At last some good news from The USA! Let’s put the last four grim years behind us and look forward to a much brighter future along with the millions of Americans who voted for Biden and his green agenda. More here
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Author: Christopher Etchells
Co-Director of ECS - English Country Schools - residential English Language summer courses for children and teenagers. Coordinator of ELT Footprint UK aiming to promote environmental responsibility in UK English Language Teaching.
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Count Us In
When it comes to reducing our carbon footprint, there is an argument that focussing on individual responsibility lets the real culprits off the hook.
But the truth is that individual and corporate responsibility are two sides of the same coin and the sad fact is that many people do little or nothing personally to reduce their carbon footprint.
That’s where Count Us In can help, aiming to encourage one billion people take practical steps to reduce their carbon footprint that together can make a big difference: over 30 million kilos of CO2 saved at the last count.
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US Elections
No need to ask who we support in the upcoming US elections. Joe Biden has promised to implement a $2 trillion green energy plan if he wins. And while we all know there is a difference between what politicians say and what they do in power, at least Joe Biden is able to talk intelligibly on the subject. Fingers crossed..
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Mock COP26
From 19th November to 1st December 2020 a youth-led online conference will show the world what would happen if young people were the decision makers.
The conference will follow a similar structure to the postponed COP26 climate summit and aims to raise the ambition of world leaders in tackling the climate emergency.
Learn more and give your support at https://www.mockcop.org/
In the race to zero carbon we sometimes forget that species extinction is at least as big a threat to humanity as climate change.
This article from the UK’s Guardian Newspaper argues that restoring degraded natural lands is highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinction, so providing a double benefit.
Keep this in mind when you are choosing your organisation’s carbon compensation project.
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Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Do not miss this incredibly important video. It puts climate change into the context of a rapidly changing and developing world, offering hope for us all.
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Register now
We are now accepting registrations for our TEDx Countdown event on 14th October.
We will be presenting talks from famous and leading thinkers on climate change, discussing aspects of these and proposing ways for UK English language teaching to help play its part in tackling the climate and ecological crisis.
View the programme here.
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Bloomberg Green
Edition 2 of Bloomberg Green magazine is out now and makes for some very interesting reading.
When organisations like Amazon, Apple and Walmart move towards carbon neutrality – and have the evidence to support this – we can be sure things are changing.
Nevertheless, it’s still ‘A race against heat, and humanity is losing’ – so don’t get too comfortable.
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Green your lessons
There is a wealth of material out there for people who want to bring the environment into their lessons.
But there are also things you can easily do to give your lessons an environmental twist, regardless of the syllabus. For lots of ideas, why not sign up for Language Teaching for the Planet with ELTSustainable?
Next course begins tomorrow, 22 September 2020.
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Innovate2020
Good luck to everyone at InnovateELT 2020 for their conference today and tomorrow. It has an environmental theme and contains much that will be of interest to those seeking to promote environmental responsibility in English Language Teaching.