Environmental education

• It's School Camp All Right - but Not As We Know It ; Simon Parker Went Along to the Launch of Camp Wild, a Centre Dedicated to Environmental Education, but with the Emphasis On Fun [Edition 2]

It is now taken as an unchallengeable truth that we must do more to care for the planet, seek more sustainable methods of living and be fundamentally greener than previous generations. But while the mantra of recycling, reducing and re-using is now an accepted part of all our daily lives, such activities remain a worthy duty rather than a pleasure.

• Western Morning News, The
• June 22, 2010

• Education Is Key to Our Environmental Legacy

EDUCATION is the key to creating a better environmental legacy, a leading energy company has found. British Gas asked thousands of UK children what needed to be done to change behaviour and attitudes surrounding climate change and found that better education was the priority. Research compiled for the Generation Green schools programme found that 68 per cent of Birmingham children thought more classroom time should be devoted to green issues and 32 per cent wished existing green lessons were more advanced.

• Birmingham Mail
• January 19, 2010

• Ou Environmental Work Wins International Recognition for Multimedia Elements ; Education

An environmental course from the Open University has recently been recognised by the prestigious Europe-wide MEDEA competition. The course, 'Environment: journeys through a changing world', was rewarded for the multimedia activities - across DVDs, internet, text and other resources - that take the students on a learning journey from home to the Arctic, Nile, Amazon, China and beyond, covering a wide range of environmental topics in an innovative and engaging way.

• Western Mail
• January 26, 2011

• John Smyth a Founding Father of Environmental Education

JOHN Smyth spent his childhood exploring the countryside around him on the southern outskirts of Edinburgh, studying the local flora and fauna. His interest in natural history was enhanced by summer holiday experiences on the west coast, where he would later return to carry out research into fish farming. Some 40 years later he repaid a debt to the formative influence of Loch Sween by initiating an agreement between the Forestry Commission and the Scottish Wildlife Trust to have the Fairy Isles designated as a trust reserve. He seriously considered medicine, but entered pure science at Edinburgh University in 1941 before specialising in zoology. The war had its influence on his studies. Originally intending to go to the Far East with a naval commission to combat malaria, priorities cha...

• The Herald
• March 15, 2005

• Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 the Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999 Proposed Education Campus and Related Mixed Use Development on Land at Beechwood Farm, Inverness

• The Edinburgh Gazette Nbr. 26624, May 01, 2009
• Planning

• Lessons in Energy Saving Are a Success ; Educating People About the Environment Is Essential If We Are to Reduce Our Carbon Footprints. And If We Can Encourage Schools to Go Green, Future Generations Will Be Encouraged to Take On Board These Positive Steps

AT PRESENT 86 per cent of Stoke-on-Trent's 112 educational settings have signed up to the Eco-Schools environmental education programme, and the city is in the top five authorities in England with registered Eco-Schools. Children are the driving force behind this initiative. They lead the eco-committees and help carry out an audit to assess the environmental performance of their school.

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• November 23, 2010

• Evolutionary Wheel Always Turning

THE Nature Study continues: but to wipe the supercilious smiles off the faces of pedants who associate that term with a lack of knowledge and education, all you have to do is break it down into a few of its component parts. These are: ecology, botany, biology, environmental education, entomology, zoology and so on.

• Herald Express; Torquay (UK)
• September 29, 2010

• Entrepreneurial Intentions Among the Business Students of Higher Education Institutes of Punjab

Entrepreneurship is considered as the mean of wealth creation and personal fulfillment (Ma and Tan, 2005). This study attempts to find the . The data is collected from 300 students and the results indicate that males and people having families with business exposure are more inclined to start their own business enterprise than females and students not having family business exposure. In addition, environmental factors do not significantly affect the .

• Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research In Business
• Vol. 2 Nbr. 9, January 2011

• Helping Others Is Top of List for Citizen Prize ; Business&Abercrombie Awards2011

A TRANSPORT business which prides itself on ethics and corporate responsibility wants to encourage education and environmental awareness in Plymouth. Estover-based company Bombardier is supporting The Herald Business Awards, to be held alongside the Abercrombie Awards, which celebrates the city's best buildings.

• Plymouth Evening Herald, The
• January 31, 2011

• Environment Boost for Sw University ; a Westcountry University has Had Its Environmental Efforts Rewarded As It Moves Into the Top 15 of a Higher Education League Table.

A westcountry university has had its environmental efforts rewarded as it moves into the top 15 of a higher education league table. Exeter University received a "first class award for environmental performance" and rose 22 places to 14th in the 2009 People & Planet Green League Table. The table ranks 126 higher education institutions based on their environmental performance.

• Western Morning News, The
• June 20, 2009