The Royal Society has published a report exploring large scale electricity storage. The Executive Summary begins with a useful clarification of the problem we face: The UK Government has a stated ambition to decarbonise the electricity system by 2035 and is committed to reaching net zero by 2050. As Great Britain’s electricity supply is decarbonised,…
Transform Our World – GAP is recruiting for 24 young people, aged 14-16 to join its Transform Our World team. Full details on what’s involved and how to apply are here. Here’s a Tweet and a LinkedIn post if you’d care to spread the word. . Environmental History – UCL Press has announced the publication of a new open access book: History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental…
The DfE-funded National Education Nature Park and Climate Action Awards aim to empower children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and to nature’s future. These free programmes aim to put nature at the heart of education by providing educators with support and guidance to give every learner in England…
A recent Times Environment feature focused on small space rewilding. This is what it said: “A new study demonstrates the impact on wildlife of nurturing small spaces. Much is written about the benefits of mass rewilding projects, across vast swathes of land. But scientists at the University of Melbourne found that a mere 12 months after an…
The Summer edition of Green Teacher magazine is now published. Its contents are here (with the freely-available articles included) Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Gillian Petrini (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Elementary School Driving Change… The Electric School Bus by Chloe Faught (Free Article)Instructional Materials for Secondary School Outstanding Science Trade Books for Environmental Literacy by William Straits (Free Article)A…
This week’s news round up is deliberately brief as befits the end of Summer. It focuses on DfE, Ofsted, COP28 and EAUC developments. Concrete Things – As if dealing with dodgy concrete weren’t enough for the DfE, after Claire Coutinho went on to higher things, a new education minister has had to be appointed. David…
The Sustainability Team at the University of Gloucestershire recently shared the outputs and resources from their recent QAA funded partnership project: Students Driving Curriculum Quality for Sustainability. The project used student co-creation to develop and test a framework of simple quality principles for assessing the integration of sustainability learning, that can work for any course…
NAEE’s manifesto for young people’s learning and the environment was launched in 2022. Its purpose is to build on existing work in schools and colleges and further stimulate change in thinking and practice. Doing this means that young people can be even better prepared to meet the social and environmental challenges they will face through…
Nature Parks – Here’s the latest information about the National Education Nature Park and Climate Action Awards – and about grant eligibility for Nature Park and Climate Action Awards funding allocations. . KS2 LEGO – The Natural History Museum and LEGO offer a 5-part course for KS2 students through which they explore human impact on the planet using the example of birds;…
Today’s post by regular contributor, Richard Jurin, is a follow up to two recent posts about Faustian bargains we have made. Before his retirement, Richard 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.…
Berkshire Warming – Did you go to the Festival of Education back in July? NAEE Trustee, David Dixon, reflects on his experience of the event. . Nature Park Update – On 12 July staff from the Natural History Museum and the Royal Horticultural Society ran a live online 30-minute broadcast aimed at teachers so they could prepare for how their setting might…
What do you think are the main problems and challenges faced by sustainability and environmental education? You’ll have a view, as do we. We decided to ask Claude AI. Here’s what emerged: Limited funding and resources Environmental education initiatives often lack adequate funding and resources from both government and private sources. This restricts their operations and…