Links To Sister Organisations
CHES
is an organisation that includes Senior Environmental Scientists from both colleges and universities. CHES aims to promote and facilitate Environmental Education within Higher Education
GEES
The Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) aims to improve the learning and teaching experiences of everyone in these disciplines in Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Based at the University of Plymouth, the GEES Subject Centre is a national and international hub in the exchange of knowledge on learning and teaching across the three disciplines. It provides a voice for these communities, contributing to government consultations and policy developments.
SocEnv
is a professional body, which represents environmentalists. The society has joined forces with other professional bodies, also known as constituent bodies. The Society aims to promote sustainable development and regulate environmental professionals. One way to do this is by offering the Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) award to their constituent bodies.
EFAEP
is an Association of Environmental Experts from all over Europe linking national platforms to raise the visibility and the influence of environmental professionals on the European level. N effective protection of the environment will be possible on a merely national level. In response to this challenge EFAEP was founded and is know providing a platform for an international exchange of environmental experts from all academic disciplines. EFAEP brings together professionals who are working in the field of environmental protection all over Europe and gives them an opportunity to exchange their experience from their home countries, to find common solutions and learn from successes and mistakes made in the current and future member countries of the European Union.
Science Council
is a leading independent body with a membership of over 28 professional institutions and learned societies, supported by their member networks of more than 300,000 scientists across the breadth of science and mathematics. The main purpose of the Science Council is to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in science, pure and applied.
Air Quality Web Sites
Air Quality related web site review everything from air quality data on your doorstep to the equipment needed to monitor it.
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Scientific Papers
Earth Portalis a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs.
ScienceDaily
is a fantastic online resource devoted to science, technology, and medicine. The free service brings breaking news, scientific papers and videos about the latest discoveries and research projects in everything from agriculture to zoology.
Education
Soil-Net
is a comprehensive educational resource, aimed at Key Stages 1 to 4 (ages 5 to 16) concerning soils, their functions, and the challenging future that they face. Read a report on this website in the December 2006 e-Newsletter.
Sustainable Learning
is a programme providing a structured, task based approach to the way energy and water is used in schools. Schools working through this programme have realised energy reductions of 10% on average and have a better understanding of how energy and water is used in their schools.
FutureMorph
is designed to show young people, parents and career advisors some of the amazing and unexpected places that studying science, technology, engineering and maths can take you.
Organisations
Environmental Chemistry Group(ECG) considers all aspects of the complex relationships between chemistry and the environment. The ECG aims to understand the behaviour of chemical species in the water, soil and atmospheric environments; exploring their sources, reactions, transport and in particular their effects on each of these environments.
Foundation for Environmental Education
(FEE) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation promoting sustainable development through environmental education.
Sense About Science
is an independent charitable trust that responds to the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and radiation.
Newsletters
HEA Sustainability Newsletteris a bi-monthly, e-Newsletters on on the Higher Education Academy's sustainable development activities, services, resources and publications, funding opportunities and forthcoming events.
Science for Environment Policy
is a newsletter produced on behalf of the European Commission. It is designed to help the busy policy maker keep up to date with the latest environmental research findings.
Blogs
Becoming Greenis Morgan Phillip record of trying to put into practice the ideas he explored in his PhD thesis. The blog exists to chart his adventures in Education for Sustainability.
Law
Law and your Environmentis to improve access to environmental law information as well as empowering more people to participate in environmental matters in line with the objectives of the Aarhus Convention 1998.