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The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has been urged not to “jeopardise green education” after threatening to axe a scheme aimed at creating sustainable schools.

The news comes after the government controversially cut the schools rebuilding programme and axed a scheme to create 5,000 green work experience placements. Now the Department for Education looks set to drop the Sustainable School Strategy.

The plan was condemned by People & Planet and Friends of the Earth. Read more

Congratulations to:

Sue Gaughan of Birmingham
Stephanie Gray of Douglas, Isle of Man
David Howe of Heanor
Jackie Irwin of Douglas, Isle of Man
and Alan Wickens of Ashton under Lyne

Copies of ‘It’s My World Too’ and ‘The Good Green Footprint’ are on there way to you now.

The Green Pages and the Creation Challenge network teamed up with the publisher Lion Children’s to offer you a chance to win one of 5 sets of It’s My World Too and The Good Green Footprint, by just answering a simple question.

For more information about Lion Children’s selection of green books, visit http://www.lionhudson.com/green

The Green Pages and the Creation Challenge network have teamed up with the publisher Lion Children’s to offer your chance to win one of 5 sets of It’s My World Too and The Good Green Footprint, by just answering this simple question:

On what topical phrase does The Good Green Footprint play?
a) carbon dioxide
b) carbon footprint
c) carbon dating

Entries close on 28th Feb and can be made online at http://www.jotform.com/preview/10065939390.

It’s My World Too (Discover Endangered Animals and Their Habitats to give children an awareness of important environmental issues and encouragement to be kind to their planet) and The Good Green Footprint (Crafts to Help Save the Planet)

For more information about Lion Children’s selection of green books, visit http://www.lionhudson.com/green

The Government’s department of Energy and Climate Change have just launched a survey to ask you how they can best listen to the views and ideas of young people on the issue of climate change. Take part

The brand spanking new Go Green Week guide from People & Planet for schools and colleges is here! Taking place just before Valentine’s Day, Go Green Week 2010 is all about feeling the love for the climate. Download guide.

It’s My World Too – Discover Endangered Animals and Their Habitats
Elena Pasquali.

The book is well illustrated and presented but suffers from an apparent mismatch between the illustrations and the text, and it is hard to place who is the target readership.

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Good Green Footprint – Crafts to Help Save the Planet
Christina Goodings

This book has some brilliant ideas to help children understand the concept of reduce, re-use, re-cycle. The activities and crafts are fun and simple for children to complete. The ideas can be adapted for other projects and the materials are easy to find around the home. The illustrations are colourful and helpful pictures make the instructions easy to follow.

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