A Forest of Ideas
About 5 years ago, I met lots of thoughtful outdoor practitioners and academics and a fair few ‘pracademics’ in a lodge in the middle of Finland and had some of … Continue Reading →
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“Schools Out – Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten”
This award winning documentary by Lisa Molomot and Rona Richter is set in the town of Langnau am Albis in Switzerland where parents of 4 to 7 year olds can … Continue Reading →
Mushrooms #2 – the minizine
Here is the follow up to last week’s stop motion mushroom carving film. It’s a book and its free to download (but it is very small and you have to … Continue Reading →
Make Room for the Mushrooms
I’ve been making these little wooden mushrooms for quite a while now and they are a really good project to introduce people to whittling.I finally got round to setting up … Continue Reading →
Environmental Education for Sustainability
My good friends at Youth and Environment Europe based in Prague, have recently published a 32 page booklet entitled “Environmental Education for Sustainability”. This is a product of a week … Continue Reading →
A Hedgehog explains the Body Language of Trees
Trees are endlessly fascinating organisms with incredible forms, awesome strength and countless uses. I often stand and stare at a particular tree and wonder what it has been through … Continue Reading →
A Planktonic Epiphany!
I was recently invited to present a workshop at the Innovations in Marine Education event at Dale Fort Field Centre in Pembrokeshire. I last visited there 20 years ago and … Continue Reading →
Playing pirates on Boxing Day
There isn’t often much chance to get photos or video when running sessions but I was playing with a new camera on boxing day when all this great stuff happened … Continue Reading →
Feeling healthier by the seaside.
The Geographer in me rushed at this article with abundant skepticism, thinking that it was going to be another example of poor reporting of research in the press, but the … Continue Reading →