Music Mark column: sustainability and music ed

In April we launched our campaign This Is Not A Rehearsal, to raise awareness of the climate crisis and to encourage colleagues within the music education sector to take action on this important matter. Since launching the campaign we’ve delved into a range of topics, from musical instrument sustainability to embedding climate education into the music curriculum. As an organisation, we’ve started working on ways to improve our organisational carbon footprint and educate the staff team on the climate crisis. We started back in April with some carbon literacy training for the Music Mark team, delivered by The Carbon Literacy Project, which got us thinking about different aspects of the climate crisis. Fast-forward to now, and we have just delivered our first session of carbon literacy training for our network which was specific to the music education sector. More dates will be coming for this session in the spring term.