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Advertorial: Biodynamic Agricultural College
Biodynamic Agricultural College – Specialist courses in Biodynamics: Principles and Practices. Now available on line with our new Distance Learning course in January 2012 more...
Advertorial: Ashridge Business School
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Ashridge Business School is a place where tradition meets innovation – in one of the most beautiful locations in England more...
Advertorial: Schumacher College
We are looking for agents of change and leaders of the future, who will use the unique learning experience we can provide at Schumacher College, to make a more sustainable and equitable world more...
Schumacher College
We believe that a more sustainable and equitable world is possible. Join us and the leading international thinkers, activists and practitioners, for pioneering short course, postgraduate and vocational education that delivers personal and global transformation.Tel: 01803 865934
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The Secret Garden nursery: a unique daycare where children spend all day outdoors
Phoebe Doyle
26th July, 2011
When the classroom is the outdoors the possibilities are endless. Phoebe Doyle explores the practicalities, the realities and the huge potentials of the outdoor nursery concept more...
Ecologist guide to courses
Matilda Lee
5th January, 2011
The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go more...
Ecologist guide to courses
Matilda Lee
5th January, 2011
The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go more...
Come get a proper education with the Idler Academy
Tom Hodgkinson
30th July, 2010
Tom launches the Idler Academy to teach us good grammar, sadly lacking practical skills like carpentry and lastly, of course, merriment more...
Jackie Schneider: local authorities must protect children, not catering firms
Laura Sevier
23rd March, 2010
Vocal school food campaigner Jackie Schneider on parent power, the importance of cooking from scratch and why free school meals would be the most cost-effective solution more...
The Gaia Warriors by Nicola Davies
Grace ter Haar
9th February, 2010
An accessible, enjoyable book on climate change for the next generation of eco-warriors. Contributors include James Lovelock more...
Ecologist guide to green skills and education
Eifion Rees
2nd February, 2010
Weaning ourselves off carbon will mean a profound change in every aspect of daily life, every sector of society and every job. For that to happen we need a new mindset and a new set of tools...more...
Ecologist guide to green skills and education
Eifion Rees
2nd February, 2010
Weaning ourselves off carbon will mean a profound change in every aspect of daily life, every sector of society and every job. For that to happen we need a new mindset and a new set of tools... more...
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Schools using art to learn about climate change
Rebecca Heald
27th July, 2009
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative more...
A school built for green education
Ecologist/Positive TV
4th December, 2009
The newly opened Langley science academy in Slough ticks just about every box - airy, light, modern interiors make for good learning environments, and the school building is stuffed full of eco features more...
CASE STUDY: keeping local areas distinctive
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it… more...
Green seniors bid for greater environmental role
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
'Green seniors' are asking to be trained as volunteer environmental advisers for their local areas, and call for 'age-proof' green strategies in a new manifesto more...
How to home educate
Mike Fortune-Wood
15th March, 2009
Letting children learn flexibly and organically creates rounder, more educated human beings, says Mike Fortune-Wood more...
Eco-schools scheme help to 'green' schools
Nick Kettles
13th March, 2009
More and more educational establishments are becoming environmentally friendly, thanks to the Eco-Schools scheme. Is this our road map to sustainability? more...
Robotic children
Nick Kettles
2nd February, 2009
Production line education is creating clones and stifling the imagination of our children. Is it any wonder they are stressed and unhappy? more...
Cassandra: education
John Papworth
21st November, 2008
Our prophet becomes a parish pariah for daring to challenge the orthodoxy of the educational system more...
Cassandra: Youth
John Papworth
1st October, 2006
Did you say ‘youth problem’?It’s really the adult problem.
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Let Our Children Roam Free
Tim Gill
23rd September, 2005
Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getting them into the wild.more...
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement
Holly Wren
1st April, 2003
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports. more...
A better kind of justice
Nandor Tanczos
13th June, 2000
Nandor Tanczos thinks the modern legal system could learn a lot from traditional ideas of justice, such as those of the Maori people more...Members
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