It is Forest School Birmingham’s deepest wish that young people and those working in education awaken to the vital role that the natural world plays in the health and well-being of our species and that, by creating opportunities for children, young people and educators to find healing and peace in nature, those individuals will become attuned and empathetic to the natural environment around them and be more inclined to become champions of the Earth.
A respectful relationship with nature needs to start as soon as a child becomes conscious of the natural world, and that child needs constant reminders that there are few things more pleasurable than playing outdoors (without any plastic props), building a den or pond dipping… It is their aim that all schools should have regular interaction with nature as part of each school day.
The Poem's context is around the reporting of the Met Office which is the national meteorological service for the UK. They provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping you make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. The Met Office Hadley Centre is one of the UK’...
A crisis resulting from a natural disaster is not merely natural, but also depends upon how those disasters impact society because of weaknesses in infrastructure or societal response (e.g. despite a perfect weather forecast for Hurricane Katrina, over 1400 died). Such crises are often sudden-ons...
With an ever-increasing human population extracting value from Earth, the world faces severely degrading ecosystems. Over 1.3 billion people are affected by degrading agricultural land. It has never been so abundantly clear that we need functional ecosystems to support the complex life forms that...