Sustainability Education

For industry and small business

There are many things you can do to reduce your impact on Australia's environment. Here are some Australian Government initiatives that can assist you.

What you can do

• Australian Natural Heritage Charter: for the conservation of places of natural heritage significance - 2002
• Be Smart With Seed - 2004
• Celebrate Environmental Events: see our Environmental Events Calendar
• Corporate Sustainability
• Educating for a Sustainable Future: case studies of environmentally sustainable practices - This resource provides practical examples of how environmentally sustainable practices can be successfully embraced by schools, business, industry and local government.
• Farmers and landholders 
• Keep the Sea Plastic Free - Bin It
• Steps to sustainable tourism: Planning a sustainable future for tourism, heritage and the environment - a tool to use when managing and developing regions, places and tourism products
• Tips for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at work
• Water resource publications

Transport

• Fuel consumption
• Green Vehicle Guide
• Oil Recycling: I'm an environmental activist because I recycle my used engine oil - 2004
• Practical steps to reduce smog

Databases, maps, satellite imagery, state of the environment ...

• Australian Natural Resources Atlas
• Australia's national database of pollutant emissions: the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
• Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts
• Energy Efficiency Resources Online
• Environmental Reporting Tool - find out what's in your backyard, town or region: threatened species, important wetlands, heritage sites, pollutant emissions and more
• Information for decisions - databases and interactive tools
• National Chemical Information Gateway
• Satellite Imagery Data Viewer - a 30-year visual record of landscape and vegetation change in Australia
• State of the Environment Australia - state of the environment (SoE) reporting and access to 1996, 2001 and 2006 national SoE reports.

What the Australian Government is doing about sustainability education

• Australian Government Strategy for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)
• Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
• Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES)
• National Action Plan for Environmental Education - the Australian Government's policy, launched July 2000
• National Environmental Education Council (NEEC)
• National Environmental Education Network (NEEN)

More information

• Sustainability Education Publications, kits, resources, fact sheets, web sites ...
• Publications lists - lists of all publications available from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
• Contact the Community Information Unit on 1800 803 772 or email ciu@environment.gov.au