{"id":4221,"date":"2013-07-03T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T08:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T08:16:24","slug":"the-uk-department-for-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/07\/03\/the-uk-department-for-environmental-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK Department for Environmental Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an eagle-eyed colleague in China (who spends too much time web-surfing), I got to hear of this last week. \u00a0It seems to exist only on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheUkDepartmentForEnvironmentalEducation\">Facebook<\/a> as far as I can see. \u00a0It says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The UK Department for Environmental Education Is based in the National Forest area ,Which Covers the Towns of Burton On Trent ,Swadlincote ,and Ashby and East Staffordshire ,South Derbyshire and Northwest Leicestershire in the UK<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has a mission of sorts ...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental conservation<\/li>\n<li>Outdoors<\/li>\n<li>Environmental consultant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... and describes itself like this ...<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Organisation was formed to promote Environmental Education in towns and cities in the UK .<\/p>\n<p>To Promote Nature and Wildlife awareness and activities in Schools ,Community groups and amongst the General public<\/p>\n<p>Conducting nature walks and talks ,Wildlife projects ,events and activities for both young and old .<\/p>\n<p>Links to other local\/national environmental organisations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great pics though, and, one month in, there is growing activity. \u00a0More later, especially, perhaps, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/curtis.wright.750\">Curtis Wright<\/a> ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an eagle-eyed colleague in China (who spends too much time web-surfing), I got to hear of this last week. \u00a0It seems to exist only on Facebook as far as I can see. \u00a0It says: The UK Department for...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}