The Honestly Allegedly Podcast

They keep saying schools are "greening" education - tree-planting days, eco clubs, a few climate facts bolted onto a lesson plan. But only 2% of global climate funding goes to education. So what's actually going on?

On this episode of Honestly Allegedly, we sit down with Olivia Copsey, Global Lead for Eco-Schools at the Foundation for Environmental Education, to find out why "greening education" so rarely becomes real classroom impact — and what it would actually take to fix that.

You'll learn:
🌱 Why climate education often fails to translate into action
🌱 How the Eco-Schools 7-step framework turns a school into a sustainability hub
🌱 Why local and indigenous knowledge belongs inside the curriculum, not outside it
🌱 How project-based learning boosts attendance, wellbeing, and academic performance
🌱 Why only 2% of global climate funding goes to education and what that reveals

We also get into the frustration educators feel every day: policy conversations that never reach classrooms, and why sustainability education keeps being treated as optional instead of essential - when it touches everything from inclusion and school feeding to mental health and climate anxiety.

Essential watching for educators, policymakers, sustainability advocates, and parents who want climate education to be real, not performative.

👤 Guest: Olivia Copsey, Global Lead for Eco-Schools, Foundation for Environmental Education
🎙️ Hosts: Honestly Allegedly, with Faith and Miedou

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What happens when we stop talking about development in big words and start asking what it actually looks like in people’s everyday lives?

In this episode of Honestly Allegedly, we sit down with Mayokun Iyaomolere, an environmental sustainability professional, climate advocate, and Founder/Executive Director of Plogging Nigeria, for a conversation about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainability, education, waste management, and the gap between talking about development and actually making it understandable and useful to the people it is meant to serve.

We talk about the questions that often get overlooked:

Are we really reaching the people we want to help?
Do communities actually understand the development messages being shared with them?
And what happens when the people we’re trying to educate have questions that the materials don’t answer?

This isn’t just a conversation about the SDGs.

It’s a conversation about understanding, communication, people, and what development looks like beyond the reports and statistics.

🎙️ Guest: Mayokun Iyaomolere
Environmental Sustainability Professional | Climate Advocate | Founder/Executive Director, Plogging Nigeria

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Where does the name "Honestly Allegedly" actually come from and what is it protecting? In this first episode, we get into what international development really looks like on the ground, why independence hasn't always meant control, and why young people keep getting invited into rooms just to take notes. Honest, unfiltered, and not asking for permission.

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