School buildings, food, waste - even the curriculum itself should all support a connection to, and appreciation for, the environment. Here are some resources to get you started
… How to green your school The Ecologist | 10th February 2010 … Change Society How To Make A Difference Schools Eco Schools Soil Association Food For Life …
Thousands of children face fines from schools for striking for climate action - but protest is a human right.
… 15th February 2019 News Climate Change Strike Schools Human Rights Change Makers … Thousands of children face fines from schools for striking for climate action - but … with fines for their children striking from school over climate change inaction today have …
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative
… Schools using art to learn about climate … | 27th July 2009 Activism Climate Change Schools Education Art Global Online Community Children COP15 Copenhagen coolitschoolsvillage.jpg Can climate art help save …
Concerned citizens and future leaders, or an excuse to skip school? Katie Hodgetts spoke to young people at Friday's School Strike 4 Climate to find out.
… 4 lessons from the school strikes Katie Hodgetts | 19th February 2019 News Youth Strikes School Strikes Youth Activism Climate Change … and future leaders, or an excuse to skip school? Katie Hodgetts spoke to young people …
The Food for Life 'Catering Mark' is bringing fresh, healthy and local food into schools, hospitals and canteens, writes Peter Melchett - while driving big increases in the volume of organic food we eat, and growing the market for organic farmers and local food producers.
… bringing fresh, healthy and local food into schools, hospitals and canteens, writes Peter … that this processed meat food, widespread in school meals, contained one third turkey meat … for food served in workplaces, hospitals, schools, care homes and restaurants across the …
School strikers call on the Royal Shakespeare Company to stop taking sponsorship from BP.
… School strikers target oil behemoth BP Craig … Change Makers Royal Shakespeare Company Bp School Strikes Climate Change Oil Industry rylance.jpg School strikers call on the Royal Shakespeare …
Young people are preparing for a mass walkout of classes tomorrow, to demand swift action from governments to safeguard their futures.
… School climate strikes expected in 92 … Japan, young people are preparing to go on a school strike for the climate. The walkout … to avoid this, but we do have the means.” The school strikes for climate were initially …
We’re learning about the climate crisis and reality by taking our education to the streets.
… microphone. Freddy didn’t say these words at school. For while he might have learnt about … of the curriculum. Education Children in schools are voiceless. We swear allegiance to … to the shadows of ‘extracurricular’. But in schools what is really extinct is the voice of …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… nature and growing healthy food on a farm, a school garden or an allotment then in the long … with children "by accident" when setting up School Farm at Dartington Hall in the 1980's. … on the 8-acre site. Every day the local pre-school group would wend their way after lunch …
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.
… 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism … – even their survival.” As an author in school, I’ve noticed touching displays about … of children working to earn the title Eco School – usually by recycling and reducing …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports
… to thank for that. 'When I came home from school and told them about it, it was the … lunch table at Watsonville's Renaissance High School on a bright Tuesday morning, Carolina … things you would expect to hear from high school seniors—homework deadlines, graduation, …
An accessible, enjoyable book on climate change for the next generation of eco-warriors. Contributors include James Lovelock
… Change Gaia Children Eco Education Green Schools Book Review Gaia Warriors … with scientific data HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Schools using art to learn about climate … save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious …
More than 120 climate protests taking place across UK with tens of thousands of students attending.
… Diver | 24th May 2019 News Climate Change School Strikes Greta Thunberg 21032511-1.jpg … attending - despite exams taking place in schools around the country. London, Brighton, … this year, with students "striking" from school to take part. Extinction Rebellion, …
A new climate education bill has been called for matters relating to climate change and sustainability to be integrated throughout the curriculum in primary and secondary schools and included in vocational training courses.
… the curriculum in primary and secondary schools and included in vocational training … the curriculum in primary and secondary schools and included in vocational training … in collaboration with Teach the Future - a school-pupil-led group that campaigns for …
The Soil Association doesn't need to 'get back to its roots', writes Helen Browning - because it never left them! It remains firmly committed to its founders' original organic mission for health, environment and animal welfare. And that means reaching out to a broader public, ensuring that organic principles are ever more widely understood and applied.
… farmers, and with many other people in schools, hospitals and society more widely. We … eat better food, including organic, in schools and hospitals for instance. We work with schools across the UK transforming food …
Young activists launch Teach the Teacher - a global campaign to tackle inadequate climate education.
… inadequate climate education. Secondary school children in the UK and around the world … education is still barely covered in the school curriculum. The lack of information and … a lesson which has been tabled into the school week. Classes will focus on issues …
The United Kingdom Independence Party will ban the teaching of climate change in schools, if it wins the 2015 elections, says UKIP education spokesman Derek Clark MEP.
… will ban the teaching of climate change in schools, if it wins the 2015 elections, says … to ban the teaching of climate change in schools, if elected in May next year. The … documentary An Inconvenient Truth from schools. But this week UKIP Education …
A partnership between an Oxford-based social enterprise and the local Council provides a blueprint for financing community energy projects, writes Wendy Twist. And with £2.3 million in the bank, things are really starting to move ...
… to install 63.5kW of solar PV on two local schools. "We're pleased to be one of the Low Carbon Hub's first solar schools" , says Joan Mortars, headteacher at … local businesses and 20 primary and secondary schools across the County. This work is …
The team discovers that, even in the midst of marine beauty, the ever rising tides exact a terrible price
… Atlantic Rising: when the sea swallowed a school Tim Bromfield | 19th October 2009 … Climate Change Sea Level Rise Africa drownedschool.jpg The team discovers that, even in … divided their village, Iwik, in two. The school and four houses were lost and every …
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
… Climate Change Civil Rights New Orleans school desegregation crisis What is to be done … Generally speaking, local funding for public schools has resulted in deeply unequal … (which is why many states have taken over school funding from local property taxes, to …
The youth movement leading the call for climate justice has emerged as one of the most powerful social and political forces in recent memory.
… and powerful. One moment we see primary school children walking across a London bridge … their communities managed to persuade whole schools to allow young people to leave their … and some received harsh treatment from their schools. Despite these threats, many have said …
In the first post of a new blog, Lynn Morris outlines how and why she and two team-mates are about to trace the contour of 2100's Atlantic Ocean...
… we are connecting English speaking secondary schools in low-lying communities around the … a unique environmental network and launching school projects that will enable them to work together. We have already visited 11 schools in Scotland, England and Wales and the …
The Soil Association's Catering Mark scheme promises 'fresh food you can trust'. This sounds great, writes Lynda Brown. But what does it really deliver? The truth, she finds, is much less than the promise might suggest, considerably more complicated, and threatens to erode the public's trust in the Soil Association's organic brand and values.
… hundreds of thousands of people in nurseries, schools, workplaces, hospitals and care homes … programme. Whereas the latter aims to improve school meals, and school children's understanding about where …