Friday was International Poetry Day. To celebrate it here’s John Clare’s On a Lane in Spring. As usual with Clare, the punctuation is minimalist. A Little Lane, the brook runs close besideAnd spangles in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly byAnd hedges leafing with the green spring tideFrom out their greenery the old birds…
Snap – The latest DfE climate education snapshot is here. There’s information on [i] a Sustainability In Education Conference, [ii] the Sustainability at Middlesex Learning Trust, [iii] a month of climate actions, [iv] Education for Sustainability 101, [v] Wilding schools, and more. . Country Profiles – The UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report and its Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication…
Youth Pressure – With the general election fast approaching, SOS UK is ramping up its activities in order to create a wave of youth pressure that it hopes can’t be ignored. Its purpose is to ensure the next government delivers on mandatory, integrated, solutions-centred climate education. There will be youth political workshops, in-person regional events, and a grading of political…
Today’s post is by Dr Ian Humphreys, the Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and an NAEE Fellow. As ever with our blogs, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. It was an eventful start to 2024 for us at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful as we launched a new…
The Globe is the news update from the Global Dimension website, a free online library of global teaching resources that is produced by Reboot the Future. Reboot’s output for March focuses on respect and dignity. It says, find great conversation starters and classroom resources below to help you enrich your teaching this month and foster connection and compassion…
SOS UK – Join Students Organising for Sustainability-UK on a farm visit between April and July and help it with critical research on the climate and nature crises. You’ll get free online training, accredited digital badge, and expenses covered. Details here. . Nature Park News – Over 1900 schools, nurseries and colleges have now joined the Nature Park, and over 800 have…
The American Institute of Physics’s (Neils Bohr Library) has a focus on how the phenomenon of global warming has been researched and discovered. This includes milestones in a timeline. This is how it begins: 1800-1870 Level of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in the atmosphere, as later measured in ancient ice, is about 290 ppm Mean global…
Today’s post is by regular contributor, Richard Jurin. 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. As ever, with our blogs, the views expressed are not necessarily shared by NAEE.…
Behaviour Change for Net Zero – The University of Bath’s next I-SEE webinar is on Tuesday March 5th – 1630 to 1730. Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh will argue that most measures required to reach climate change targets require behaviour change and social transformation. To achieve this, she says, measures will be needed to change people’s behaviour at home, work and elsewhere. Findings from…
This was the headline in the recent Sunday Times and the sub-head was: Schools are responding to surveys showing that children want to learn more about climate change — and how to stop it. This is how it began: Last year was the warmest since global records began, at 1.18C above the 20th-century average of…
Key messages, resources and events in February The National Education Nature Park empowers young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future, through creating a network of green spaces in schools, nurseries and colleges across the country. Young people lead the way in taking action to boost biodiversity on their…
NCD UK 2024 – National Children’s Day provides an opportunity for everyone to share the work that they are doing to protect the wellbeing of children and families. This year, NCDUK2024 will take place on Sunday May 12th. Discussions are already taking place on social media #NCDUK2024 @NCDUK2024 . DERC Webinar – There’s an online event on Wednesday February 28th (1600) when Matthew Hayes…