Education for sustainability UK
This article focuses on action communities may wish to take to promote all aspects of education for sustainability and sustainable communities thriving within planetary boundaries. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.
WL Meets: Cegin y Bobl – The People’s Kitchen, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 06, 2025) - Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities, theconversation.com (Oct 28, 2024)
- How to supercharge climate action? Get schools involved, positive.news (Jun 05, 2024)
Events
Mar 24 - Apr 4, 2025 (Mon - Fri) — Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel, cycling, walking and scooting challenge for schools from Sustrans, bigwalkandwheel.org.uk
Networks
- UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC), non-profit youth organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, who are all aged 18 to 29. Formed in 2008, the mission of the organisation is to inspire, empower and mobilise a coalition of UK youth organizations and young people to take positive action on climate change. To achieve their aims and objectives, the organisation provides training to young people on public narration whilst coordinating a series of projects, campaigns and events each year, including youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations. The organisation is supported by a coalition of non-governmental organizations. UK Youth Climate Coalition on facebook
- UK Students Climate Network on facebook
Funding
Solar Schools, Project now closed according to website, Sep 2016. Community fund raising scheme for renewable energy projects. Each school has its own webpage where parents, ex-pupils, local businesses, and other supporters can buy squares of a 'virtual' solar roof. Once they have raised the total cost of the solar roof, they can erect it. The idea is that the solar roofs will help the schools reduce their carbon footprint, turn a profit from the renewable energy it sells and provide the children with a platform for learning about clean energy.
Other resources
- Better Planet Education, added 11:00, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Better Planet Education (formerly the Young People's Trust for the Environment) is a British charity, founded in 1982 to encourage young people's understanding of the environment. The charity's main goal is to give young people a real awareness of environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, deforestation, endangered flora and fauna, and sustainable development.
- Education Resources from the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, lotc.org.uk, added 15:16, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
- Top tips on sustainability in schools
- Sustrans information for schools
- Sustainability Exchange, resource for sustainability in UK tertiary education
- Global Dimension, the world in your classroom
- Transition Universities Guide, Jan 2017
- People & Planet University League
Campaigns
- Adult Conversations, campaign for 2021 which will incorporate a set of events with aims including: Put 'community' back into adult education.
Climate emergency
- Let's Go Zero 2030, national campaign demanding government backing for zero carbon schools added 15:09, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
See also: Localism UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Students organising for sustainability UK, added 14:11, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
- Veg School Meals UK, Towards a self-sufficient school for every child, added 10:28, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- Students Organising for Sustainability UK, educational charity created by students and staff at NUS in response to the climate emergency and ecological crisis. added 17:45, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- Eco-Schools England
- Education Otherwise, information for families whose children are being educated outside school
- Field Studies Council, educational charity based in the UK
- Human Scale Education
- Magic Breakfast, charity which provides a healthy breakfast free of charge to 440 schools across the country, making sure over 17,500 children have a nutritious start to their morning in the classroom.[1]
- Open University, distance learning and public research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.
- Sustainable Schools Alliance
- Learning through Landscapes, UK charity which promotes children's outdoor activities through improved use of school playgrounds.
- Think Global, promoting education for a just and sustainable world
References
- ↑ Magic Breakfast press relase, 17th July, 2015