Preschool Environmental Education. NSW Preschools. The Sustainable Planet Project: Creating cultural change at Campus ... The Sustainable Planet Project: Creating cultural change at Campus Kindergarten December 2002 saw the United National General Assembly officially endorse the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014), an initiative emphasising the importance of education in achieving sustainable ways of living. To contribute to this important international program, Campus Kindergarten, a community kindergarten, preschool and long day care centre, collaborated with researchers from the School of Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to research and report on their Sustainable Planet Project.
An account of this study has just been published in the Handbook of Sustainability Research, designed to stimulate further research activity for the decade. This article gives a project snapshot. {mosimage} The Sustainable Planet Project originated in 1997, the outcome of a staff team-building exercise to encourage home–work linkages. At times, there was high energy. Teacher.