Clyde Climate Forest takes root across West Dunbartonshire
This spring, more than 60 volunteers dug in to plant over 600 trees in Whitecrook, Clydebank to create a new native woodland as part of the wider Clyde Climate Forest initiative. Local schools, community groups and corporate volunteers worked together with staff from environmental charity Green Action Trust, who are [...]
Climate Engagement Fund
Youthlink Scotland have shared how organisations across Scotland, including community, cultural and education groups, will be able to bid for support from a fund aimed at engaging people in tackling the climate emergency. Closing date: 7th May Apply now
Make climate change a compulsory subject, says panel
This TES article (11th April 2024) describes how the Scottish Parliament’s Climate Change People’s Panel is calling for every pupil to have ‘a basic understanding of climate change’.
Tiny Forest news hot off the press
The latest Tiny Forest Monitoring Report from Earthwatch is out now. Read about the environmental and social benefits that a Tiny Forest can bring to urban communities between the first and third growing season. Key findings include the fact that rainwater is absorbed up to 65% faster inside three-year-old forests [...]
New film spotlights the benefits of healthy peatlands
A new Peatland ACTION film has just been released that highlights the landscape-scale benefits of peatland restoration across Ben Wyvis and the River Peffrey. This is one of a suite of Peatland ACTION case studies that focus on landowners, managers, and contractors explaining in their own words why they think peatland [...]
Dirt Is Good Project
The Dirt Is Good Project is an award-winning, free programme that empowers students aged 7-14 to unite in compassion and take collective action on the environmental and social causes they care about, whilst contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This includes an online library of free resources, including [...]
The Climate Wellbeing Project – limited free places available for secondary schools!
Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education offer this innovative climate education programme fusing storytelling, circus, music, theatre and environmental science for secondary schools. The Climate Wellbeing Project addresses climate change in an informative, meaningful and positive way, with a focus on mental health and wellbeing, and inspiring collective climate action. The [...]
Climate Anxiety – Whose Perspective?
Stride, the Global Citizenship magazine for schools, has shared the new resource Tackling Climate Anxiety in the Classroom. This activity, available to download, supports young people to reflect on climate anxiety from different perspectives.
