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"A look at the coalition government's policy on the National Curriculum, and the decision to abandon Labour's primary curriculum reforms, following the Rose Review."

"After appropriate management changes land can remove CO2 from the air and sequester it in soil or above-ground biomass. Carbon can also be sequestered by forming biomass into human artefacts and preserving it, preventing its carbon from being returned to the atmosphere."

"Taking the widely quoted figure that there could be an estimated 150 million people forced from their homes and land by climate change by 2050, this event brings together ideas from Heads of State, philosophers, explorers, scientists, lawyers, actors and experts in their field to discuss the potential cultural, emotional and physical impacts of forced migration, who should be responsible and what the potential options are for dealing with the impending human rights crisis."

Biochar Systems Science: Climate Change Mitigation with Multiple Sustainability Outcomes?

one of the things that has emerged as a key driver for change is the value of inspiring examples of ordinary people taking a lead Building Community, Transition Movement and Social Enterprise

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects.From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material.

A project funded by the Higher Education Academy's Centre for Bioscience to develop a series of "How to Make Your Teaching More Sustainable" sheets. Intended as guidelines, they will provide information on how to make some aspects of teaching in the biosciences more sustainable and demonstrate how these changes in practice can then be raised as discussion points among students within the lecture, tutorial or lab group.

A project funded by the Higher Education Academy's Centre for Bioscience to develop a series of "How to Make Your Teaching More Sustainable" sheets. Intended as guidelines, they will provide information on how to make some aspects of teaching in the biosciences more sustainable and demonstrate how these changes in practice can then be raised as discussion points among students within the lecture, tutorial or lab group.

We Are What We Do is a global movement that believes it's not just politicians, institutions and big businesses that can change the world - ordinary people can do it too.

We Are What We Do is a global movement that believes it's not just politicians, institutions and big businesses that can change the world - ordinary people can do it too.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy experts with over 20 years experience of working with public and private sectors to change people's attitudes and behaviour regarding their use of energy. Resources for teachers and schools.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy experts with over 20 years experience of working with public and private sectors to change people's attitudes and behaviour regarding their use of energy. Resources for teachers and schools.

"Climate Week is a supercharged national occasion that offers an annual renewal of our ambition and confidence to combat climate change. It is for everyone wanting to do their bit to protect our planet and create a secure future."

"Effective solutions for living sustainably in the postindustrial age require innovative frameworks and implementation strategies. Rather than tackling these global-scale problems one by one, as we are attempting for climate change, we need a far more holistic and integrated approach. The planetary boundaries framework provides such an approach. "

"Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions"

Celebrating innovation and leadership. The Climate Week Awards celebrate the UK's most innovative, effective, and ambitious organisations, communities and individuals and their outstanding efforts to combat climate change.

The Pedagogy of Climate Change free download of new book from GEES

Putting a price on a tree changes people's attitudes and if developers think in financial terms, then a community asset must be valued in the same currency, he says.

"Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world."

Using business, entrepreneurs and consumers to move to a better world. Considers island cultures and their energy problems.

"Where are you on the scale?"

Action research lies at the very centre of human life. . Action research is a family of approaches through which we can work to develop democratic dialogue in the service of mutual understanding and more informed action. It is an approach to living based on experience and engagement, on love and respect for the integrity of oneself and others. It depends on our willingness to rise above presupposition, to look, and to look again, to try out different behaviours, to risk security in the search for understanding and appropriate forms of action. All this in the service of opening possibilities for creative living.A

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. "How might we organize differently if we understood how Life organizes?" "problems that are impossible to solve with one paradigm may be easily solved with a different one."