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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Indigenous Concepts of Country and Sustainability
Type: State Government Organisation: The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES)
Summary: The Indigenous concept of Country provides an excellent way for students to engage with systemic thinking, indeed it embraces sustainability. It is the holistic engagement of a person with a specific physical location that is both symbolic and real. Australian Indigenous people have a deep emotional connection to Country – they care for and nurture Country; visit Country; talk to Country; sing for Country; and feel sorry for Country. Country defines identity and with identity comes obligation to oneself...
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Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy teaching module
Type: State Government Organisation: The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES)
Summary: This module provides students with the understanding, skills and capabilities to incorporate energy efficiency, energy effectiveness and renewable energy into their personal and working lives.
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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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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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Australian Association for Environmental Education - NSW Chapter website
Type: NGO Organisation: Australian Association for Environmental Education - NSW Chapter
Summary: The Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) is the professional association for environmental educators. AAEE NSW represents environmental educators from all sectors (community, formal and government educators) in discussions, debates and provides recommendations on issues and directions for a sustainable future. The AAEE NSW website provides a range of up to date events, news, resources and a members networking directory.
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Skeptical Science - Getting Skeptical about Global Warming Skepticism
Type: NGO Organisation: Skeptical Science
Summary: The goal of Skeptical Science is to explain what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming and remove the politics from the debate by concentrating solely on the science.
Skeptical Science is maintained by John Cook. He studied physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. After graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honours year. He is not a climate scientist. Consequently, the science presented on Skeptical Science is not his own but taken directly from the peer review
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UNESCO Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
Type: International Agencies Organisation: UNESCO
Summary: Overview
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO. It contains 100 hours (divided into 25 modules) of professional development for use in pre-service teacher courses as well as the in-service education of teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials.
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