Educating for sustainability

This paper describes the EcoRecycle Waste Wise Schools Program from Victoria, Australia which, through detailed planning and ongoing market research and evaluation, is contributing to widespread and sustained cultural change towards living more sustainably.

Educating For Sustainability

Pat Armstrong Gould League, Australia

Brian Sharpley Briter Solutions, Australia

Steve Malcolm Waste Wise Education, EcoRecycle Victoria, Australia

Eric Bottomley CERES Community Environment Park, Australia

Scott MacLean Commercial, Research International, Australia

INTRODUCTION

Environmentally sustainable behaviour and how to best promote it has been widely debated for some time. The most difficult challenges include:

  • how to promote lasting attitudes and values and self-directed, continually improving behaviour for sustainability (i.e. effective action as distinct from simply awareness and factual knowledge);

  • how to influence adult as well as student attitudes...

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