Welcome to Learning and Teaching Sustainability

Sharing sustainability education

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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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University of Western Sydney

Environmental Horticulture

Other, On-campus

This major enables an understanding of the processes required in interpreting a landscape design, from assessment and installation to long term maintenance.

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Food Waste as a Household Issue Teaching Toolkit

Jenni Downes

University of Technology, Sydney

This teaching resource contains all that is required for the development of a tutorial/workshop or several tutorials/workshops focusing on household food waste.

The resource contains: Learning objectives, suggested ...

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Alison Lugg

Lecturer (secondary teacher education), La Trobe University

Alison lectures in teacher education in the Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary). As a teacher educator she has worked with students at three universities mainly in the fields of: outdoor ...

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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 »