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Skills for a changing world Fuels the debate Wide ranging chapters

Skills for a changing world On-line chapters from "The Handbook fo Sustainability"

A new small organisation grappling with us grappling with climate change. Worth a look. Heather Luna did great work for sustainability in UK HE.

"The Met Office holds the nation's weather and climate records. You can find summaries, climate figures and much more for the UK here..."

Useful overview of windspeeds for wind tue=rbine potential.

An important new book.

""a shaking of the traditional pieces of the global geo-political puzzle and their landing in a new and unfamiliar configuration." "

"You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in comparison to those who have power?"

"Now there is no denying that the right trees, growing in the right place, are a truly wondrous thing, with myriad benefits for local people and wildlife, and for the global climate."

"Days of world consumption: A warning label for oil and gas discoveries\nby Kurt Cobb "\n"We should leave fossil fuels before they leave us."

Hidden away here is the brochure for the Green Gown Awards 2010

The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture. Led by the Soil Association, the Food for Life Partnership brings together the practical expertise of the Focus on Food Campaign, Garden Organic and the Health Education Trust. We want to transform school and community food culture across England, by harnessing the ideas and initiative of young people and community leaders. We aim to reach out through schools to give communities access to seasonal, local and organic food, and to the skills they need to cook and grow fresh food for themselves. We'd like this generation to explore how their food choices impact on their health and that of the planet, and to rediscover the pleasure of taking time to enjoy real food.

Six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them. David Orr article

An interactive resource featuring stunning colour photos to help you teach about water and its significance. Includes classroom activities, case studies, quizzes and whiteboard activities for exploring the importance of water, water shortages, and ideas for positive action. In addition, there are photo case studies about water from Senegal, Cambodia, Uganda, East Timor, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Switzerland.

"I wanted to focus on the need for a radical shift in education more generally. Reforming education is rightly seen as one of the biggest challenges of our times. In my view, reform is not enough: the real challenge is to transform education from a 19th century industrial model into a 21st century process based on different principles." TED talk

"zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society."

summary of zerocarbonbritain report 2010 for Climate Science

University of Gloucester EfS DRAFT Framework Dec 2009 Includes pedagogical approaches Daniella Tilbury & Alex Ryan

"By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses. EJF campaigns internationally on the issues our grassroots partners work locally to solve including cotton production, pirate fishing, shrimp farming, pesticides, wildlife and climate refugees. "

"If you are looking for easy ways to stop wasting energy and money then you have come to the right place. The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation that provides free and impartial advice on how to stop wasting energy. " Look at links at bottom of page.