All you need to know to get fresher, healthier and greener food into your child's school - from nurseries to primary and secondary schools
… How to campaign for better school food Laura Sevier | 25th March 2010 … Food And Farming Health Soil Association School Food Matters Jackie Schneider Organix Better Nursery Food Now School Food Trust Jamie Oliver …
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
… March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health School Food Campaign Better Food For Schools Food For Life School Dinners Education jackieimage.jpg Vocal …
Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful pesticides, but schools claim safer alternatives would be 'uneconomic'
… Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools The Ecologist | 14th January 2010 News Food And Farming Schools Pesticides Health pouring chemical.jpg Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful …
Tips for passing on green fingers, and a taste for vegetables, to your sprogs
… Green Living Food And Farming Gardening School Food Soil Association Roots And Shoots … to December on the website . The Growing Schools website has a fantastic search … small groups into the apiary when visiting. School rules What kind of food messages does …
Ask those involved in public food procurement if they would like to see fresh, local ingredients on menus and they will say yes. Then they will list all the reasons why it wouldn't work. Not so, argues Maria Cross - and here's how
… Food And Farming Public Procurement School Food Soil Association procurement.jpg … is that public sector institutions, including schools and hospitals, have been given the … food in public institutions, including schools. The year before, the Italian Ministry …
Teacher Jamie Feilden came up with the idea of bringing at-risk students to his family's Somerset farm for a week in 2004. Six years on and the results are breathtaking...
… morning, he'd normally be getting ready for school. But today, it's into the waiting truck … Jamie Feilden was teaching at a South London school with a high rate of exclusions and … brought two lambs from his family's farm to school. The reaction of the students surprised …
Libby Grundy, Food for Life Director at the Soil Association, talks to the Ecologist about the food challenges facing the planet and what's inspiring her work...
… And Farming Soil Association Blogs childrenschool.jpg Libby Grundy, Food for Life … missed. On a more positive note, the School Food Plan due to be launched any day by … Department for Education, should finally give school food and food education the emphasis it …
Awareness of pesticide-use in public areas used by children is low but the health dangers demand our attention
… Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Tom Levitt | 25th … talking about pesticide use in parks and schools. We want to get health groups and … Contractors using dangerous pesticides in UK schools Survey finds that school children are …
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.
… Organic Food Organic Farming satish.jpg From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM … some other helpers, I established The Small School in Hartland. The very first day, when … and teachers gathered, I asked how this school would be different from any other. The …
'The LSE would become a world leader and show other universities teaching economics is incomplete without teaching ecology.'
… We need a London School of Ecology and Economics Satish Kumar | … ecology.' I was invited by the London School of Economics (LSE) on behalf of the … what I said in my talk. Critical The London School of Economics was a radical and …
Public will not have to be notified when crops, fields or parks are being sprayed with pesticides potentially harmful to their health, despite warnings from the British Medical Association
… in areas used by vulnerable groups, such as school playing fields and parks, will also be … use of pesticides in the locality of homes, schools, children’s playgrounds, hospitals and … NEWS Ban pesticide-use in public parks and school grounds - campaigners Awareness of …
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, …
Children may be more likely to turn to sugary drinks and ice-creams because of a lack of working water fountains in public parks in the UK, says campaign group
… have access to free, safe drinking water in schools and public parks,' she said. The … MAKE A DIFFERENCE How to campaign for better school food All you need to know to get … healthier and greener food into your child's school - from nurseries to primary and …
It's the UK's National Vegetarian Week but what's on the veggie menu at your local bar, pub or bistro? If it's mushroom risotto - again - have a word with the chef because there's no excuse for those second-rate meals that should have been left behind in the 1970s. Susan Clark goes in search of Fine Dining for non-meat eaters
… me, very happily, at the Ashburton Cookery School ( www.ashburtoncookeryschool.co.uk ) in South Devon. I say happily … Spielberg filmed War Horse (b) the cookery school has been established for over a decade, …
Education must nurture young people who are aware of the problems that our world faces and who are armed with ideas on how to tackle them.
… when it comes to shaping our future. Take schools during the industrial revolution, they … of children, so has plastic pollution. Schools up and down the country have engaged … taking on the issue of plastic pollution in schools should not merely be limited to …
Campaigners urge Michael Gove to get tough on 'dark store' delivery depots or risk children’s health and well-being from air pollution.
… plan to open a depot next to a London primary school, recommends that new warehouses must be … at least 400 metres from facilities including schools, hospitals and care homes. Pollution … Initiative and Senior Air Quality Analyst, School of Public Health, Imperial College …
Alice Waters on dining with the Dalai Lama, edible schoolyards and life in Berkeley, USA
… Waters on dining with the Dalai Lama, edible schoolyards and life in Berkeley, USA Can you … Jonathan Kozol’s books on the US public school system, particularly The Shame of the Nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America, have had a profound …
Financial connections between some of the world’s most controversial corporations and leading UK engineering and science organisations uncovered in new research.
… science. Other examples are provided by the school education programmes run by the Royal … external funding it recently received for its school education programmes was from fossil … on four main financial links: funding of school education programmes; investments; …
Are you a ‘premium loyal’, a ‘loyal low spender’, a ‘can’t stay away’… or don’t you care? Tesco does, and uses the data collected from your loyalty card to dictate what you buy, when you buy and how much you buy.
… phone service, and in 2000 it launched Tesco SchoolNet, which is now the largest school internet service in the world. When … do so. Tesco has long seen linking up with schools as a great way to get its name out …
Lesein Mutunkei, 17, from Nairobi, Kenya is the first finalist from the 2021 Children's Climate Prize to be announced.
… Prize to be announced. Football teams at schools and clubs across Nairobi in Kenya will … manager has been tasked with supporting schools and clubs with plots of forest to … soccer, at different levels. Lesein’s own school and soccer club have started several …
Greta Thunberg has called for a world-wide strike on Friday September 20 - for children and adults. Here's how to make this a reality.
… United Airlines, the hospital or the school want to be on television news and … back down. Find a Friend Every one of the school strikes all over the world happened … a small group of organisers inside the school persuaded their friends and classmates …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… was criticised last year for supplying schools with burger vouchers offered to pupils … giant also offers free course packs to schools through ‘education business … The Ecologist asked McDonald’s if its work in schools was comparable to the aggressive …
From Slough to the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden & Wildlife Project in Brighton, Warren Carter is a radical food grower on a mission to transform the lives of troubled youngsters. Jan Goodey meets him
… long term unemployed, refugees, and excluded school kids - can get tips on wholesome food. … from nearby Moulsecoomb Primary, other local schools and the Swan Centre (support for … awards, environment awards...[2008 Best School Grounds in the South East of England]. …
Teach the Teacher: the students leading the charge on climate education.
… 2021 | News Climate Breakdown Education Schools Editor’s Picks … UK wide project where we had hoped to get 5 schools involved, to a flourishing … international campaign with not only 45 schools participating, but spread throughout …