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NAEE NEWS The Ecological Footprint Project for Schools Help your students to find out the the environmental impact of their lifestyles, by encourage them to complete the personal eco-footprint calculator. Then place all your results on the shape of a footprint and send it in to us. There are student prizes for imaginatively decorated footprints and school prizes for the best overall submissions. Click here for more information about the project, click here to download a printable poster for your school and click here to view a photograph of an example of a school's footprint. To get your footprint calculator and footprint template, please contact Heatha Gregory at info@naee.org.uk. The deadline for this project is the end of December 2009. Invitation to Join Us We are looking for NAEE members to join our Executive Board, particularly those with knowledge and experience in the following areas: * the built environment * secondary education * higher education* Basic expenses covered, including travel expenses for NAEE meetings and events. For details contact: Henricus.peters@virgin.net or info@naee.org.uk. Environmental Education blog Read this blog by NAEE's Henricus Peters - http://environmentaleducationuk.wordpress.com/. NAEE has published a new document - Positive Action This handbook aims to help the school and the local community to understand the environmental reasons behind the need to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, with ideas for reducing their harmful impact on the environment guided by the principles of "care for oneself, care for others, and care for the environment". For more information, and to order this publication, please contact the NAEE office or click here. The Green Corridor NAEE see environmental education as being the 'green corridor' from which the eight doorways for a sustainable school lead. Click here to see a pictorial representation of this concept.
NAEE petition to include Environmental Education in the National Curriculum On 17 May, a group from the NAEE executive took the above petition to 10 Downing Street, along with letters to Gordon Brown from both our chair, Norman Farmer, and 11-year-old Danny Gregory, who obtained over 300 signatures from the teachers and pupils at his school! Click here to read an article from our Autumn 2008 journal about the petition, which includes details of the Government's response. NAEE document - Environmental Education & Every Child Matters Click here to read the full document or go to the Publications page to find out how to order a copy.
Correspondents and Case Studies The Editorial Board of the NAEE journal 'Environmental Education' invites readers and members, particularly those who live in places such as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Eire, and overseas, to send in articles. We are also interested in short pieces, maximum 200-300 words, of what has worked/what hasn’t and why. Editorial assistance provided. Topics of particular interest: marine education, urban and historical settings. Email: Henricus.peters@virgin.net. Companies or groups to sponsor pages or issues of the NAEE journal Please contact info@naee.org.uk if interested. NEWS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS CABE Grants for Schools For the third year, CABE is offering six grants of up to £1,500 to schools in England to offer exemplary learning experiences inspired by the built environment. The grants are available through a competitive application process and fund projects that take place between December 2009 and 31 March 2010. For more information, or to download an application form, click here. Guidelines for Global Climate Change Education from North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] These have been written for the K12 (Kindergarten to 12th Grade) system of education in North American context, but could be adapted for climate change education in UK primary and secondary schools. Click here to read this information. Tipton Litter Watch wins Queen’s Award Congratulations to Tipton Litter Watch, based in the West Midlands, for receiving the Queen's award for voluntary service in 2009. The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service was launched in 2002 and is equivalent in status to an MBE. The organisation won the award for their ‘Think Before You Throw’ environmental education programme which works in partnership with young people, local schools and education centres across Sandwell to teach the importance of sustainability directly to an target audience of 32,000 young people. Click here for more information. The CJS (Countryside Jobs Service) Focus on Urban Greenspace is now online. It carries details of a large number of Training Providers, events and courses, plus 9 pages of articles, information and contacts. Focus can be viewed from http://www.countryside-jobs.com/Focus/Information.htm. RSPB’s Feed The Birds Day This October, the RSPB’s Feed The Birds Day is asking gardeners to dig a little deeper. In addition to filling up bird feeders, you can provide a lifeline for birds by planting flowering plants or bushes to attract insects in spring and summer, and produce berries in the winter. RSPB want to inspire people to get outside, feel great and enjoy birds coming to them – up-close and personal. They are holding over 100 fun-packed family events across the UK to help people get involved over the weekend of 24 and 25 October. For more information, visit www.rspb.org.uk/feedthebirds. 'Mud Between Your Toes' at the Eden Project A programme to encourage children to spend more time outside and combat the increasing alienation from their environment.The current Mud Between Your Toes activities consist of: schools programmes exploring local wildlife places, outdoor activities and survival skills courses run by Eden and the Bishop’s Forum Activity Centre, a major research programme to promote nature based play, and den building activities at Eden. For more information, visit www.edenproject.com/our-work/people/mud-between-your-toes/index.php. OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST Jamie Oliver backs new ‘edible playground’ project Jamie Oliver has announced he will be backing a project by green charity Trees for Cities to encourage school gardening initiatives that will get kids growing and eating their own food. Described as an 'edible playground' project, the scheme will give school children the opportunity to connect the food they eat with where it comes from. “This is a great way for children to learn about plants, especially fruit and vegetables and herbs and how good food grows," said Oliver, also a patron of the charity. Click here for more information. Will houses of the future be made of straw? Researchers at the University of Bath are building a house made of straw and hemp on campus to test how they perform as building materials. Straw and hemp are the ultimate environmentally-friendly building materials – they are totally renewable and because they absorb CO2 as they grow, buildings made from it can have a tiny or even negative carbon footprint. For more information, visit www.bath.ac.uk/features/balehaus/. Soil Association Petition to help save honeybees The Soil Association have an online petition, calling for the Government to ban neonicotinoids, which are pesticides that affect honeybees’ behaviour. Click here for more information, or to sign the petition. Explore how the programme of study for Key Stage 2 topics can be taken outside - DT, Art and Design, Literacy and Music. http://magazines.scholastic.co.uk/content/7091 Some great starting points on how you and your students can make your school buildings more sustainable. http://www.engagingplaces.org.uk/home. DCSF ‘Top Tips to reduce waste in schools’ latest version available
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (UK) Mr.Philip Neal, MBE and Professor M. Skilbeck. Copyright NAEE (UK) 2003
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