Education for sustainability
Audio
Research that matters: security and sustainability
In this episode, Torrens University researchers discuss how using virtual reality (VR) to retrace the footsteps of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton can highlight the impact of global warming and have educational benefits.
Video
Towards zero carbon: students changing their world
The CRCLCL-supported ClimateClever Initiative is a low carbon, educational program underpinned by an innovative, data-driven App.
Journal article
Learning for low carbon living: the potential of mobile learning applications for built environment trades and professionals in Australia
Professionals and tradespeople do not promote low carbon building options unless they have proven solutions and confidence to implement them. Consequently, without effective education and training they continue to ‘lock in’ high carbon options. Studies of education and training in sustainable and low-carbon building practices indicate collaborative learning approaches are required to address this issue.
Report
A taste of sustainability: case studies of sustainable cafes in Australia
Sustainability and its attainment is one of the most important challenges of our time. Ever since the Brundtland Report popularised the concept of sustainable development, communities around the globe have been confronting how to balance the needs of humanity for consumption of resources with the finite limits of the environment and considerations of social equity...
Conference paper
Education for sustainable cities: the great Australian dilemma
Aiming to identify a pathway through the education milieu to social capital acquisition for transition towards sustainability in the suburbs, this paper comprises an analysis of sustainability education policies and approaches.