StudentForce for Sustainability

They provide volunteering and work opportunities to boost the employability of young people, whilst encouraging sustainability amongst the employers they work with.

Groundwork

They work towards sustainable communities, and offer volunteering opportunities for young people.

Sustainable Development Education Panel

This Government Panel ran for 5 years, from 1998 to2003. The panel looked at Schools, Work and the Professions, Lifelong Learning, and Developing a Template for ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) sector guides. The outputs of the panel's work can be accessed from this site.

Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future

UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) training for teachers

Sustainable Schools area of Teachernet

A good example of embedding sustainable development into schools

Sustainable Development Education Panel Key Concepts

More information on the SDEP seven key concepts

The Earth Charter

The Earth Charter website provides some excellent discussion material to underpin the values aspect of sustainable development

PP4SD

PP4SD (Professional Practice for Sustainable Development) has developed a one-day introductory course in sustainable development for professionals

ESD Toolkit

The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is a large resource for individuals and organisations from both the education and community sectors. The resource addresses the alliance of school systems and communities working together to reach local sustainability goals.

Supporting Sustainable Development through Educational Resources: A Voluntary Code of Practice

A Sustainable Development Education Panel resource

The EOLSS (Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems)

This body of knowledge is an integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopaedias, developped by UNESCO. It attempts to forge pathways between disciplines in order to show their interdependence and helps foster the trans-disciplinary aspects of the relationship between nature and human society. It deals in detail with interdisciplinary subjects, but it is also disciplinary as each major core subject is covered in great depth, by world experts.

Sustainable Education: Revisioning Learning and Change

Purchase this briefing by  Stephen Sterling
Published by Green Books on behalf of The Schumacher Society (2001)

LSN Education

Useful resources which include case studies for good practice and partnership working can be found in the following documents available from this website

International Institute for Sustainable Development

International Institute for Sustainable Development's interactive ‘campus’ toolkit introduces some of the basic concepts of sustainable development and ways these concepts are put into practice. A section on indicators and measurement shows how to track progress towards sustainability and will be useful for monitoring purposes.

The Genesis Project

The Genesis Project at Somerset College of Arts & Technology's website also contains some examples of professional development courses.

Higher Education Academy Sustainability Page

Although this is Higher Education, there is a lot that will also be relevant to FE

 

Examples of learning within businesses:

Co-operative Bank

Ethical policies and sustainable development reporting

Interface

An international carpet design and manufacturing company, is at the leading edge of industrial sustainability