Logan and Albert Conservation Association
The Living in 2030 Environmental Curriculum challenges students to examine the state of our planet in the Year 2030 if we continue with a ‘business as usual' scenario, and take no action to halt global warming. This program has been designed and developed by Global Green Plan.
The Living in 2030 Environmental Curriculum takes a ‘learning by doing' approach to environmental education. Increasingly student driven, the Living in 2030 activities and projects are designed to encourage students to come up with real solutions to real problems.
The Living in 2030 Environmental Curriculum fosters initiative, responsibility, leadership and teamwork. Students who participate in the Curriculum experience a sense of achievement and empowerment at their ability to make a difference in the face of increasingly frightening, and overwhelming, predictions about our planet. Living in 2030 students also report a heightened awareness and understanding of their community, as the Curriculum encourages interaction between the school, households and the wider community.
As well as learning about the environment, Living in 2030 students come away with valuable skills in the areas of communication (in particular, the internet and website construction), data management, critical evaluation, risk analysis and information technology.
The Living in 2030 Environmental Curriculum is designed for middle school classes (Years 7-10). It also provides extension opportunities for gifted or talented students, and classes that choose to take their 2030 experience further.
The Living in 2030 Environmental Curriculum is currently being taught at Williamstown High School, and is available for implementation by other interested schools. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you or your school would like more information about the Living in 2030 Curriculum.
Affordability versus Sustainability in the Built Environment is a PODCAST from Griffith University Business School [14 April 2009]
What role does transport play in creating affordable and sustainable built environments? What are the wider costs of current transport options? And how can car sharing and personal transport increase the affordability and sustainability of housing, commercial developments and precincts?
Find out the challenges of built environments in this context with our first podcast from the 2009 "Sustainability in Business Series".
This podcast is approximately 1.5 hours long and can be listened to or saved here.