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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.

Featured

Swinburne University of Technology

Vocational Graduate Certificate in Education & Training for Sustainability

Postgraduate, Other

Education for Sustainability (EfS) is now recognised internationally as the educational and pedagogical platform for teaching in sustainability. EfS is shorthand for learning-based strategies to stimulate change towards sustainability. While ...

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ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future

Tom Worthington

Australian National University

ICT Sustainability is about how to assess, and reduce, the carbon footprint and materials used with computers and telecommunications. These are the notes for an award winning course on strategies ...

Colin Higgins

Senior Lecturer, Deakin Graduate School of Business , Deakin University

Colin Higgins is a senior lecturer in the Deakin Graduate School of Business at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. His research uses both institutional and discourse theories to explore how ...

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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.