Upcoming Gaia Education 'Training of Trainers' will catalyse change on local and global levels.
… November 2018 Comment Thought Leaders Gaia Education Training Facilitation Pedagogy … Development Goals Findhorn Ecovillage gaia_education_tot_findhorn_1.jpg Upcoming Gaia Education 'Training of Trainers' will catalyse …
Bridge International Academies faces a string of allegations over schools in Kenya, Liberia and Uganda. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… 2018 News Aid International Development Education Africa bridge-international-web.jpg … to respect the rule of law, including minimum education standards, over several years Poor … Bridge’s positive impact Negative impacts on education quality, equity and social …
The decline of honey bees in the UK has been well documented. Is it a demonstration of climate change and, if so, what can be done? QUENTIN SCOTT, director at renewable energy investment company Low Carbon, discusses how it has partnered with Plan Bee to educate communities and support biodiversity
… might be - but rather by continual effort and education. And this is where partnerships are … of crop pollination. The answer is, again, education and the establishment and … of the hives. Linked to the issue of public education is ensuring there is a clear …
Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.
… Children need sensitive climate change education Sue Hampton | 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism … their health, access to food and water, education – even their survival.” As an …
A number of ethical trekking groups in northern Vietnam are empowering local tribes to help end human trafficking, plastic pollution and severe poverty. ROBYN WILSON investigates
… want to eradicate these problems by providing education and employment through a range of … levels of poverty coupled with low levels of education have left the ethnic minority … belonged to regional tribes. Part of Ethos’ educational programmes include basic advice …
Many of us have forgotten how it feels to be truly alone, with jobs, families and now the endless stream of digital information all vying for our attention. But taking time out with just nature for company can provide a myriad of physical, emotional and mental benefits, write BRAD DANIEL, ANDREW BOBILYA and KEN KALISCH
… leadership . We study and teach outdoor education and related fields at several … 2nd Nature TREC, LLC , a training, research, education and consulting firm. We became … in the outdoors because many wilderness education programs have embraced the …
The Institute of Economic Affairs 'Plan A+' report - launched by David Davis and Jacob Rees-Mogg - has been taken down after Charity Commission probe.
… the world. The IEA is registered as an educational charity. It has been under … balanced and neutral as required of an educational charity under charity law. We also … the IEA and many think tanks like it.” As an educational charity, the IEA is able to accept …
Solidarity, the Polish trade union, denied the UN conclusions on the dangers of global warmingIn a joint statement with Chicago based trade union bashing right wing Heartland Institute.
Solidarity rejects climate science consensus Chloe Farand | 11th December 2018 News Solidarity Heartland Institute Katowice Cop 24 Fakenomics x Solidarity, the Polish trade union, denied the UN …
The BBC needs to better educate and inform its audience about the severities of climate change. Children's author SUE HAMPTON sets out five ways in which it can clean up its act
BBC 'political bias is unmissable, risible, almost the stuff of satire – and that’s dangerous' Sue Hampton | 6th September 2018 Comment BBC Climate Change Sir David Attenborough Chris Packham Brian …
Men generally want speed, acceleration, style. Women want there to be a planet when their children grow up. That's pretty much the findings of a University of Sussex study into who will buy electric vehicles and why, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… diverse range of factors ranging from gender, education, occupation, age and family size. … 30 and 45 years of age with higher levels of education, working in the not-for-profit … integration, differ by gender, education, occupation, age and household size …
From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM crops, SATISH KUMAR explains why our relationship with food is so important and what he thinks makes food really wholesome.
… up together, because you cannot provide good education on a bad diet. It is no good … learning to eat together is as important in education as learning reading and writing. … helped establish Schumacher College for adult education, and we applied the same principle …
Capitalism casts nature as a resource which is to be exploited, squeezed and discarded. This is in part because of a linear, reductive understanding of the world. But there is an alternative. Dialectical, systems thinking views nature and society through the lens of complexity, contradiction and phase transitions. DR ROBERT BIEL investigates
… premised on complexity. Dialectics-based education We’ll discuss these specific … today? One way might be a dialectics-based education, which on the above reasoning, … transition A big issue here would be to make education relevant to people’s lives. Since …
The Institute of Economic Affairs arranged meetings with ministers for US donors. LAWRENCE CARTER and ALICE ROSS report
… suggests the IEA is “masquerading as an educational venture” and potentially breaking … a political campaign. Lobby politicians As an educational charity, the IEA is able to accept … and stick to its charitable object of education. In written guidance the charity …
The National Forest Company has launched a plan to build capacity for outdoor learning in primary schools.
… 2018 Comment Change Makers Outdoor Learning Education The National Forest Company … evidence for the positive impacts both to education and child development is compelling … Minister, David Rutley MP, and the former Education Secretary, the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan …
The founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs argued free markets needed honesty. But his own financial success was based on smuggling - and the IEA was itself conceived with the help of a white lie. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… a the newly formed Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) with Henry Hazlitt, the man … ideas of the free market through a vigorous education programme” and returned to Sussex …
Meet the Bhutanese entrepreneur working on organic food production, heritage and education.
… on organic food production, heritage and education. Kesang Choedon has created an … food movement on food heritage and on food education. Do you also believe that a change … their effort to go organic. Finally it is an educational job. We have to teach food culture …
PATRICK CARR is a lifelong coal mine protester from the Pont Valley. As campaigners are evicted from the site by police he explains in his own words what inspired him to join the movement.
… wildlife outweigh the need for coal. Outdoor education In 2014, we failed to do so. Local … for this place led to a career in outdoor education, latterly fixing bikes and leading …
Competition challenges developers to use existing atmospheric data as input for new solutions.
… for data processing and skilled user support. Educational programme Vincent-Henri Peuch, … Every week, participants can learn from educational videos, interviews with experts in …
The Women's Environmental Network is launching the Environmenstrual campaign - as it turns 30. This new coalition will bring together small companies, organisations and activists who want to ditch plastics and propel safe, sustainable menstrual wear into the mainstream once and for all, writes JULIA MINNEAR
… products in schools under the guise of period education but neglect to let young people know … We must also demand a full and balanced education on menstrual product options in …
The finest triumph of the Institute of Economic Affairs was winning Thatcher to free market economics. Their second, decades later, was undermining her attempts to keep climate action on the world agenda. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… and also protect the charitable status as educational rather than party political. … be. Some are of low intelligence, most of low educational attainment….they are producing … denizens of our borstals, sub-normal educational establishments, prisons, hostels …
What is to be done about reactionary localism? How can we keep fascism out of local politics? We need to foreground democracy and interdependence over local autonomy. The latest on our series on radical municipalism from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
… has genuinely destructive potential. Public education is another important terrain of … public schools has resulted in deeply unequal educational outcomes for non-white and poor … districts around the United States have taken educational inequality a step further, with …
Air pollution awareness drive must match the scale of heart, cancer and anti-smoking campaigns.
Air pollution needs huge health campaign Brendan Montague | 12th November 2018 News Air Pollution Clean Air Day Public Health 14092892463_e2b10a72ec_o.jpg Air pollution awareness drive must match the …
Gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice.
… are an extension of care - such as health and education - and that are low paid, precarious … and societal institutions (including education, family, religion and the …
Climate science denial campaign group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has apparently been left with a hole in its finances after a major donor did not renew its funding, writes MAT HOPE
… distress and sickness, the advancement of education, the protection of health and for … distress and sickness, the advancement of education, the protection of health and for …