News and Updates

Our local great spotted woodpeckers are back visiting the garden after their autumn sabbatical, having successfully raised at least one brood last year.  Seeing a bird hanging off the fat ball cage the other day prompted the usual question: is...

Amid all the euphoria in Glasgow during COPO26, I tried to listen to a few alternative voices.  Why?  Partly because they exist, and partly because of a number of misgivings I have about the social and economic costs of the...

It was a nice Christmas present to get a note from the ASE to say that they'd like to re-print an article I'd written for them.  It'll appear in the new year 2022 edition of ASE International. What took me...

Thanks to the latest NAEE weekly round up for alerting me to what's occurring in Wales.  I was fleetingly  in the Principality recently but failed to spot this. The Curriculum for Wales initiative is in full swing and you can see...

Imagine a conversation somewhere east of the Vistula ... Sergey More good energy news Mr President.  Useful idiots in Scotland have persuaded the First Minister to oppose the development of Cambo – an oil and gas field.  This means we...

This post is written by Dr Paul Vare of the University of Gloucestershire.  Paul was one of those invited by the DfE to be a member of the climate education working group which met on December 9th.  These are his...

I've been reading NAEE's latest blog post from Richard Dunne leader of the Harmony Project.  It's worth a read and contains this passage: "... The climate emergency has come about from a complete lack of understanding of what we need to...

The DfE wants feedback on its draft sustainability and climate change education strategy for education and children’s services systems.  These are my initial thoughts: I ... support the statement that education is critical to fighting climate change, and the acknowledgement that...

The DfE is saying nothing about the chances of the GCSE in natural history getting approval.  The proposal  is "with ministers" I understand.  But what advice are they getting from civil servants do you suppose?  The fact that it wasn't...

I've been reading an article in Unherd from Tom Chivers on the gloom we saw at COP26. Chivers says that the predictions we hear about doom and damnation are based on something called RCP 8.5 which is a worst case scenario...