Museo de Ciencias Ambientales – a new sustainable museum concept
A new sort of public engagement institute is emerging in Guadalajara, Mexico under the working title of the Museo de Ciencias Ambientales. The new center is aimed to engage the […]
Category Archives: Education
Whats happening related to formal learning?
Project Wild Thing
Since the reports emerged last year on the growing dislocation of children from nature and the risks this brings to their wider development, confidence and self esteem (see Wild child […]
Citizens, mobile coms and bio-diverse engagement coming of age
Somewhat more than a decade ago in 2000 I sat with my webdesign team, two education colleagues and a research scientist hatching a pioneering web application – Walking with woodlice. […]
Climate of concern… curriculum changes get icy reception
@seed_edu @educationgovuk @peopleandplanet As the charity SEEd (Sustainable and Environmental Education) met in London for its policy forum on 28 March it was in the context of increasing concern over […]
World water day – Hot water – launched with Stanley Johnson and Bob Bloomfield
Cool It Schools launched Hot Water a video competition for young people today at an event at the London Wetland Centre. Bob Bloomfield and Stanley Johnson (Mayor of London Boris […]
Wild child full of grace, savior of the human race
Let your kids go wild. Better environmental and sustainable practice will need future generations of people who are aware of the natural would around them. However, while environmental and sustainability issues […]
Natural History Museums in a changing world (Part 2)
Natural History Museums in a changing world Natural History Museums are hybrid institutions; they study and profess to be authorities on the natural world, they are also popular, much loved […]
