SORTED Guide to Sustainability in Further Education

Introduction to the Guide

This provides college and university institutions with specific guidance on embedding sustainability using a whole-institution approach, with inspiring examples of good practice from others are already doing so.

The Guide offers a starting point and signposts the route to more information if wishing to delve deeper. It can also be used by those already on the sustainability journey, as a means to review your direction and destination.

Supporting the guide is the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES).

The Guide is structured around the categories outlined in the Sustainability Leadership Scorecard:

• Introduction to the topic area
• Organisational value of embedding sustainability in this area
• Wider benefits of embedding sustainability in this area
• Getting started
• Useful resources (links to resource, brief description of resource & use)
• Great examples (case studies – provided by EAUC).

Before reading each section, take a moment to pause and reflect on the following questions:

• What are we already doing in this area?
• If there were no limits, no “if’s” and “but’s”, what would I like to see happening in my organisation relating to this area in 5 years?

Then, reading the Guide in full, consider how to you'd implement your ideas - what would it take? Who else has done similarly, or made some progress here already?