We are pleased to announce the release of the first episode of the One School One Planet Podcast! The Podcast will host conversations on the fertile edges of permaculture, ecology and education. In the first episode Steve Jones and Jack Hunter discuss the work they are doing at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard with students from…
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On Friday 9th March we were down at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard building a Living Willow Dome with assistance from the Willow Bank, Living Willow specalists since 1985. The Dome is adjacent to what will soon become a medicinal herb garden, which we started mapping out on the site a couple of months ago. Activities…
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We were down at the Cae Bodfach Community Orchard this morning thinking about the next stage of its development. Steve and Jack of One School One Planet were joined by Dewi Morris, from the Severn Rivers Trust, John Waddington, a recent Sector39 PDC graduate, and Grace Maycock, who has been awarded funding to add a…
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“Environmental politics needs a new psychological sensitivity, a capacity to listen with the third ear for the passion and the longing that underlie many of our culture’s seemingly thoughtless ecolgocical habits. Those habits may be surrounded on all sides by mighty, often creditable, certainly exhilarating human motivations. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth, 1992,…
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Last week saw the end of the first phase of our One School One Planet classroom sessions. Over the last five weeks we have completed five units of our programme with a year 10 Welsh Baccalaureate class (click to be taken to a write-up about the session): Unit 1: Creatively Use and Respond to Change….
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The theme for Week 4 was ‘Obtain a Yield.’ To begin, and drawing on our emphasis on soil in the previous week, we asked the students to read through a newspaper article about a recent speech from the current UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove. We asked the students…
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