The role of education is to be a foundation and driver for building a sustainable future. Following the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, educators must unite and commit to deliver the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development Global Action Plan and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Working closely with our international partners, we bring together resources from HE and FE institutions worldwide. The partnerships provide the opportunities to radically increase sharing between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres to enrich the understanding of what sustainability means for an educational institution.
With the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES), we bring the latest news, resources and case studies across the world.
“Universities and colleges have to take the lead on a global scale to ensure our students have the skills and knowledge to ensure a social, economic and environmentally responsible future for us all,” Iain Patton, CEO, EAUC.
The Platform for Sustainability Performance in Education joins organisations which have created sustainability assessment tools designed for universities and colleges based worldwide.
Along with our sister organisations, AASHE (USA) and ACTS (Australasia), we are dedicated to sharing the knowledge and experience of education institutions. For instance, the International Green Gown Awards are testament to this as they celebrate good practice across scales and borders to demonstrate the real potential of good sustainability practice in the sector.
Humanitarian Engineering Research Programme – Sustainable Solutions Transforming Lives The Programme is an innovative education and research programme that engages...
The SWIM Team (Supported Wage Workers In Motion) To facilitate the inclusion of people with intellectual disability and learning spectrum disorders into its everyday...
Building sustainable communities by strengthening the wellbeing of individuals and families The Orchard Hills Farm programme includes the most vulnerable community members...
Waste Watchers – Bin Monsters Come Alive A campaign designed to teach correct recycling behaviours to students in response to high contamination rates in cafeteria...
Early Years Bush Connections The first Australian programme of its kind, Early Years Bush Connections, an adaption of the Scandinavian pedagogy, was created for pre-service...
The Matter of Landscape: Sustainable design strategies for RMIT City Campus A series of complimentary project-based teaching and learning initiatives across the RMIT...
Accountants: The New Climate Change Warriors Accounting students graduate with skills to mount a business case for sustainability initiatives such as energy savings, and how...
Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future The Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future project has enhanced, optimised and improved the imaging and printing choices for...
Moving the masses – a commuter revolution The University of Wollongong (UOW) has developed and implemented a significant Sustainable Transport Strategy to shift...
Deakin University has reduced its transport carbon footprint by 1346 tonnes CO2 eq, at a cost of $856,000, with the implementation of on campus and intercampus transport methods
The UWS social engagement and leadership program (SELP) is a unique multi-disciplinary volunteer program that runs annually over 4 weeks in Greater Western Sydney
Newcastle Hair & Beauty Academy at Hunter TAFE realised that their industry was in need of a “sustainability make-over”
The green program was developed to support Monash University’s commitment to sustainability by embedding green initiatives into the Monash workplace
The University of Helsinki had a requirement for transparent recycling bins as part of a ‘waste exhibition’ taking place in the lobbies of the University buildings.
The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems within communities need to dovetail their sustainability...
Using creative approaches to free up thinking in an interdisciplinary undergraduate sustainability unit Creating Sustainable Futures, Deakin University’s first whole of...
Sprouting Seeds: growing and learning together Sprouting seeds: Growing and learning together at the Northern Sydney Institute, is about educating and inspiring the early...
The living laboratory: action-orientated pedagogy for a sustainable campus JCU’s Bachelor of Sustainability is one of only a few undergraduate degree programs in...
UTS Cleans Up! Leading the way in waste management and recycling In 2006 recycling at UTS was not working with recovery rates stuck around 25%. Against this backdrop UTS...
Peninsula Library – The Zero-Net-Carbon Challenge The Monash University peninsula library upgrade is a challenge we have undertaken to retrofit an existing university...
Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future Print Procurement for a Sustainable Future” has transformed the way the organisation prints, copies and faxes using smart...
Refrigeration and Lighting Retrofit This year WSI made further energy savings with two large retrofit projects. One being a large scale internal and external lighting...
Total Waste Management USC has introduced a new waste management process to all buildings on the Sippy Downs campus resulting in an average of 75 percent reduction in general...
Waste Innovation, from campus to community- using waste to engage & change behaviour Our engaging and expansive waste programme involved; students, staff and funders,...
Committing to Environmental Excellence Flinders university is committed to environmental excellence and the development of curricula and cross disciplinary research on...
Late Starter, Fast Runner – Collaborate to Innovate From catch up to innovation, UC may be a late starter, but has proved to be a fast runner in procuring a sustainable...
As the University comprises about 50,000 students and staff, the consumer choices we make on campus matter. When we achieved Fair Trade Accreditation in 2012, we became...
Students and staff working together to deliver a common goal: raising awareness of Fair Trade as a tangible example of sustainability in practice.
The project aims to make the Tasmanian University Union (TUU) the first 100% renewably powered student union in Australia, engage 1000 students per year through events and...
The JCU sustainability club is a highly active student group working to promote a sustainable lifestyle, connect and empower people to create change throughout JCU and the...
The student-run Tap It campaign sought to engage students and staff in refilling reusable water bottles rather than purchase single-use bottled water.
The matter of landscape links university operations, research, teaching and learning with community and industry engagement delivering stage two of the roof garden pilot project.
Growing at Griffith focuses on three innovative biodiversity projects that builds on Griffith’s commitment to maintaining environmental integrity on its campuses.
Thinking outside the rectangle: beyond the carpark for sustainable transport. In a few short years, implementation of the University of Tasmania’s sustainable transport...
The EcoCentre is a key element of Griffith University’s Griffith Science group and promotes an encouraging message that the knowledge, existing framework and resources to...
The Trickle Effect – Working flexibly with Aboriginal communities to build capability in resource efficiency. A state wide delivery of the Cert Iv Home Sustainability Assessment...
tate of the Tropics. Half of the world’s population and 67% of the world’s children under 15 years of age will be living in the Tropics by 2050, raising serious...
Youth Eco Summit – Linking and leveraging social responsibility and sustainability in GWS and beyond. The unique internationally recognised Youth Eco Summit (YES) held annually...
Give them wings and they will fly! Transforming VET Teachers into Sustainability Champions. Equipping Australian industries with employees who possess and can apply relevant...
Progressing sustainability via continuous pursuit of environmental excellence. The University of Auckland has come a long way since the early 1980s when we first started...
Doing the right thing – a holistic approach to sustainability. At Otago Polytechnic we believe in doing the right thing. Our goals are to have every graduate a sustainable...
Shaping Sustainable Cities. RMIT’s vision is to be urban in orientation and creativity, shaping sustainable cities and drawing inspiration from the challenges and...
Durack prides itself on being a leader in sustainability, and decided to embark on a project with staff and external stakeholders to develop a Sustainability Strategy.
The Green Gown Awards Australasia Winners’ summary 2014 provides a summary of the projects recognised by this year's Awards, the International Awards and the ACTS...
View the photographs taken at "Challenging Connections" Annual Conference 2015.
This presentation is from the Student Sustainability Summit 2015, in partnership with NUS and People & Planet, presented by NUS, CliMates, Leeds University Union and UK...
This presentation is from the Student Sustainability Summit 2015, in partnership with NUS and People & Planet, presented by People and Planet, Crystal Lameman and The...
This presentation is the opening Keynote on Day 2 of the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by John Robinson, The University of British...
This Exchange presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by Kedge Business School and University of Wales Trinity St...
This Exchange presentation from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by Interface, falls under the Leadership and Governance Stream
This Exchange presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by UNEP and falls under the Leadership and Governance Stream.
This presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by UNEP, Multimedia University Nairobi and Tongi University, China and...
This link will direct you to all photos from the Student Sustainability Summit 2015.
This video is a representation of the hundreds of students who came together to take action on sustainability and social justice in March 2015.
This issue of the PRI Academic Network focuses on PRI impact. The articles in this edition of the newsletter touch upon many issues that that PRI has addressed since its...
Waste sorting point image at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT).
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is pleased to release the 2014 Annual Report, which outlines the progress of the Initiative over the last year to deliver on its...
The Green Office Model is an open-source tool, freely available for everyone under a Creative Commons license. It is spreading rapidly across Europe with ten established...
Five case studies of student-led and staff-supported green offices from the Netherlands & UK, developed to inspire you to adapt the Green Office Principles to your university
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
Part of the mini case study series, "Approaches to fair trade in educational institutions in 2015".
An international report has been released by the International Council for Science which provides an expert commentary on the proposed 2015 Sustainable Development Goals
A film designed to raise awareness of the negative impacts of industrial biofuels and bioenergy on biodiversity, human rights, food sovereignty and climate change.
The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution's collateral damage.
The Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21st, 2010, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products
The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
Foundation resource for students based on the principle that all students should leave post-secondary education with at least an appreciation of the role the environment will...
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
A band of Latin American activist economists sets out to change their continent, teaming up with impoverished women to challenge accepted notions on how to eradicate poverty.
Dirt! The Movie is an excursion into the realms of soil, the number one lifegiver on Earth...It's fundamentally important ecological functions, our poor understanding of...
The Joint International Master in Rural Development (IMRD), part of the European Erasmus Mundus programme, offers the opportunity to study the international vision on rural...
This is the fourth in a series from Bill Mollison's "Global Garden", centered around urban life.
This is the third in a series from Bill Mollison's "Global Garden", centered around cool climates.
This is the second in a series from Bill Mollison's "Global Garden", centered around dry lands.
This is the first in a series from Bill Mollison's "Global Garden", centered around the Tropics.
Former Vice President Al Gore presents an eye-opening, must see documentary that cuts through myths and misconceptions to deliver the message that global warming is a real and...
‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect.
This newly released five minute video presents ten key findings from the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
This is a film based on the best selling photography book, "The Earth from the Air".
This report has emerged from University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD), which is a 3 year European Commission project funded through the Lifelong Learning Programme.
Our DIY food waste audit provides a simple step-by-step guide to measuring your food waste streams, so you can find out where food waste is coming from and put actions in place...
Fairly traded products are focused on securing the rights of workers and producers in developing countries and improving livelihoods
This is a quick guide to help you understand sustainable seafood, as well as provide you with some useful resources
Coffee is the most popular drink in the world, with over 400 billion cups being consumed every year. How can we make sure the coffee we drink is sustainable? This quick guide...
From the ground-up: a whole-systems approach to institutional change Ball State University’s Council on the Environment (COTE) represents the many Vice-Presidents,...
Jointly developed by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and the international think-tank Sustainia, this guide includes campus sustainability case and...
Assessing the global competences of students is a major challenge - and even more so, when the aim is to compare them across nations and cultures.
Net-Works enables local residents to collect discarded nets, which wreak havoc with the marine ecosystem, and sell them back into a global supply chain
We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be.
The implementation of legislation and processes in EU Member States allowing the use of operational energy use data as a route to compliance with various European Directives
Combines the latest research on climate communications with road-tested communication best practices in an easy-to-use, practically applicable guide
The UNESCO ESD Zoom newsletter which summarise the key projects, events and outcomes.
The video of the live streaming of the 2014 International Green Gown Awards which took place in Hobart, Australia at the ACTS Conference.
The Winners' Brochure for the International Green Gown Awards 2014 which brings together the finalists and winners of these Awards which are growing globally.
A video about the connection between climate change and extreme weather
A presentation by Mike Barry from the EAUC 13th Annual Conference 2009.