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A one-year, part time Action Research programme. Through practical examples, theory and creative processes, participants will have the opportunity to explore ideas in a dynamic learning environment. The part time structure enables participants to experiment with, reflect on, and document their learning in between sessions, and to integrate the work into their professional and personal practice. There is support and feedback from the certificate tutors and peers during the intervals.

Embercombe is a charity and social enterprise established \nto champion a way of living that celebrates the opportunities inherent in this \nchallenging time and that inspires people to energetically contribute towards \nthe emergence of a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually \nfulfilling human presence on earth.\n\nIt is our view that humanity now stands at a cross-roads - \na defining time in which we will make choices that will greatly influence our \ncollective future, for better or worse. We have become so numerous, so \nindustrious, so ambitious, and so technologically powerful, that we have the \ncapacity to orchestrate the destruction of our species, habitat, and future. We \nalso possess the imagination, the vision, and the intellect to learn from \nexperience, meet our challenges, and build a positive, sustainable future. A \nradical shift in awareness, values, and behaviour is required to meet this \ncritical transition.

Learning Score is an alternative take on lesson planning. A multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line. Use it for planning, for reflection, or as a upgrade to powerpoint since you can embed any resources you want to use into the visual plan itself. Whole lessons can be saved with all their resources and annotations for later use and sharing.

Learning Score is an alternative take on lesson planning. A multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line. Use it for planning, for reflection, or as a upgrade to powerpoint since you can embed any resources you want to use into the visual plan itself. Whole lessons can be saved with all their resources and annotations for later use and sharing.

Proposals for new Framework for National Curriculum. An important and impressive document. Trying to make sense of current situation and suggest a way forward. "Can't please all the people all the time."

"In MACOS, the concept was "the chain of life" or a "lifeline": the entire history of a living thing. The course started with a simple lifespan in the form of the Pacific Coast salmon." Link to "Through these Eyes" Canadian Film Board film. Controversial at the time. Holistic

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.

"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

"Could methane-digesting bacteria and an Arctic cap of fresh water prevent a climate catastrophe?" Some good news and some not so good.

"Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. ... But after a time I slowly changed my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew." One woman's personal transition tale. Useful links

"Give them a laptop and a group of pupils will teach themselves. The academic who inspired Slumdog Millionaire believes all pupils should be given time in groups with a computer to teach themselves"

"The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly."

10 X 10 photos with 100 words from the last hours RSS news feeds. Can give data for hour, day, month or year. A new way of looking at the present and the past.

"China or the U.S.: which will be the last nation standing? by Richard Heinberg Silly me. Here I had thought that world leaders would want to keep their nations from collapsing."

"How do you save the planet? Chop down a tree and put it in a microwave. That's not a joke. It's the proposition of at least two dozen companies developing "biochar" technology that they say will suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and help curb global warming."