Sustainability Education

For government

There are many things you can do to reduce your impact on Australia's environment.

What you can do

• Ask First: A guide to respecting Indigenous heritage places and values - 2002
• Australian Natural Heritage Charter: for the conservation of places of natural heritage significance - 2002
  • Protecting Natural Heritage - using the Australian Natural Heritage Charter - 2003
• Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts
• Certification of Environmental Professionals - 2004
• Be Smart With Seed - 2004
• Celebrate Environmental Events: see our Environmental Events Calendar
• Cities for Climate Protection - find out what councils are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  
• Energy Efficiency in Government Operations
• ESD design guide for Australian Government Buildings
• Green Vehicle Guide
• Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletters
• Keep the Sea Plastic Free - Bin It
• Oil Recycling: I'm an environmental activist. because I recycle my used engine oil - 2004
• Protecting Local Heritage Places: a guide for communities - 2000
  • Protecting Local Heritage Places: Information and Resource Kit (CD) - 2001, available from our Community Information Unit
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
• 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
• Successful Tourism at Heritage Places A guide for tourism operators, heritage managers and communities - 2001
• Wetlands Australia - Newsletters

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

• Australian Natural Resources Atlas
• Australia's national database of pollutant emissions: the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
• CCP Australia Council Profiles - find out what councils are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  
• 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 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