Education for Sustainability Resources

These resources can assist you to raise sustainability issues in any discipline. They can help your studentstowards learning outcomes about sustainability.

Useful Links: Australian

ACTS Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability

(As a member of ACTS, all ECU staff and students may access the members’ area)

ARIES The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability

  • What is Sustainability?
  • About Sustainability
  • Principles
  • Education for Sustainability
  • The Australian government’s National Action Plan
  • Projects for the education sector
  • Indigenous concepts of country
  • EfS in Pre-service Teacher Education
  • Publications

Australian Government: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

  • Living sustainably: Sustainability education
  • Environment and Natural Resources
  • Sustainable Australia Report Conversations with the Future (May 2013) by the National Sustainability Council
  • Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI)
  • Educating for a Sustainable Future – A national environmental education statement for Australian schools

Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE)

National Centre for Sustainability

  • Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council Sustainability Guideline Brief
  • Manufacturing Knowledge & Skills for Sustainability Resource Manual

Part 1 Guideline Brief

Part 2 Teacher Mentor Guide

Part 3 Learner Guide

Part 4 Resource Toolkit

Sustainability Resources for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Graduate Skills: Managing for Environmental Sustainability – an ALTC report

Education for Sustainability Professional Learning Hub

EfS Capabilities Framework

Resources including digital media

Publications

Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living

ECOS magazine: Science for Sustainability

Sustainability Thinking Song by Moana Lutton ECU

BFP Billiton

Westpac

Useful Links: Australian Universities

The Australian National University (ANU)

Griffith University

La Trobe University

Macquarie University

Monash University: Monash Sustainability Institute

Swinburne University of Technology: National Centre for Sustainability

University of Queensland

University of Melbourne

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

University of Western Sydney

Useful Links: International

AASHE The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

As a member of ACTS, all ECU staff and students may access AASHE resources. Simply, register with ACTS then follow the link via the ACTS website.

  • Conference papers 2008e.g. From Zero to 240 in 5 years: The Presidio MBA Approach to Curriculum Design for Sustainable Business Education
  • Resources on Sustainability Curriculum
  • Education & Research

Business: A clothing company questions the environmental and social impact of using cotton

Creative Change Educational Solutions - Curriculum & Resource Center

Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability (DANS)

  • Resources by Disciplines e.g. Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Design, Drama, Engineering, English & Creative Writing, Environmental Science, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, and Sociology
  • Resources that cross Disciplinese.g. sustainable development
  • List of relevant Journals

The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) is a not-for-profit charity with a membership of over 300 universities and colleges supporting sustainability within the UK tertiary education sector

Facing the Future: Download FREE Global Issues and Sustainability Curriculum, Secondary school education

How to convey the essence of sustainability in a few sketched lines? Schematics of thenotion of sustainability

International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) IFAC Sustainability Framework 2.0

Leading change towards sustainability: a change-management guide for business, government and civil society A book by Bob Doppelt 2nd ed. (2010) 658.408 DOP

Leadership in Educational Facilities

Net Impact is a community of more than 30,000 changemakers

see Business Skills for a Changing World

Principles for Responsible Management Education

Psychology for a Better World: A book and a YouTube video clip about sustainability

3 main points about psychology of people and how to work towards behavioural change.

trailer for the longer version

Second Nature: Education for sustainability

Teaching Psychology for Sustainability

The Aspen Institute: Centre for Business Education for all key disciplines

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The girl who silenced the world! (United Nations environment meeting 2008)

The Natural Edge Project: An engineering project (see Curriculum and Course Notes tab)

Top Five Most Sustainable Cities

University of British Columbia list of references on sustainability

World Business Council for Sustainable Development: Business solutions for a sustainable world

World Resources Institute: BELL teaching case studies - mostly business studies and marketing

Yale: Environment 360 Opinion, Analysis, Reporting & Debate