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.
- Education for Sustainability - understanding sustainability
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
- Education for Sustainability
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:
- Sustainabel Building Alliance
- Living Cities
- Founded in 1991, Living Cities is an innovative philanthropic collaborative of 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions. Our members are not simply funders. They participate at the senior management level on the Living Cities Board of Directors and contribute the time of 80+ expert staff toward crafting and implementing our agenda, which is focused on improving the lives of low-income people and the urban areas in which they live. Historically, challenges faced by cities have been addressed using a "squeaky wheel" approach—moving from one critical issue to another but never addressing the whole. Today there is a general recognition that we need to treat our cities' problems comprehensively. We must take an integrative approach, simultaneously strengthening neighborhood institutions from the bottom up and reengineering, from the top down, the public systems that fail to create adequate opportunities. [?]
- UNEP SBCI sustainable buildings and climate initiative
- Transition Towns Nederland
- Transition Towns zijn lokale gemeenschappen (grote en kleine steden, dorpen, wijken, eilanden) die zelf aan de slag gaan om hun manier van wonen, werken en leven minder olie-afhankelijk te maken en meer duurzaam. Piekolie en klimaatverandering zijn de belangrijkste drijfveren om in actie te komen voor verandering van onderop. Transition Towns werken aan oplossingen en laten zien hoe je die zelf en in je gemeenschap organiseert. Het Transition Towns-concept doet een beroep op de eigen inzichten, wijsheid, creativiteit en ervaringen van gewone mensen. [?]
- Zero Carbon Britain 2030
- zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society. [?]
- "A Good Food Manifesto for America" by Will Allen " Mediacompost Blog ...
- For years I have argued that our food system is broken, and I have tried to teach what I believe must be done to fix it. This year, and last, we have begun seeing the unfortunate results of systemic breakdown. We have seen it in higher prices for those who can less afford to pay, in lines at local food pantries, churches and missions, and in the anxious eyes of people who have suddenly become unemployed. We have seen it, too, in nationwide outbreaks of food-borne illness in products as unlikely as spinach and peanuts. ... the current economy is not alone to blame. This situation has been spinning toward this day for decades. And while many of my acquaintances tend to point the finger at the big agro-chemical conglomerates as villains, the fault really is with all of us who casually, willingly, even happily surrendered our rights to safe, wholesome, affordable and plentiful food in exchange for over-processed and pre-packaged convenience. [?]
- The Great American Apparel Diet
- Shoppers on a ‘Diet’ Tame the Urge to Buy - NYTimes.com
- This self-imposed exercise in frugality was prompted by a Web challenge called Six Items or Less (sixitemsorless.com). The premise was to go an entire month wearing only six items already found in your closet (not counting shoes, underwear or accessories). Nearly 100 people around the country, and in faraway places like Dubai and Bangalore, India, were also taking part in the regimen, with motives including a way to trim back on spending, an outright rejection of fashion, and a concern that the mass production and global transportation of increasingly cheap clothing was damaging the environment. [?]
- Retrofitted house shows how to save energy, money at home - City of Fremantle
- What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
- OECD-Studie: Deutschland geizt bei Bildungsausgaben , Knowing-Doing-Gap
- Nur die Türkei, die Slowakei, Spanien und Irland lassen sich im Vergleich der OECD-Staaten Bildung weniger kosten als Deutschland...[damit] hat Deutschland 2006 lediglich einen Anteil von 4,8 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes erreicht...ist damit von ihrem Zehn-Prozent-Ziel noch weit entfernt. Die OECD hat ausgerechnet, dass Männer, die direkt nach der Schule beginnen zu studieren, mit einem Einkommensbonus von etwa 150.000 Euro rechnen können. Das nutzt dem Einzelnen ebenso wie der Volkswirtschaft... Darüber hinaus seien Menschen mit höheren Bildungsabschlüssen politisch aktiver, gesünder und vertrauensvoller. Die Rendite ist also nicht nur finanzieller Natur, sondern auch sozialer. [?]
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- Mr. Ellie Pooh-Elephant Dung Paper Store
- Hello all. I hope you found my site entertaining as well as educational. It is not every day that we get to go half way round the world to collect poo for paper making. I just wanted to say that all of these products are 100% handcrafted, 100% recycled, 75% dung but most of all, 100% fun. All of us, including Mr. Ellie Pooh, Maximus and the wild elephants of Sri Lanka thank you for your support. [?]
- Going Green - Environmental Issues and Global Warming News - Green Living Tips
- Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge
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