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Sustainability
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This page seeks to list courses and resources relating to sustainability topics and issues. It is possible that this collection may eventually form into a comprehensive course it its own right, covering many aspects of sustainability. People doing this course would have the aim to be effective in devising and implementing innovative new practices for a more sustainable ways of living, working and learning.
Suggested courses and topics
If you know of an existing course, or set of recognised learning objectives that we might use to develop a course, please add them below.
Africa University Course
Design and production
Sustainable business and professional practice
- Starting a business - A course based on the development of a small business plan that meets triple bottom lines of social, ecological and economic sustainability.
- Understanding Education for Sustainability - A course designed to help people understand
Assess systems, resources and practices for social, ecological and economic sustainability
I just made that up! Can't find an existing unit or other that might be useful in formulating a learning objective that we can use for the basic 3 hour intro.
Deliver information, activities and events
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare and present information, activities and events to different customer groups. As such, the unit focuses on the need to use effective interpretation and communication techniques to ensure customer enjoyment and participation. The unit goes beyond the delivery of a pre-scripted commentary and requires significant creative input. It shares some outcomes with unit THTFTG06B - Prepare and present tour commentaries or activities, in the Tourism Training Package. In a museums and library context, education will often be a key focus of activities. Skills for the development of activities are found in the unit CULM506B - Plan and develop activities, events or programs
Support individuals in resource management change processes
This competency standard covers the process of providing support for a person or business to change their management of resources within the context of the program. It requires the ability to identify change processes, conceptualise impact of changes, implement support techniques, and review support outcomes. Supporting resource management change processes requires a knowledge of relevant rural business practices and best practice, local natural resource management issues, community lifestyle and practices, relevant approaches to different cultures, change management theory and practices, action learning approaches and networks of assistance.
Build capacity to promote health
This unit addresses the process of building capacity to promote health among individuals, groups, communities, organisations and coalitions. It focuses on the ability to develop infrastructure, enhance sustainability and foster problem solving capabilities at an individual, team or organisation level.
Create innovation and change through extension
This unit covers extension work at a level meriting international recognition where sustained exceptional performance allows a major contribution to be made towards improved productivity and sustainability in one or more industries. It includes designing extension initiatives, preparing for innovation and change management, creating innovation and change, and monitoring and evaluating the adoption of innovation and change. In practice, creating innovation and change through extension overlaps with other generalist or specialist work activities such as influencing ethical practice, influencing strategic policy, undertaking strategic risk management, leading change management etc.
Lead and influence change
This unit covers organisational leadership in change management through influencing and shaping an organisational culture that is receptive to and embraces the opportunities from change. This requires flexible organisational structures and processes in place to support clients and staff to maximise the strategic advantages of a change for the organisation. The unit includes influencing organisational culture, anticipating change and providing strategic leadership in change management. In practice, leading change occurs in the context of other strategic activities such as providing strategic direction, influencing diversity, providing leadership in human resources management, etc. The unit is one of 6 Australian units of competency in the Working in Government and Management Key Areas that deal with change. Related units of competency are: · PSPGOV205B Participate in workplace change · PSPGOV306B Implement change · PSPGOV405B Provide input to change processes · PSPGOV514A Facilitate change · PSPMNGT604B Manage change
Build partnerships to improve incident response capacity
This unit covers the building of partnerships to improve the organisation's capabilities to respond to incidents. In a typical scenario the person would establish, as part of the organisation's strategic preparedness, mutual aid provisions within inter company relationships so that assistance may be available as needed in a crisis. The person would typically be a member of the crisis management team and would initiate, formalise and manage joint efforts with other organisations to improve incident response capacity.
Educational Resources
If you find educational resources that may be useful for any of the courses or learning objectives above, please add them below.
Resources within Wikieducator
- Sustainability Sample Schedule
- Sustainability Presentation
- Sustainability Handout
- Sustainability Exercises
- Sustainability Trainers
- Sustainability/Classroom contracts
Resources outside Wikieducator
If you find any reusable and open educational resources that you think would be useful for this development, please tag them to del.icio.us with the tagword sustainability. The latest 20 resources saved to that tag are displayed through RSS below:
- Dr. Albert Bartlett's "Laws of Sustainability" | Energy Bulletin
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- The Greenest Dollar
- Farming Solutions
- SAP Mediabook
- Solar Aid
- Native American culture sowed seeds of its own collapse : Nature News
- Beresford-Jones says that when the Nazca cut down the trees they destroyed the root system that had been anchoring the landscape. "When the El Niño came it cut into the floodplain because it was no longer supported by woodland. That caused erosion and made the irrigation system useless," he explains. "Storms like this should have just replenished the water table and wouldn't have hurt them, but [the Nazca] exposed their own land." [?]
- For a Better World | TckTckTck
- Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
- Welcome. Come on in. My name is Jay Shafer and since 1997 I have been living in houses smaller than some people?s closets. I call the first of my little hand built houses Tumbleweed. My decision to inhabit just 89 square feet arose from some concerns I had about the impact a larger house would have on the environment, and because I do not want to maintain a lot of unused or unusable space. My houses have met all of my domestic needs without demanding much in return. The simple, slower lifestyle my homes have afforded is a luxury for which I am continually grateful. [?]
- USGBC Nebraska Flatwater Chapter - News/Announcements
- USGBC: U.S. Green Building Council
- Chapters
- Prix Pictet: Home
- Greenpeace | Pacific trash vortex showing drift of ocean pollution.
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- glamorizing re-use and reinvention of used/heirloom furniture [?]
