed by Sir David Attenborough and encourage them…
Callum Woolman It’s a bright sunny day, quite warm actually; it’s playtime without coats. All of which is taken away from us the following week with temperature ten degrees cooler. I am asked why is this happening most days and it allows me to introduce the topic of climate which then leads to the conversation…
Reviewed by Henricus Peters “Just another book on the environment?” I hear you say… No, actually, Protect Our Planet is different as it comes from a young conservationist: an 11-year old eco-warrior from Durban in South Africa, who has already done more beach cleanups and tree-planting than most adults. The book, aimed at children but…
This is a link to an April blog by Neil Kitching which explores the greenhouse effect. Neil blogs at carbonchoices.uk and can be contacted at carbonchoices@gmail.com His content is freely available for sharing with an acknowledgement of the source. This is how Neil begins: “My thoughts on why things might be even worse if there was no…
The DoE goes Green – Young people doing their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award can work with Young Climate Warriors’ on the ‘Skills Section’ of the award. Details here. . Change the Curriculum – Teach the Future has launched 5 new subjects in its Curriculum for a Changing Climate project. If you didn’t see the launch webinar last week, you can catch up on the…
Ministry of Eco Education – Coming up in May are two regional climate teacher gathering events. One is in Bristol on 30th May; the other in London on 31st May. These will bring teachers together to co-create climate education resources. More detail here. . World-wide – GEEP showcases environmental education efforts in countries around the world. It has a collection of country profiles from around…
This is the title of an OECD blog by Cassie Hague and Mathias Bouckaert, analyst and former analyst within the OECD’s Directorate for Education and Skills. Their key points are: Young people are at the forefront of calling for and taking action on climate crisis. Education systems can support young people to enable them to…
Hot & Bothered – Sustainable theatre company Pigfoot is releasing a short documentary ‘Bothered’. Drawn from conversations with young people, young activists and teachers across the United Kingdom, this 14 minute documentary examines the current state of climate education in the UK and shares how people can be part of change. It features the Teach the Future network, and those…
Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates with the people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bearing the heaviest costs of these losses and of inequitable conservation efforts. In response to this emergency, biodiversity credits – or ‘biocredits’ – are emerging as a new kind of financial asset: a measurable, traceable and tradeable unit of biodiversity, that…
Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin who, before his retirement, led the Environmental Studies programme at the University of Northern Colorado, where he launched a degree in Sustainability Studies. His academic interests are environmental worldviews and understanding barriers to sustainability. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by…
Leadership for Sustainability: saving the planet one school at a time David Dixon, Crown House Publishing, 2022 250pp, paperback, £18.99, ISBN 978-1-78135-401-8 September 2022 saw the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which drew attention to the devastating impact that the indiscriminate use of pesticides such as DDT was having on the natural world. It…