A Stroll Down Sustainability Street
Fri 20th February 09 | 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Think tent
hosted by | Vox Bandicoot
The Sustainability Street® Approach is an innovative community development program, developed by Vox Bandicoot, which educates and engages community members in sustainable living practices and initiatives. Since 2001, over 200 local Sustainability Street Villages have emerged throughout Australia. Sustainability Street shifts from being something a community does to becoming something a community is. This program will be supervised by the Sustainability Street Institute Inc in the near future.
Frank Fitzgerald-Ryan
Frank Fitzgerald-Ryan, Principal and Founder of Vox Bandicoot Pty Ltd, is an internationally regarded practitioner in environmental education. Frank has worked in the field for over 30 years and his outstanding contribution has been recognised through being granted fellowship of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and as a finalist in the 2003 United Nations Australian Environment Awards and the Eureka Award. Frank is also a current Watermark Australia Champion, Banksia Award and Victorian Environmental Education Prize winner. He has been published numerous times including Green Hits, Clockwork, (available free on this site), the Macmillan Environmental Encyclopaedia, The Environment Book (foreword by Peter Garret), etc, etc, - through to the Sustainability Street Manual - which is, in effect, a neat summary of the amazing Vox Bandicoot pedagogy, as it has developed over the last twenty years or so.
The Sustainability Street Institute has been incorporated as the body for all matters to do with the development and promulgation of the Sustainability Street Approach (SSA). The SSA was devised by Vox Bandicoot, which will itself now focus on the very wide range of other sustainability education projects in its stable.