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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 New South Wales

Operational Energy Efficiency

Short course

A cross-disciplinary course that provides the fundamentals for assessment of operational energy efficiency in a range of systems. The course allows students to develop skills in designing energy efficient systems ...

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Global Food Waste Teaching Toolkit

Jade Herriman

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 global food waste.

The resource contains: Learning objectives, suggested ...

Rebecca Cross

Casual academic and research associate, University of Sydney

Dr Rebecca Cross is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney (USYD). She completed a PhD in 2015 at the Institute of Environmental Studies, ...

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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.