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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New Internationalist
Type: NGO Organisation: New Internationalist
Summary: The New Internationalist is an independent monthly not-for-profit magazine that reports on action for global justice. We believe in putting people before profit, in climate justice, tax justice, sustainability, equality, social responsibility and human rights for all. We support minority groups and producers by selling their fair trade and organic products in our shop, and also like to blog and keep people in the loop via monthly email newsletters. We also have a mobile version of our site.
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NSW Threatened Species Database
Type: State Government Organisation: Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
Summary: This website contains detailed profiles for every threatened species, population and ecological community in New South Wales except those that are presumed extinct. The profiles include photos, descriptions, habitat, ecology, distribution, threats, management actions.
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Caring for Country MERI Toolkit
Type: Australian Government Organisation: Australian Government Land and Coasts
Summary: The monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI) toolkit provides project managers with tools and guidelines to assist in measuring and reporting on outcomes for their project.
This website is part of the Commonwealth Government's Caring for our Country investment program where it has been made available to be used together with the Caring for our Country MERI strategy which is based on the conceptual framework established in the NRM MERI Framework. The MERI Toolkit is useful beyond this.
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US Dept of Energy's Lose your excuse!
Type: International Agencies Organisation: Department of Energy (USA)
Summary: In 2008 a US Survey found that 85% of children aged 8-12 felt confident they could help their families to use less energy. This led the US Department of Energy to create the 'Lose Your Excuse' campaign, including this website. The site has fun features to inform children about reducing energy consumption, information for parents, a simple energy saver plan and tools for teachers to get involved with the campaign. A good example of bringing together parents, children and schools for sustainability.
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Sustainable Events Planner
Type: NGO Organisation: Sustainable Living Foundation
Summary: Whether you’re organising a music festival, launching a product or having a backyard party, it’s important to gain an understanding of the environmental and social impacts that events create and work towards more sustainable event practices.
The Sustainable Events Planner aims to assist event organisers and their visitors to make sustainability the main event.
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Pacific Edge
Type: NGO Organisation: Terra Circle
Summary: Full of sustainability and EfS guides, research papers, events, articles, book reviews, links, features, ideas and initiatives. Regularly updated with input from Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network, Permaculture International Ltd, TerraCircle, TransitionSydney and others.
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