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...