Creating an eco-friendly early years setting : a practical guide
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Creating an eco-friendly early years setting : a practical guide
（A David Fulton book）
Routledge, 2020
1st ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Description
This book offers a comprehensive guide to becoming a more eco-friendly setting, from small steps that can be taken to reduce waste and improve efficiency to setting up partnerships. It illustrates how sustainable choices can become a natural part of every child's education and how children, parents and staff can all inspire sustainable behaviour across local communities and at national and international levels.
Covering all aspects of practice including colleague and parental engagement, the environment, routines, resources, and teaching and learning, the book helps readers and practitioners to embed a sustainable approach in day-to-day practice. It draws on recent research, studies and stories of success and failure that can be adapted to fit everyone's own journey towards a more sustainable world. The chapters address topics such as:
plastics and their alternatives
sustainable food
sustainable resourcing
transport and trips
waste management.
Drawing on the experiences of real nurseries and including a wide range of activities and lists of resources, this is an essential read for practitioners, leaders, policymakers and all settings that want to help make sustainable choices a natural part of young children's lives.
Table of Contents
Parents
Working with Colleagues
Pedagogy
Plastics, and their Alternatives
Nappies and Wet Wipes
Play Activities
Children's Gardening
The Natural World and Pets
Electronic Equipment
Building Design
Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting, Personal Care
Sustainable Food
Sustainable Resourcing
Transport and Trips
Waste Management
Legal Framework and Relevant Accreditations
Advocacy
Standards, Curricula and Accreditation Specific to Early Years
Summary
Appendices
I. Tops Supplier Grading
II. Tops CSER Policy
III. Tops Sustainable Travel Plan example
IV. Tops Sustainability Check List example
V. GECCO Disposable/Plastic Nappy v Real/Reusable Nappy Poster
VI. Self-accreditation GECCO draft Wheel
VII. Eco festival dates
VIII. Useful websites
IX. Children's Books
X. Educators' Books
Index
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