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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 sustainability courses 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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University of Queensland

Strategies for Business Sustainability and Innovation

Postgraduate, On-campus

This course examines the innovation strategies that business introduce to deal with issues associated with sustainability and climate change. The course looks at the emergence of new clean technologies - their ...

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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 ...

Paul Ehrlich

Adjunct Professor, School of the Environment and Co-Founder, Sustainability Central, University of Technology, Sydney

Paul R. Ehrlich is the Adjunct Professor, School of the Environment, Co-Founder, Sustainability Central at UTS, the Bing Professor for Populations Studies at Stanford University and President of the University’s ...

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Key Issue

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.