Click here for an update on the Youth Climate Summit that’s being held from November 9 to 13. Co-ordinated by the charity Global Action Plan and a team of dedicated teachers, the Youth Climate Summit will be a week-long virtual festival of themed discussions and activities. GAP is inviting schools, teachers and organisations all over…
Is it Silent Spring, perhaps? Or Walden? The Natural History of Selbourne, maybe, or A Sand County Almanac? Then there’s Last Child in the Woods, Small is Beautiful or The Web of Life. The Prelude, perchance, The Deserted Village, or The Mores? Or Emile. Is it Bedford 2046, Marx’s Ecology, The Child in the City, or Streetwise? Or Deep Ecology: living as if nature mattered, Ariadne’s Thread, Environmentalism, or After Sustainability? Is it The Skeptical Environmentalist, or Capitalism as if the World Matters. Or Collapse: how societies choose…
Joe Brindle, a member of the Teach the Future leadership team, writes about the organisation’s new tactics, having failed to engage English school education ministers in serious conversations about the changes they are seeking to the student experience of schools. NAEE is a core supporter of Teach the Future and its aim of curriculum reform.…
Teach the Future has a blog and post of the posts are contributed by its young supporters and members. Here are links to a few recent posts: Serena Murdoch writes about the language we use to talk (or not talk) about climate issues. Serena compares this with learning a new language: Voulez-vous parler du changement…
A UK citizens climate assembly on the climate issue and net zero emissions by 2050 has just ended. After meeting for six weekends with climate experts and energy specialists, and discussing the issues, the assembly report emerged a couple of weeks ago. Many of its proposals were largely uncontroversial and many were already national policy. The assembly…
Today’s blog is the first of a series by Jade Fabian who is a family support worker based in Birmingham. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed are Jade’s, and are not necessarily shared by NAEE The world is settling into its new version of ‘normal’; many people are returning to the office, students…
An international team of researchers is conducting a survey about national and international participation in environmental education conferences. Particularly, it is looking to find out what barriers to participation exist for environmental education society members. The survey will take about 15 minutes and your responses are anonymous. It is here and the deadline for doing…
Ann McGuire, Baskerville School, Birmingham This project involved five Birmingham schools: one primary for hearing impaired, two all-age special schools, one secondary autistic specific school and one small group of students from a mainstream secondary boys’ school (44 students in all). We wanted to make Global Learning especially meaningful and practical to our cohort of…
Here’s the latest in a selection of articles recently identified by Natural England in the Nature Connection, Engagement and Pro-environmental Behaviour category The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behavioursM Richardson, HA Passmore, L Barbett, R Lumber. R Thomas, A Hunt – People and NatureThis study is the first of…
WWF has released the latest annual Living Planet Report which estimates that the population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have all fallen by an average of 68% in 50 years. The report is no based on an index measuring global biodiversity, and it tracks data on ~ 20,000 populations of more than 4,300 vertebrates.…
Dr. Philip Ryland & Jim Mitchell write about the power of informal environmental education to create memories. Environmental interpretation is widely accepted as a process of communication which aims to deliver meaningful information in an informal, relaxed way to visitors (Benton, 2009; Brochu, 2003). The type of information provided varies considerably between sites but will…
In March 2019, the Treasury commissioned an independent, global review on the economics of biodiversity. This is led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta – Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. The Review was asked to assess the economic benefits of biodiversity, and the economic costs of biodiversity loss; and identify actions…