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How learners can protect the planet is set to be bumped up curriculums, after teachers complained the lack of such content in syllabuses stops them promoting sustainability to students.

Over half of the respondents to a new survey by the Education and Training Foundation said they do not include sustainability issues in their teaching because it is not in the curriculum for qualifications.

Sustainability, as the ETF describes it, covers issues affecting the health of the planet as well as how to use social structures to promote good quality of life and economic prosperity for all.

Awarding bodies such as Pearson, OCR, City and Guilds and NCFE are looking at how to "weave sustainability as a principle into qualifications, in the same way that they do numeracy and literacy and digital skills and equality, diversity and inclusion," the ETF's national head of education for sustainable development Charlotte Bonner told FE Week.

"It's on their agendas, but there's definitely more work to be done," she said, especially after 68 per cent of respondents told the survey the UK's post-16 education system does not adequately educate learners on sustainability issues.

Funding has 'limited creativity and innovation' in teaching sustainability

While the survey was originally meant for the foundation's own use, they hope making it public means it will be of use to providers for questioning what they are teaching about sustainability, and whether they are promoting a culture among staff and students to improve on sustainability.

How they are making their estate more sustainable, including with energy efficient technology, and how they can work with local stakeholders are two other questions Bonner hopes this report prods providers into addressing.

Another issue with educating learners is there has been a dearth of work on sustainability in the sector since the late 2000s, the foundation has realised.

Bonner attributes this to some "really big challenges" the FE sector has had to face over the past decade, including area reviews and funding cuts.

The report recognises funding and time constraints have "limited creativity and innovation" when it came to including sustainability in teaching, something which "needs to be recognised in any sustainability education programmes targeting FE and training practitioners or providers".

The ETF has also highlighted how Ofsted no longer provides guidance regarding sustainable development in learning and skills inspections, with Bonner saying the inspection framework is "incredibly influential" on providers.

"People feel that there's opportunity for other top down drivers, not just within the regulatory frameworks," Bonner said.

Staff 'need urgent support and training' to tackle climate emergency

Training for staff is one such area which could help spread sustainability education across the sector, with the Association of Colleges' climate commissioner and former president Steve Frampton saying all FE staff "need urgent support and training" to teach learners about tackling the climate emergency.

He said while staff and leaders are "developing significant pockets of excellence," the sector "lacks the vital significant investment, training, and resources to tackle these global challenges".

It feels like sustainability is a zeitgeist in the sector

Employers and business organisations can and are moving the needle on sustainability education, according to Bonner.

Organisations such as the Confederation of British Industry and Engineering Construction Industry Training Board have been discussing how firms can retrain existing workers, as well as bring on younger ones, to become recharging engineers, for example.

Which is helpful as existing employees "don't need to go through a three-year electrician course to start doing that particular job," Bonner pointed out.

"I think it feels like sustainability is a zeitgeist in the sector, it does feel like there's a lot of interest," she said, and hopes the research "will be of use to lots of people".

An audit of sustainability education content in the most popular FE qualifications was carried out alongside this survey and will be released next month.

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Sustainability issues may be prioritised in qualifications to break down barriers to teaching

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How learners can protect the planet is set to be bumped up curriculums, after teachers complained the lack of such content in syllabuses stops them promoting sustainability to students. Over half of the respondents to a new survey by the Education and Training Foundation said they do not include sustainability issues in their teaching because it is not in the curriculum for qualifications.

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et me tell you a story. Long, long ago, the Pelasgians, a people who lived in Thessaly, planted a forest grove in honour of Demeter - the goddess who breathes life into seeds, who makes young leaves unfurl, who unclenches the grip of winter, who taught humans how to bind straw into sheaves. The forest was so dense, so close-packed with elms and apple and pear trees, that you couldn't shoot an arrow through it if you tried. Demeter loved the place beyond almost any other.

But one day, a king called Erysichthon brought 20 men to the forest armed with axes. The first tree that was hacked by a bronze blade was a tall, elegant poplar. That tree screamed in agony.

Demeter heard and she came straight away, disguised as her own priestess. "What are you doing to the goddess's sacred grove?" she said. "Stop this now - or Demeter will be angry." Erysichthon just glared at her. "Get out of my way," he said, "or this axe won't be just chopping down trees. I need this timber to make a roof for my new banqueting hall."

At that moment, the goddess showed herself in her true form. In the place of the priestess stood an immense, blazing immortal, her head brushing the sky. The king's underlings scattered. She let them go. But not Erysichthon. "Go build a hall," she said, with utter disdain. "You'll need plenty of feasts from now on."

From that moment the king was afflicted with a terrible hunger. He could not stop eating. He ate every animal in his family's flocks: cows, sheep, goats. He ate the horses, the mules; he even ate the palace cat, good mouser as she was. And yet he wasted away. Melted, like snow melting from a mountain's peak. In the end, he ended up begging for crusts at the side of the road. And still he never satisfied his greed.

The Forked Forest Path by Olafur Eliasson at Fabrica, Brighton. Photograph: Fabrica/Tom Thistlethwaite

It's an old tale - this retelling is based on the version by the third-century BC Alexandrian poet Callimachus. In Ovid's Metamorphoses Erysichthon even pimps out his daughter to feed his appetite, making, as classicist Helen Morales points out in her book Antigone Rising, "a connection between the abuse of the environment and the abuse of women". JRR Tolkien will have known the story when he invented his Ents, the giant, shaggy, bark-encrusted, slow-moving "tree shepherds" who magnificently rise up against the tree-felling Saruman in The Two Towers. The story of Erysichthon is certainly a myth for now, for 2021. The king's carelessness, his unthinking greed, lead, via ecological destruction, to his own downfall.

Just as you accept that the actors go home at the end of the night, we can accept that this is just here for the time being

This story was an association that came to mind when Es Devlin led me through her Forest for Change at the London Design Biennale - 400 trees arrayed in the neoclassical courtyard of Somerset House, on the north bank of the Thames, this month. Back in June 2019, the stage designer was told that the one thing no one could do amid that stern 18th-century Palladianism was plant trees. It was a stipulation, so they say, of the building's architect, William Chambers. So, of course, that is what she immediately decided she must do: make a wood within those chilly geometries. She was inspired, too, by her reading of Richard Powers' 2018 novel The Overstory, in which a chestnut tree is the real protagonist, the human stories having to give way to the grander, slower drama of a tree that persists through many generations of humans.

The tree as protagonist ... Richard Powers poses for a portrait in Great Smokeys National Park in Tennessee. Photograph: Mike Belleme

The effect is wonderfully disorienting. One imagines the city of the future, ruined, the foliage taking over again, returning southern England to forest, as in Richard Jefferies' extraordinary post-apocalyptic novel of 1885, After London; or like Joseph Michael Gandy's 1830s drawings of the Bank of England, showing the then-new building as a ruinscape, fringed by trees. One of Devlin's pleasures during lockdown, she tells me, was to enjoy the grand trees of Dulwich Park in London, some of them remnants of the Great North Wood that once spread here. Like many of those who found themselves with time to notice such things, she appreciated the turn of the seasons afresh in the budding, leafing, blossoming and leaf-fall of trees during the pandemic.

Devlin's wood is, as she admitted, "a fake wood": the trees are in pots concealed by fragrant bark chips, the species come from far and wide (here are everything from Chinese metasequoias to English hornbeams) and the birds that sing are doing so via hidden speakers, chirruping a soundscape designed by Brian Eno. Paths through this little wood lead to a grove that is pedagogical rather than sacred - there's a display relating to the UN's Goals for Sustainable Development. Yes, she says, resources were of course used to bring the 400 saplings here. But afterwards, they are going to worthy homes (a children's hospice among them). "It's a piece of theatre," she says. "Just as you accept that the actors go home at the end of the night, we can accept that this is just here for the time being." If it is theatre, I wonder where the drama is. "It is the context," she says with certainty. "The space is so relentlessly born of human power and Anthropocene hubris. It is a triumph of rectilinearity." Devlin's make-believe wood challenges that.

It feels as if there has been a dendrocentric turn in culture recently; a new sensitivity to the arboreal and, more broadly, the botanical. Max Porter's novel Lanny, set in an English village around the time of the Brexit vote, suggested that there might be old magic lurking in the plants that live quietly among the tree-roots of the forest, a hint that not all agency resides in noisy, shortlived human beings. The bestselling book The Hidden Life of Trees, by German forester Peter Wohlleben, has been revelatory for many readers in his development of, and popularisation of, Dr Suzanne Simard's research establishing that trees communicate with each other via the mycelial web - a hidden network of fungi through which, for example, stronger trees can sustain weaker ones. (A new book by Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees, considers human-tree relationships.) Tree-based art could recently be seen, for example, at the Brighton festival: Olafur Eliasson's The Forked Forest Path, which taps into a deep relationship of folklore with the forest, recalling the dark wood where humans may lose themselves.

Climate crisis warning ... artist Maya Lin installed 49 dead Atlantic White Cedar trees in Madison Square Park in New York City last month. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

But what if all this were taken a step further? Theatre director Katie Mitchell has long been exploring sustainability and climate crisis in her work (and, personally, last took an aeroplane nine years ago). Next month, she is directing the premiere of a work, Houses Slide, by composer Laura Bowler, with the London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre, London. The entire thing is off-grid. It will be powered by people pedalling bicycles, including the vocalist, Jessica Aszodi. (Sian Edwards, the conductor, offered to get on two wheels too, but Mitchell thought it might be a bit much.) She hopes it will be fun; she hopes it will "invite a conversation about the use of carbon in the making of music". But she's also considering something even more extraordinary-sounding: a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard - from the point of view of the trees.

"I thought it would be interesting to give them the central position," she says of the production, which is planned for the Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, next year, "so that whatever you hear as an audience is fragmented; 60% of the play you'd cut." Its an approach similar to the one she took for Alice Birch's Ophelias Zimmer, which was essentially Hamlet from the point of view of Ophelia. "But then I thought, 'That's not radical enough.' I realised that the cherry orchard itself is a problem. It is itself a product of human industrialisation." There was also the question of time: human time is puny, flashes past in an instant, compared with the life of trees. She is considering, now, doing the play backwards, using "the cherry orchard as the wardrobe - as in Narnia - or the portal to the whole story of trees, right back to the carboniferous period. The presence of humans would be fleeting and fragmentary."

This sounds ... challenging? "It is definitely an experimental idea and may fail; but perhaps in failing might open the door to some young wizard who can find a better way," she says. The point, she suggests, is that theatre has not only to be produced sustainably, but that the form of plays, what goes on stage, should shift its point of view away from what has always been at its heart - human drama, human conflict - to represent the other organisms that populate the world. What next, I wonder: Macbeth from the point of view of Birnam Wood? Midsummer Night's Dream from the point of view of "a wood near Athens"? As You Like It from the point of view of the Forest of Arden? Why not? Maybe it's time we did hear the "tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones".

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Call the copse! The sudden flourishing of culture about trees

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et me tell you a story. Long, long ago, the Pelasgians, a people who lived in Thessaly, planted a forest grove in honour of Demeter - the goddess who breathes life into seeds, who makes young leaves unfurl, who unclenches the grip of winter, who taught humans how to bind straw into sheaves.

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As blossom starts to reappear to brighten up our year, we are reminded that in an ever-changing world, nature will always be a source of comfort for many of us. Discover more about these beautiful blooms that you've noticed during #BlossomWatch and the benefits they bring.

In the coming weeks we'll be sharing where you can see dazzling blossom displays near you, and how we're involving the community in the joys of the season.

In this article:

Blossom is one of the first signs that spring is well and truly on the way, and is a welcome sight of colour after the frosty winter months. From the pinker hues to the cloudy white, these delicate blossoms are a joyful sight and a reminder that warmer days are on their way.

Blossom is not only beautiful to look at, it also supports a variety of wildlife. Take a moment on your daily walk or run to look out for birds, butterflies or bees that might be attracted to blossom trees down your street.

We're asking you to share the beauty of blossom on social media. Upload pictures of your local blossom, tag the location of where it is and use #BlossomWatch to spread the joy of spring with others. Helping nature and spring blossom flourish is simple when you donate to our everyone needs nature appeal or help to plant a tree.

Blossoming trees in our care

We care for hundreds of trees that blossom in the spring, many of which are historical varieties. This includes the tree said to inspire Newton's theory of gravity and the orchard that Thomas Hardy loved to play in as a child.

In Japan, spring blossom is celebrated with the traditional custom of Hanami, which means 'flower viewing' and is an opportunity to take in the beauty of flowers.

Notice the calming effects of spring blossom

Spending time to dwell on nature can improve your wellbeing. Research shows that just 20 minutes could help to improve your mood. But only six per cent of adults and seven per cent of children take the time to celebrate seasonal events such as the first day of spring.

Take a different route on your daily exercise to see if you can spot blossom in your neighbourhood and embrace the turn of the season. Why not take a quick snap of a blossoming tree and send it to your loved ones to share the moment with others? Or you could join in with #BlossomWatch on social media to spread the joy of spring blossom.

For younger ones, as part of our '50 things to do before you're 11¾', celebrating blossom could mean you watch a bird singing loudly in a tree (no. 44) or get up for the sunrise (no. 23) to use your daily walk to see how the golden hour lights up blossoming trees down your street in different ways.

Celebrate Hanami wherever you are and connect with nature to lift your spirits, even if it's just for a moment or so.

Identifying spring blossom

Ever wondered when the best time of year is to spot blossom in the UK? We've rounded up different types of blossom in the order of when you can see them, so you know when to keep a look out.

Podcast: A toast to blossom

In our special blossom podcast episode we chat to Andy Beer, author of Every Day Nature, and hear how the arrival of blossom is a date not to be missed on his nature calendar. This episode was recorded before coronavirus and originally published in March 2020.

A showcase of blossom for armchair viewing

How you can help support nature

In recent years, we've seen how climate change can impact the health of habitats such as blossom. It's now more important than ever to play our part, big or small, in keeping these homes as healthy havens for wildlife. You can play your part by making a promise for nature and making your garden a place for wildlife to thrive.

From simply letting the grass grow, helping to plant a tree, making seed balls for the birds or building a bug hotel, we've got loads of ideas to get you started.

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As blossom starts to reappear to brighten up our year, we are reminded that in an ever-changing world, nature will always be a source of comfort for many of us. Discover more about these beautiful blooms that you've noticed during #BlossomWatch and the benefits they bring.

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City of Trees is delivering a green recovery and tackling the climate emergency head on, through planting trees and restoring woodlands for the people and wildlife of Greater Manchester. Working with communities, organisations, and businesses to build an ambitious movement, dedicated to planting a tree for every citizen within just five years.

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City of Trees is delivering a green recovery and tackling the climate emergency head on, through planting trees and restoring woodlands for the people and wildlife of Greater Manchester. Working with communities, organisations, and businesses to build an ambitious movement, dedicated to planting a tree for every citizen within just five years.

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Black Girls Hike UK C.I.C -Diversifying the outdoors, providing opportunities for Black women to explore and reconnect with nature.

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Making the outdoors more inclusive

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The BAME women making the outdoors more inclusive

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he British countryside being the preserve of the white middle classes is a perception that is backed by stark figures, with ethnic minorities often deterred from heading into the outdoors due to deep-rooted, complex barriers. At the time of the last census in 2011, 13% of the UK population, around 8.1 million people, identified themselves as black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME).

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Identify Trees With Our Tree ID app - Woodland Trust

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Our Tree ID app is an easy step-by-step tool to help you identify trees in your garden, park or countryside wherever you are in the UK, whatever the season.

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Manchester Museum's extensive botanical collection brings together plants from all over the globe.

Containing around three-quarters of a million specimens, the botanical collection forms a physical record of where plants and fungi have been found. The Museum collection has grown from the mid-19th century onwards as people with a passion for the natural world have donated their personal collections. The backbone of the collection was created by merging three large private collections from James Cosmo Melvill (worldwide plants donated in 1904), Leopold Hartley Grindon (cultivated plants donated in 1910) and Charles Bailey (European plants donated in 1917). The most recent significant addition has been the collection of British brambles donated by Alan Newton in 2012.

Housed in the Museum's botanical storeroom, the herbarium, most of the botanical specimens are dried, pressed and mounted onto sheets of paper or stored in paper envelopes. These are all labelled with the plant name, who picked it, where from and when. As well as the pressed plants the collection also contains dried fruits and seeds, timbers, microscope slides, illustrations, models, fungi and jars of medicinal plants.

Today, the collection is used for art, science and education to explore and interpret the world around us. For information about specimens, collectors and how we use the collection please visit our blog or follow us on twitter @Aristolochia

To enquire about loans to other research institutions please e-mail: lindsey.loughtman@manchester.ac.uk or rachel.e.webster@manchester.ac.uk

Please help us support our collections work and other activities by donating to the Museum on our Support Us page.

Donations large or small can make a big difference. Many thanks.

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Manchester Museum's extensive botanical collection brings together plants from all over the globe. Containing around three-quarters of a million specimens, the botanical collection forms a physical record of where plants and fungi have been found. The Museum collection has grown from the mid-19th century onwards as people with a passion for the natural world have donated their personal collections.

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We've teamed up with Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) to bring you a Nature Meditation Video focussing on Platt Fields Market Garden in Fallowfield.

This video helps to bring the outside into the home of people who may be self isolating during lockdown. It's also useful for anyone who wants to take 20 minutes out of their day to be mindful with some help from our local nature!

The video has 360 degree sound so the use of headphones can improve your experience whilst watching. Be mindful by relaxing with your headphones in and enjoy the scenes and noises of nature. You can also pause the video on your favourite scenes and sketch what you see. Or use the video for meditation by concentrating on your breathing as instructed in the introduction.

Enjoy the video and let's all look forward to visiting Platt Fields Market Garden as soon as we're able to once it's safe! Tweet us your thoughts on the video @buzzmanc

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We've teamed up with Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) to bring you a Nature Meditation Video focussing on Platt Fields Market Garden in Fallowfield. This video helps to bring the outside into the home of people who may be self isolating during lockdown.

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Gifts of Gravity and Light is a new collection of nature writing that shines a light on the natural world in all its biodiversity as experienced by those who, for reasons of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, upbringing or disability, are not often seen or heard when it comes to nature writing. With a foreword by Bernadine Evaristo, and contributions from Kaliane Bradley, Pippa Marland, Testament, Michael Malay, Tishani Doshi, Jay Griffiths, Luke Turner, Anita Roy, Raine Geoghegan, Zakiya Mckenzie, Alys Fowler and Amanda Thomson - these are the voices of those whose perspective is not necessarily that of a 'insider'.

Telling in the story of the year in four broad sections - Winter, Spring , Summer, Autumn - this is an almanac that will entertain, surprise and enthral everyone for whom nature is as important as breathing.

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Gifts of Gravity and Light by Anita Roy, Pippa Marland | Waterstones

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Gifts of Gravity and Light is a new collection of nature writing that shines a light on the natural world in all its biodiversity as experienced by those who, for reasons of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, upbringing or disability, are not often seen or heard when it comes to nature writing.

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Your pictures on the theme of 'the beauty of trees'

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A selection of striking images from our readers on this week's theme.

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Bird Sounds Spectacular : Morning Bird Sound

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Natural world soundscapes. Lots of beautiful birdsong

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Expert advice on using a camera trap to reveal the hidden wildlife in your garden.

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Our team of experts have created bespoke activities in all of our venues for you to enjoy when you visit. We use technology to bring you audio guides and augmented reality games. All of the activities are free and most will show you something about the place that you may have missed, even if you've visited many times.

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Our team of experts have created bespoke activities in all of our venues for you to enjoy when you visit. We use technology to bring you audio guides and augmented reality games. All of the activities are free and most will show you something about the place that you may have missed, even if you've visited many times.

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Shazam for birds

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The way in which it works is simple - make a recording with your smartphone, and Warblr will identify the species of bird/s that can be found in that recording, providing you with images and descriptions to help you learn more about our feathered friends.

In using Warblr, you will be contributing to a citizen science project, and hopefully one day helping to protect endangered species. We are making the recordings and the data collected on species identification freely available to be used for research and conservation. Listen to some of the recordings our users are sharing right now here.

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The Manchester Green Trail is a walking circuit made up of 14 routes connecting many of the beautiful green spaces, public parks and tree-lined streets around the city.
The trail is a collaboration between Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester, and Manchester and Salford Ramblers.

The aim of the Manchester Green Trail is to create a high quality walking route across the City of Manchester through its parks and open spaces that will:

Increase the amount of people using the parks, woodlands and open spaces which will make them livelier and as a consequence safer, sustainable and more inviting places for people to visit.

Encourage healthier lifestyles and reduce the amount people use their cars by promoting walking routes that are accessible to everyone.

You'll find an overview of the Manchester Green Trail and all the 14 maps for viewing, downloading and printing below.

Happy walking!

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Listen to forests around the world

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tree.fm - Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈

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People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.