Journeying Towards Sustainability: An Australian Non-Government Organisation’s Experience
| April 28, 2010The purpose of the case study is to chart an NGOs journey (Mission Australia Queensland) towards sustainability with the aim of encouraging other NGOs to begin their own journey.
The case study illustrates that becoming more sustainable is rewarding. However, it also illustrates that considerable effort is required by the organisation and that the process is [...]
Adapting sustainability accounting inventions to show local communities the change
| April 19, 2010Showing national governments change in their jurisdictions toward, or away from, a sustainable development path dominates invention and innovation in sustainability accounting. Helping sub-national governments do the same is rarely considered by accounting scholars.
When a nation’s per capita wealth is not declining over time is accepted as by many as a reflecting a national government’s [...]
Social Learning through evaluation of catchment demonstration programs for salinity management
| April 14, 2010This project shows how a social learning approach can be incorporated into evaluating public environmental programs. A social learning approach is particularly suited to complex environmental challenges which are inherently difficult to understand, predict, and manage, thus complicating the evaluation process. The project focuses on an Australian case study of dryland salinity management where there [...]
...moreSLAH Sustainable Living At Home
| March 27, 2010SLAH was a behaviour change program for City of Port Philip residents, continuously improved over 9 rounds from 2001 to late 2008.
The format of SLAH was a series of 5 program workshops run over 3 months, attracting between 60 and 80 households participating in each round. The workshops focussed on practical actions around energy, water, [...]
Castlemaine 500
| January 25, 2010In 2006, the Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance (CVGA) secured Victorian Government support to fund a behaviour change program that would test – “by engaging a significant proportion of a township in household energy reduction – whether major savings could be achieved and measured at the regional level.” The objective was to get 500 households to [...]
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