ARIES in the Media
ARIES project results in funding for climate change adaptation
professional education
View the Minister's announcement made on 3 October 2007
The Australian Government Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, recently announced a $2 million grants program to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into education and training for professionals. The grants of up to $150,000 each will be available to professional associations and training organizations. This funding commitment, targeted at the improvement of education for climate change adaptation, is a direct result of the recent ARIES project that worked with professional institutions in the built-environment sector to identify key issues and opportunities for embedding education for climate change adaptation into accredited professional tertiary courses and professional development programs. A report outlining the findings, outcomes and recommendations of this project will soon be available to download on the ARIES website, while more information on the grants program is available on the Australian Greenhouse Office website at www.greenhouse.gov.au/impacts/about.html.
For further information contact Dr Anna Lyth, ARIES Project Director anna.lyth@mq.edu.au.
Four Shades of Green, Campus Review, 10 July 2007
'Macquarie University's Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) completed a National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia. Key recommendations include a national council for sustainability in higher education, a process of rating institutional progress towards sustainability, and an accreditation scheme for staff who "educate for and not just about sustainability".'
Renewed funding for Education for Sustainability research, Press Release, 27 November 2006 (PDF)
'Australia's first national institute devoted to the research of Education for Sustainability, the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) based at Macquarie University, has received a further $1.7 million funding for the next two years... '
Sustainability on the agenda, Australian Financial Review, 20 November 2006 (PDF)
'The film An Inconvenient Truth and the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change have recently helped turn the tide of popular opinion on global warming, but some companies are years ahead of the pack in responding to a range of social and environmental sustainability issues...'
'Learning to Change' by Christine Williams, ECOS Magazine, Apr-May 2006 (PDF)
'It's early days in the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, but change is already underway to have sustainability high on the agenda across a wide range of industry, business and education endeavours by the decade's end in 2014....'
'Business Schools are out of touch' by Brendan O'Keefe, News Limited 'The Australian', 24 May 2006 (PDF)
'Business schools are out of touch with reality and operate in a social and environmental vacuum when it comes to educating students about sustainable develop, a leading scholar in the field says. University of Hong Kong corporate environmental governance program director Richard Welford says business schools should be the leaders but are instead lagging behind the private sector...'
'A lasting legacy', Australian Landcare, March 2006 (PDF)
'A research program has been established through the Natural Heritage Trust to change the behaviour of organisations and individuals to create a more sustainable society...'
'Australia dragging the chain on sustainability', by Brendan O'Keefe, News Limited 'The Australian', 8 February 2006 (PDF)
'The teaching of sustainability in Australian business schools needs to be infused into curriculums to broaden its take-up for the good of the environment, society and the economy, a leading proponent of the discipline says....'
'Is Australia on the right path towards Sustainability?', Press Release, 25 January 2006 (PDF)
'A National review of environmental education sustainability practices in Australia has provided a clear vision of the task ahead, as Australia moves to respond to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005 – 2014)...'
'Demand not yet sustainable' by Laura Kelly, Australian Financial Review, 10 October 2005 (PDF)
'Academics and businesses are grappling with how best to develop environmentally aware executives, writes Laura Kelly...'
'MBAs lack in sustainability' by Bernard Lane, News Limited 'The Australian', 29 June 2005 (PDF)
'NOT one Australian business school qualified as 'leading edge' in an international survey of education about sustainable development...'
ARIES IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED
19th August, 2004
Senator Ian Campbell, Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage launches the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) which is based at Macquarie University.
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INITIAL FUNDING BOOST TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
23rd December, 2003
The Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Dr David Kemp, approved a $500,000 funding boost for environmental education research to be conducted by Macquarie University.
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