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Effective practice in community-based Education for Sustainability (EfS) requires an understanding of the principles of adult and community education. These principles provide a base upon which you can reflect on your practical experiences in community-based EfS.


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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.

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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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Carbon Arts

Type: NGO    Organisation: Carbon Arts

Summary: Carbon Arts is a non-profit arts organisation that is working to facilitate an increased role for artists in generating awareness and action on climate change. A key aim of Carbon Arts is open conversation between the arts, economics, science, and technology, represented by the fact that CA was started by a environmental economist (Jodi Newcombe), a film maker and media producer (Oliver Clifton), a creative producer (Sue McCauley), and a visual artist and technical designer (Keith Deverell).

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Office of Environment and Heritage image library

Type: State Government    Organisation: Office of Environment and Heritage

Summary: OEH has created a public image library where you can search, view, save and order images related to the NSW environment and our national parks. Remember; to get the most out of the image library you need to register. Unregistered users are limited to searching a restricted collection of images.


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Cool Australia - Educating young Australians for a sustainable future

Type: NGO    Organisation: Cool Australia

Summary: Cool Australia’s educational program Our Cool School, brings sustainability and our environment into the classroom, providing teachers with engaging, fun and informative learning activities on a whole range of environmental topics.

Learning activities are year level specific (years 1 to 10) and linked to curriculum standards, including physical, personal and social learning. Discipline-based learning as well as interdisciplinary learning are also addressed.

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The Environment and Ethnic Communities in 2004

Type: State Government    Organisation: Office for Environment and Hertage NSW

Summary: The Environment and Ethnic Communities in 2004 contains the results of the research which included focus group discussions and a telephone survey of 805 NSW residents from eight of NSW largest ethnic communities.
This research will assist educators, communicators and policy makers across many sectors in the design and delivery of communications, strategies and programs for ethnic communities. This link includes downloadable pdfs of the report and community profile booklets for specific ethnic groups.

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Akashi - Working together on climate change

Type: International Agencies    Organisation: Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Summary: Akashi is a Cambridge Carbon Footprint project. At Cambridge Carbon Footprint, we believe that our work, helping people to make real reductions in CO2 emissions, is enriched by embracing the distinctive views of our diverse communities. The Akashi Project was set up to do just that. View this website to see the exciting program of events addressing different aspects of climate change while embracing and celebrating people of all cultures and faiths.

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Learning and Teaching Sustainability

Type: NGO    Organisation: Australian Learning and Teaching Council, University of Western Sydney and the Australian Government

Summary: Sustainability Resources for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
This site enables:
* Academic staff and members of teaching units to find effective practice and resources for teaching sustainability
* University leaders and policy makers to access resources on implementing programs in sustainability, staff development initiatives and embedding sustainability in policy
* Prospective students to promptly identify courses and programs with a focus on sustainability, from short courses to postgraduate

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Ethnic Communities Sustainable Living Project

Type: NGO, State Government    Organisation: Ethnic Communities Council NSW and the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW

Summary: The Ethnic Communities Sustainable Living Project (ECSLP) is a partnership project between the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW and the NSW Government Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water. The project aims to assist organisations to engage culturally and linguistically diverse communities in local environmental activities and education.
A team of bilingual educators deliver environmental workshops, fieldtrips and art projects in community languages including Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and

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