Welcome to Learning and Teaching Sustainability

Sharing sustainability education

Mission

 

This site represents a community of Australian tertiary educators that is supported by the Australian Government. We aim to provide information on sustainabilitycourses in tertiary institutions in Australia and to share innovative sustainability teaching materials. Contact us for more information or register to contribute to the community.

 

 

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Swinburne University of Technology

Vocational Graduate Certificate in Sustainability

Postgraduate, Other

Course description

The Vocational Graduate Certificate in Sustainability was developed to respond to a strong industry demand for staff with skills and knowledge in the field of sustainability. Knowledge and ...

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Carbon Wicked Problem

Melissa Edwards

University of Technology, Sydney

The aim of this activity is to challenge students to engage with a contemporary complex problem. Framed as a 'wicked' problem according to the criteria of Rittel and Webber (1973 ...

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Chris Riedy

Associate Professor, University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Chris Riedy is a researcher, consultant and writer on sustainability and social change. Chris has particular expertise in climate change response, community engagement, environmental communication and sociocultural change processes. ...

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  • profile your own work and count the downloads - Paul Brown's materials have been downloaded over 6000 times!
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  • SUSTAINed - Join our network of tertiary sustainability education practitioners. Click here for the information, interest groups, resources and a Living Handbook of ideas for embedding sustainability in tertiary institutions.

Key Issue

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Food

The focus of the Food page is on food waste reduction. New teaching toolkits from the Love Food Hate Waste project are now available. Suitable for use across multiple disciplines, the three toolkits cover global, commercial and household food waste.

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New Report: Energy productivity skills and training pathway

Tamsin Angus-Leppan

The Energy Productivity Skills and Training Pathway project report has been published by the Department of the Environment and Energy. This study examined the range of essential skills, knowledge and experience required to provide energy efficiency and energy productivity services, and mechanisms for boosting the level and availability of these competencies in the marketplace.   More »