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Category Archives: Informal learning

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Project Wild Thing

October 17, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

I wrote previously about the dislocation of children from nature and the risks this brings to their wider development, confidence and self esteem (see Wild child full of grace….). The […]

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Education, Engagement, Health & well-being, Informal learning

A global outlook on urbanisation

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Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) have created an interactive version of the report City Biodiversity Outlook 1 which was launched at the CBD COP in Hyderabad in 2012. With a video […]

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Biodiversity policy, Ecosystem services, Green intrastructure, Health & well-being, Informal learning, Science
Wake of the Endeavour

Wake of the Endeavour – NEW Revised Edition

August 10, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

NEW REVISED EDITION Thanks for all the support from my readers. Following the positive feedback I have released a revised edition of Wake of the Endeavour. Join me in an […]

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Engagement, Informal learning, Science

Citizens, mobile coms and bio-diverse engagement coming of age

June 12, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

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. […]

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Citizen science, Education, Engagement, Informal learning, Science, Uncategorized
Rice

Soil biodiversity creates a rice production revolution

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Hardly known in the west a revolution is taking place across the rice-producing world – and the secret lies in enabling soil biodiversity to thrive. The method, known as the System of Rice […]

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Agro-eco, Business and biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Health & well-being, Informal learning, News, Science
Olympic rings London 2012

Not just gold, silver and bronze but green and blue – London 2012

February 6, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

While enjoying the gold fever I took a private view behind the scenes in the Athlete’s Village at the London 2012 Olympics. The London Olympic Park was the first to be […]

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Engagement, Green intrastructure, Health & well-being, Informal learning
Biodiversity Lab in the Nature Research Cente ©NCMNS

Natural History Museums in a changing world (Part 2)

February 4, 2013by Dr Robert Bloomfield Leave a comment

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 […]

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Biodiversity policy, Education, Engagement, Informal learning, Museums
Tanya Kovats with here work TREE, celebrating the work of Charles Darwin

TREE – a lesson from Charles Darwin

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This article is based on a paper in the journal Evolution:Education and Outreach. It explores an art work celebrating the work of Charles Darwin and its relevance to the future of biodiversity. […]

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Arts, Informal learning, Museums

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