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Design, delivery and evaluation - Communication

Effective communication skills are essential for all EfS activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to encourage dialogue, and listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

This page features items from the resources area of the Hub that will help you to develop in this area.

Effective communication skills are essential for all EfS activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to encourage dialogue, and listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

This page features items from the resources area of the Hub that will help you to develop in this area.

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Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Molino Stewart Pty Ltd

Helping schools, communities and businesses to work towards a more sustainable future through learning.

Contact: Neil Dufty

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Phone: (02) 9354 0300

Fax: (02) 9893 9806

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enviroed4all

Our aim is to provide services to schools and the community in the Wimmera and further afield, that enable people to better know, appreciate, communicate about and care for their local environment, as well as understand its setting within bigger environmental scales and have a good basis for adapting to change in the future.

Contact: Jeanie Clark

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Phone: 0353941178

Fax: 0353941578

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Publications

Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Precious Plants and Animals

Type: Guide

Author: Cara MacLeod, Melissa Sellen

Summary: Woollahra Council is pleased to announce the release of Precious Plants and Animals – a six-part, syllabus-based teaching resource developed to support stage 2 and 3 teachers in combining visual arts with sustainability education.

Published: 2012

Published by: Woollahra Municipal Council

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Design for Sustainability Tool Type: Guide Author: Sue Plumb Summary: A simple tool to assist in the analysis and/or development of sustainable products. Published: 2010 Published by: Sue Plumb
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Events

Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce print and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Community Engagement Training Program

Type of event: Training Course

Region: All of Australia

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09 Aug 2011

Voc Graduate Certificate in Education & Training for Sustainability

Type of event: Training Course

Region: All of Australia

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11 Oct 2011

Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS

Type of event: Training Course

Region: All of Australia, Rest of the world

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Digital media

Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Solitaire Townsend - The Sizzle

Type: Film Organisation: http://www.hubsustainability.co.uk

Summary: Solitaire Townsend of Futerra talking about the need to sell the sizzle in sustainability marketing at the launch of the Hub Sustainability week in London. (low level language warning)

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Communication To Inspire Sustainability - John Marshall Roberts

Type: Film Organisation: EcoSpeakers.com

Summary: In this video, Roberts discusses innovative communication techniques and how they can be used to support the leadership we need for change on critical sustainability issues. He defines sustainability and discusses how to connect with the audience to shift thinking and action.

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Funding and awards

Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Effective communication skills are essential for all Education for Sustainability (EfS) activities. There is a need to be able to inspire people, to spark conversation and encourage dialogue, and to listen to the needs of your audience in order to communicate effectively for sustainability. Being able to write and produce written and multimedia materials are also important communication skills.

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Climate Access: Sharing What Works

Type: International Agencies Organisation:

Summary: Climate Access is an online network for those engaging the public in the transformation to low-carbon, resilient communities.

Gaia Education

Type: International Agencies, NGO Organisation: Gaia Education

Summary: Gaia Education promotes a holistic approach to education for sustainable development by developing curricula for sustainable community design. While drawing upon best practices within ecovillages and sustainable communities around the world, Gaia Education works in partnership with universities, ecovillages, government and non-government agencies and the United Nations.

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Gaia Education Design for Sustainability

Type: International Agencies, NGO Organisation: Gaia Education

Summary: The virtual course Gaia Education Design for Sustainability, GEDS, is offered by Gaia Education in collaboration with the Campus for Peace of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC.

This link will take you straight into taster pages of the GEDS course, where you can access a variety of information across the social, ecological, economic and worldview dimensions of sustainability.

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