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Green Up Your Act Education

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Our workshops bring environmental issues to life through stimulating discussions, engaging presentations and craft activities for primary & secondary education.

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Joined May 2012
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18 composting tips I learned while spending a day with no dig expert Charles Dowding 🌿🍃🌿🍁🪱 homesandgardens.com/gardens/…
18 composting tips I learned while spending a day with no dig expert Charles Dowding

18 composting tips I learned while spending a day with no dig expert Charles Dowding

In his new composting book, the no dig pioneer shares his secrets for successfully turning anything and everything into quality compost

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Smart particle could hold climate change key ✨💫🧪 bbc.com/news/articles/czrgy5…
Nottingham: Smart particle could hold climate change key

Nottingham: Smart particle could hold climate change key

A climate tech company hopes to use an £8m investment to further its research.

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Arts and crafts boost mental wellbeing - study - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y… 🎨🧑‍🎨👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 🎨
Anglia Ruskin study shows arts and crafts boost mental wellbeing

Anglia Ruskin study shows arts and crafts boost mental wellbeing

The finding is the result of a study of thousands of people.

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Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies amp.theguardian.com/lifeands… 🐦🦉🪺🦔🦇🦋

Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies

The long read: Gardens could be part of the solution to the climate and biodiversity crisis. But what are we doing? Disappearing them beneath plastic and paving

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Primary school improving wellbeing with nature bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ng… 🐸🦋🌱🪴🌻
Primary school in Cornwall improving pupil wellbeing with nature

Primary school in Cornwall improving pupil wellbeing with nature

A mining company helps children with painting bird boxes and making items out of recycled material.

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Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award!🪁 amp.theguardian.com/artandde…

Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

East London venue, previously known as the Museum of Childhood, described by judges as ‘truly inspirational’

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Switched on: a Swiss apartment with its own hydro plant - 🌧️🌊💫theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
Switched on: a Swiss apartment with its own hydro plant

Switched on: a Swiss apartment with its own hydro plant

Once part of a paper mill, this flat on the banks of Lake Zug has turned over a new leaf

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Green islands released in Bristol Harbour 🌱🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿 bbc.com/news/articles/cd1159…
Platforms covered in native plants released in Bristol Harbour

Platforms covered in native plants released in Bristol Harbour

It is hoped the floating ecosystems will provide habitats for wildlife and improve water quality.

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How do you follow My Octopus Teacher? With crocodiles, otters and a new book 🐙🐙🐙🐙 theguardian.com/environment/…
How do you follow My Octopus Teacher? With crocodiles, otters and a new book

How do you follow My Octopus Teacher? With crocodiles, otters and a new book

Oscar-winning film-maker Craig Foster on his first octopus encounter, the price of fame and his new video book about the power of connecting with animals

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Recycled wood to be used for Nottinghamshire food waste scheme 🌱🌿🍓🍏🥦🫛🌽♻️bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no… ♻️🪵
Recycled wood to be used for Nottinghamshire food waste scheme

Recycled wood to be used for Nottinghamshire food waste scheme

A community interest company says it aims to teach young people to grow their own food.

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The 2,800-acre arable farm begins its transformation this spring into the biggest grassland rewilding project in southern England 🌱🌿🍃🦋💚theguardian.com/environment/…
‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England

‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England

Lower Pertwood in Wiltshire aims to restore declining plants, insects and endangered species

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Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉theguardian.com/environment/… 🦉🦉🦉🦉
Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White

Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White

Allendale, Northumberland: I had thought they were gone for good, but in this peak year for vole numbers, they have rebounded

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Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots theguardian.com/environment/… 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots

Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots

Study finds female chrysalises that develop at higher temperatures have fewer eyespots, making them harder to see in dry grass

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England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature theguardian.com/environment/… 🦗🦆🌳🌿🏠🏡🏬🏪🏠🌱🏡🐸🐞🏠🦆🏪🏣🏫🏡🦋
England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature

England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature

From this week, development must result in more or better natural habitat than before, in a move hailed as one of the world’s most ambitious

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You can grow veg year round! 🌱🥦🫛🥬🧄🥗🌱podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
How to grow veg in winter with Rekha Mistry

How to grow veg in winter with Rekha Mistry

Podcast Episode · BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast · 16 November 2023 · 19min

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‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster theguardian.com/fashion/2024… 👚👕🥼🧥👖👗🧦🩳🧢👟
‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster

‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster

As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation

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Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots theguardian.com/environment/… 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots

Meadow brown butterflies ‘adapt’ to global heating by developing fewer spots

Study finds female chrysalises that develop at higher temperatures have fewer eyespots, making them harder to see in dry grass

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Whose Lime is it anyway? How the green ebikes took over our streets 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲theguardian.com/cities/2024/…
Whose Lime is it anyway? How the green ebikes took over our streets

Whose Lime is it anyway? How the green ebikes took over our streets

Are the tech giant’s bikes a convenient and sustainable form of transport or a menace clogging up pavements?

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Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉theguardian.com/environment/… 🦉🦉🦉🦉
Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White

Country diary: The barn owls are back in the valley | Susie White

Allendale, Northumberland: I had thought they were gone for good, but in this peak year for vole numbers, they have rebounded

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Mr Marshall's class 💙@MrMarshallclass25 May 2022
Many thanks to @GreenEducation for a thought provoking and practical #recycling session in Y5 this afternoon. Everyone left for home very pleased with the upcycled map notebook they had made. #Greenweek #ecofriendly
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