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I looked carefully at the pictures of the climate marchers last week (and XR this week), particularly at their placards and the messages they contain.  I'm always on the lookout for my grandchildren on the school strike days and think...

In 1987, as part of its International Environmental Education Programme, UNESCO-UNEP published: Strategies for the Training of Teachers in Environmental Education [Vol 25 of the programme], a summary of whose recommendations was subsequently made available in 'Connect XV(1) pp.1-3, 'Environmentally Educated Teachers – the...

There is no sign of an occupation of the streets of Semington this week, and it really does look as if Extinction Rebellion will be in London and elsewhere rather than here.  Just as well, really, as it would be...

The changing climate of the planet and the remarkable growth in human numbers and riches both stem from the combustion of billions of tonnes of fossil fuel to produce industrial power, electricity, transport, heating and, more recently, computation. Three-quarters of...

I've been browsing back numbers of The New Internationalist and an article on "What if...we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025?" caught my eye. In this, NI co-editor Hazel Healy sketches out "a radical scenario of carbon cold-turkey".  It is...

This is a new campaign by SOS-UK, UKSCN and XR-Educators to pressure government for curriculum change and a range of other supportive actions.  In outline, this is what it will be asking for: – a Government commissioned review / enquiry /...

Here is a full transcript of Greta Thunberg's speech to the UN.  It's on Treehugger. "This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come...

The DfE is clear on the climate protests; children should be in school learning stuff.  Speaking on Radio 4’s Today, the ubiquitous reshuffle survivor Nick Gibb MP said that although the government shared young people’s concern about climate change, ......

I've seen it reported that over 4 million young and not so young people were on the streets last Friday in 163 countries.  Who can doubt it.  The UK reporting I have seen inevitably focused on London, but this was...

What should individuals, communities, schools and universities do about climate change? is the title of a seminar today at the Grantham Institute.  As I'm having another London-free week, I'm not there. Here's the description: In July 2019, the UK set a...