Despite the difficulties of train travel, it was a real pleasure to attend a 30th anniversary meeting of LEEF (London Environmental Educators' Forum) on Monday at the London Natural History Museum. \u00a0This was a well-attended, well-organised event with a theme of urban environmental eduction.<\/p>\n
There were three short talks (all good), two panels (I really enjoyed the afternoon session), ten workshops, a fine accordion player at lunchtime (great food), a story, and an artist who drew the themes of the day. \u00a0Quite a mix, and it worked. \u00a0There was also a birthday cake.<\/p>\n
It was good to see NAEE's journal (vol 122) given to everyone who was there, as this had been a collaborative venture with LEEF on the theme of the conference.<\/p>\n
It was one of those properly provocative days when the inputs nudged you into thinking about your own context. \u00a0Not only in the sense of what you do, but where and how you live. \u00a0There were inputs from Manchester and London which invited a comparison of these two great cities from the environment \/ sustainability (and education) perspectives \u2013 and also for me about my rural location \/isolation.<\/p>\n
It reminded me that I live in that other small bit of England that might properly be called 'Not-London'. \u00a0This provides many shades of green on a Winter satellite image, but is not always \"green\" in a biodiversity sense as there is a lot of grass and mono-agri-culture. \u00a0The urban and the rural sometimes seem remarkably similar in that the richness of \u00a0nature depends on hedges, gardens and woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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