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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If 77% of adults are concerned by climate change and 77% of teachers have work-related symptoms of poor mental health, how are climate-concerned teachers coping? In my personal experience, and from talking to teachers in schools, they're not 🙄

The burden of being a climate concerned teacher

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Go me 🙌🏽 As my journey into climate education was kick started at Corbridge Middle School I couldn't think of a better place to launch my co-authored book on "Teaching the Climate Emergency in Primary Schools". #EduSky #ClimateEducation

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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 26/09/2026

🌧️ What would you ask the Environment Agency about flooding? Ahead of Flood Action Week, I’ll be putting listeners’ questions to Deputy Director Mark Garratt on the Coffee & Geography Podcast! Reply with your question by Thursday 1 October using: #GeogQOverABrew #CoffeeGeogPod

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Up to the pine at the side of the image this was an area of grass until we started planting native trees 14 years ago. Now I get to watch the leaves changing through the seasons from my kitchen window. Carbon is stored and habitat increased so the number of birds has risen ten fold. #LifeGoals 🌳

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So excited to see my new co-authored book in @climateconnections.bsky.social's roundup of back-to-school reads! I wish we didn't need books on teaching the climate emergency but here we are and I'll do everything I can to help 🔥🌍⏰

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The DfE seems very concerned by Neets, behaviour, SEND and attendance. Meanwhile temperatures are rising, storms are brewing and the land is parched... and kids are already missing school. The #ClimateEmergency is an Education Emergency. 🔥🌍⏰ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds

At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished early

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My working day is under threat. The bunny is back, nibbling clover outside my office window. Name suggestions, other than Roger or Bugs, gratefully received 🐰🥕

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If drilling is allowed in Rosebank & Jackdaw it puts teachers in a difficult position. Science is clear, we must leave fossil fuels in the ground. But to remain politically impartial we're not allowed to speak negatively about decisions the government takes. Saying "it's complicated" is inadequate.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The view from my office window is far more entertaining than work today. In fact it's more entertaining than anything on TV or social media too. #rabbit #distraction

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Looking to support your students understand the #ClimateEmergency and enable them to take action? We have a book coming out at the end of September that may help: www.sagepub.com/shop/buy-a-b...

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I often use the adage "every fraction of a degree matters" with young people, but it can be really difficult to explain why each fraction matters more than the last. Thanks @thierryaaron.bsky.social for explaining it on this 🧵

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been experimenting recently by ditching slides for some of my presentations. Speaking without a PowerPoint forces me to rely on my own presence, transforming delivery from a lecture into a more genuine conversation and building a deeper connection with the audience. Here's me at @rgs.org 👇🏽

Me talking on stage at the RGS conference

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was 57 years old before I saw my first kingfisher. Today! A streak of blue over a rippling stream in the Borders of Scotland. No photo but some great bird life here. #birdoftheday

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Climate educators base their teaching on climate science. Climate scientists say we must leave fossil fuels in the ground despite potential economic benefits. If teachers say that the government is wrong to drill they cross political impartiality guidelines 🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"It feels like we've made a home movie together, about the big family." #Nature 💚 This film is a joy to behold! Check out dates near you.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When Government talks about the wonderful "green careers of the future" for young people hopefully they understand it might include sending workers back down the mines 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Subterranean salad: underground farmers seek solution to food crisis in disused UK mines

Researchers in North Yorkshire feel the clock ticking as they aim to transform British food production

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@climatetrunk.bsky.social has some fantastic visuals and infographics to aid climate education in the classroom 👇🏽

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The UK is reliant on food imports. Now other countries are also struggling from global heating. In 2019 I wrote an article for the RHS on growing food in school. The basics in life are water, food, clothes & shelter. We might never become fully self sufficient but children love #SchoolGardening!

Article in an RHS magazine on me growing food in school

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 2014 the right-wing Global Warming Policy Foundation produced a scathing report titled "Climate Control: Brainwashing In Schools"which led to Gove removing Climate Education from the curriculum. The term #ClimateChange still doesn't appear in the national curriculum before children are 15 in KS4🧵

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Anyone else get this earlier? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wish people were as enthusiastic about taking radical and urgent #ClimateAction as they are about a solar #eclipse 🙄

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ten good suggestions for climate policies in this quick read. However, the most important one is missing. So... 11. Educate everyone (re: Article 12 of the Paris Agreement). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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From grey water to cool spaces, 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

20/6600 staff in Defra focus on climate adaptation. I suspect that's a better ratio than DfE staff working on climate education (number unspecified but I think it's only a few) 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The main reason I pay for @theguardian.com is the quality of climate journalism. In this article @georgemonbiot.bsky.social asks if we'll "hit the social tipping points before we hit the environmental tipping points"? I'm not sure, but I have fun putting climate into education to raise our chances!

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Crap headline of the week. As there's no mention of climate change in the current national curriculum before students are in KS4, and even at GCSE it's a tiny fraction of what they learn, I'm not convinced their anxiety is due to the formal education system🧵

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Teaching young people about the causes & consequences of climate change is tough. Telling them that the Government supports new drilling is where my job gets tricky as education becomes political. Why should children want to take their own climate action if the adults continue to burn their future?

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We're entering our 4th heatwave of '26. Across the UK are drought conditions, a threat of wildfires and farmers warning of food shortages. El Nino may make 2027 far worse. Yet Govt is focused on identifying children who are likely to become NEETs next decade 🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment

Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today was a beach day with my best girl Martha. She's an elder of the canine kind.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hubster has perfected the home baked sourdough boule. It's utterly delicious. The fact that climate breakdown has decimated wheat crops causes me excess misery. Now I have the potential of both an uninhabitable planet and no fresh bread 😬

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My work as a climate educator involves speaking with school students about what's happening on our rapidly heating planet. It's a job no one should have to do. Looking into the eyes of a 4 year old to explain why our climate is changing is really tough but even young children want to take action.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Many people are ignoring that this year's heat and drought is going to cause serious food shortages. If you grow your own, like we do on our smallholding, the reduced harvest is sadly evident. We estimate ~40-50% reduction in many crops. It's high time to include school gardening in the curriculum!

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We have the 'worst harvest in years'. Meanwhile UK supermarkets waste around 200,000 tonnes of food, equivalent to over 350 million meals a year. This petition needs ~2500 signatures to get a response but only has 11 days to go! Please sign and share 👇🏽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

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Petition: Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food & require their donation

Everyday, UK supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food while millions of people rely on food banks to survive. We believe this is wrong, and that food that is safe to eat should not end up in bins...

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Beauty doesn't fade with age. This painted lady simply has a more interesting story to tell 🦋

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We could travel the world to burn the planet or we could pop into Cumbria to visit stone circles. Guess which we did 😁 #HappyPlace #LongMeg #LittleMeg #MicroAdventures

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We could travel the world in search of paradise whilst causing additional environmental harm or we could find perfection in our own back garden and help to protect nature. Guess which we do 🌻🐝 #HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs #PollinatorsNotPolluters #Staycation

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Young people need access to work 💯% But why must we keep putting the economy first? Why is this all about business needs, not for what is best for our young people or the environment we live in?

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

List of Education Ministers since I began teaching: Michael Gove 2010–14 Nicky Morgan 2014–16 Justine Greening 2016–18 Damian Hinds 2018–19 Gavin Williamson 2019–21 Nadhim Zahawi 2021–22 Michelle Donelan 2022 James Cleverly 2022 Kit Malthouse 2022 Gillian Keegan 2022–24 Bridget Phillipson 2024–26 🧵

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In May 2024 Bridget Phillipson promised me and my eco-commitee she would put climate in education... she didn't manage it and we have another couple of years before the national curriculum for England goes through its slow "evolution". Hope Lucy Powell MP makes a better job of it.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Misinformation and disinfection make effective #ClimateEducation and communication much more challenging. But that's exactly the point isn't it?! #EduSky

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@edhawkins.org #WarmingStripes and @findingnature.bsky.social #BiodiversityStripes help to make complex data tangible. This academic year I've used my banner to communicate climate and nature to over 8,000 people aged from 3 to 83. All my sessions focus on action and solutions 💚🌍 #ClimateEducation

Holding up the warming stripes and biodiversity stripes.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's the holidays! So that means it's harvest time 🙌🏽

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This week I was at the excellent @teachfirst.bsky.social Ed Fest delivering workshops on the Climate Emergency & how to embed climate across the curriculum. The trainees I spoke to were all concerned by climate and their students are overheating in classrooms. New oil & gas pours fuel on the fire 🔥🌍

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I hereby declare it is hollyhock appreciation day! 🩷💜♥️

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Governments could be educating everyone on food insecurity. In the UK we waste 40% of food & rely on imports. Growing food in schools, communities and at home, won't solve all the issues but can raise appreciation of the challenges & provide additional fresh food. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘Super’ El Niño could cause global food price shock lasting into 2028, analysts say

Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I wonder if Maggie can come to talk to the Department for Education in England (for the sake of our kids) 🤔

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With the current heatwave forecast to continue until the start of the summer holidays in England, teachers may be questioning how they can protect and prepare their pupils for an uncertain future. A book I've co-authored on "Teaching the Climate Emergency in Primary Schools" may be helpful 👇🏽

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Children are becoming ill due to high classroom temperatures. Yet the DfE has excluded climate threats or eco anxiety from their updated KCSIE (keeping children safe in education) guidance. At what point will they accept the climate crisis is an education crisis? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms

Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke

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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 06/07/2026

My first article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk - please share widely, especially if you have any connection to an education setting. #ClimateChange #Schools #Education #Heatwaves #UKHeat #Safeguarding

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