This guide highlights some of the common pitfalls involved in communicating sustainability development and ideas that are proven to work. It demonstrates that communicating sustainable development is no longer a niche activity. This guide showcases national and local authorities who are leading the way in communicating their sustainable development policy effectively.
Fundamental principles
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Communicating Sustainability: How to produce effective public campaigns
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United Nations Environmental Program
Education and Sustainability: Responding to the Global Challenge
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IUCN – The World Conservation Union
This book presents stories told by some of the many people around the world who are searching and struggling for ways of shaping their educational programmes or activities to the challenges of sustainable development.
Enabling change
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Les Robinson
Toolbox
This website provides a number of activity sheets, interactive exercises and articles on how to bring about change in organisations and communities towards sustainability.
Guidelines and recommendations for reorienting teacher education to address sustainability
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UNESCO
This document was submitted to UNESCO to be used in building the foundation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD). It poses guidelines for reorienting education to address sustainability. In addition, this document makes recommendations in a number of areas that are crucial to the success of reorienting teacher education to address sustainability.
Learning for a Sustainable Future
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Learning for a Sustainable Future
Networks, Toolbox
LFS is a Canadian non-profit organisation whose mandate is to work with educators from across Canada to integrate the concepts and principles of sustainable development into the curricula at all grade levels.
Pathways towards sustainability through higher education
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IJSHE
The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability.
Prosperity without growth
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Sustainable Development Commission
This report examines the relationship between prosperity and growth, and questions if the ever-rising incomes for the already-rich is an appropriate goal for the world constrained by ecological limits. It also challenges the assumption of continued economic expansion and asks: is it possible to achieve prosperity without growth?
Sustainability in the curriculum project
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Macquarie University
Fundamental principles
This booklet is designed to encourage discourse within the academic community of Macquarie University, with regard to embedding sustainability in the curriculum. It is designed to re-invigorate the discussion and consideration of the ways by which educating for sustainability can become an integral guiding principle in the design and delivery of all academic courses offered at the University.
The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit
Case study, Reference material, Syllabus, Toolbox
The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for beginning the process of combining education and sustainability.The ESD Toolkit will help schools and communities develop a process for creating locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. This Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. Ideally, local educational systems can reorient existing curriculums to reinforce local sustainability go als. An easy-to-use manual including tools for managing change, creating goals and introducing fundamentals of sustainability.