Bite-size Blogger Collective

  Fig 1 Making a meal of data and knowledge Wales has many firsts in environmental education and a postcard educational database was invented by Welsh teachers in the late 1990s as “Postcards for Our Planet” (POP).  This was a pre INTERNET communication system linking schools in Wales and Portugal.  The objective was to model a global democracy of youth to access leaders with young people’s ideas and concerns about how to ‘rescue’ planet Earth.  It was a postcard version of the citizen’s environmental network proposed in the first UK strategy for sustainable development. The idea was to help young people identify the good and bad things about where they live, then work to improve the bad things and share their ideas, achievements and experiences globally with handmade postcards.  ‘Networking Nature With Postcards’ (NNP) began in the 2010s as a microlearning scheme scheme linking primary and secondary schools in Wales with their European counterparts.  ...

Skomer Island National Nature Reserve: illustrating a gift economy in operation   The Bite-size Blogger Collective consists of a group of individuals who have undertaken to produce blogs for self-learning about conservation management of wildlife and share ideas and experiences with others in a gift economy. Their blogs focus on the importance of having historic, social and material connections in belonging to place. This means properly valuing the spiritual, cultural and emotional values that nature brings to human behaviour.  In this context a gift has value in being declared a gift by the giver. The concept of a “gift” is deployed to understand how places are valued and cared for by people, families and community groups over time. The idea is to encourage people of all ages to explore the development of tangible and intangible connections between past, present and future places. Hopefully, an understanding of place as an inalienable gift may create a moral duty to nurtu...