Environment Education Victoria in Carlton, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Environment Education Victoria

Locality: Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 448 285 311

Address: Level 2, 60 Leicester Street 3053 Carlton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.eev.vic.edu.au

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23.01.2022 For the final online event in HUMIFORM's Youth Taking Action in 2020 series, they’ll be delving into how we can live our lives in a way that respects people and planet. They’ll be talking... Fashion with @callnannalil... Tiny house living with @tinynonprofit Supporting social enterprises with @sisterworks_inc. The session aims to connect young people to their impact and empower them be the change they wish to see in the world! This event has been designed for young people aged 11- 16 and will take place on Zoom. Registrations are free but essential! Go to the link below to be part of this fantastic event https://www.humiform.org//youth-taking-action-in-2020-livi

22.01.2022 A major UN report today outlines how human damage to biodiversity is leading us into a pandemic era this article also outlines why there are still good reasons for hope. https://theconversation.com/un-report-says-up-to-850-000-an

21.01.2022 Don't forget the next session of Stories of Sustainability is happening at 4pm today! Brentwood Secondary College will be presenting the various milestones along their journey to become a four-star ResourceSmart school - it'll provide great insight if you are hoping to have your school participate in this fantastic program. Book for this free professional development webinar through the link below!... https://events.humanitix.com/stories-of-sustainability-term2

21.01.2022 We hope you've had a chance to celebrate WORLD TEACHERS' DAY today! This year like no other, we understand the incredibly important role that teachers play in our young people's lives. They have risen to the challenge of teaching in unusual circumstances with creativity and resilience (and many Zoom tutorials!). ... We celebrate our Victorian teachers especially who have an even longer and crazier ride over the last few months, and our Environmental Science and Sustainability teachers who have tried hard to keep our kids connected to the natural world during this extended time of lockdown. We're celebrating all Sustainability and Enviro Science teachers (and students!) next month at the Environment Education Awards 2020. We want you to nominate yourself, a friend, a colleague or a student that deserves special recognition for their work in sustainability and the environment over a challenging year. Nominations close Monday 9th of November, so don't miss out! Go to the link below to find out more info and get nominating! https://www.eev.vic.edu.au/eev-awards And tonight we hope ALL teachers go home and enjoy a LONG weekend of relaxing (amidst reports and exams and all the other things you need to do before Wednesday...*phew*) Tag a teacher below that you think is doing an amazing job! . . . . . #WorldTeachersDay #WTD2020 #DETVic #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EducatorOfTheYear #TeacherOfTheYear #StudentOfTheYear #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #AwardsNight #VictorianAwards #GreenCarpet #GreenTie #Leadership #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentStudents #LeadersOfTomorrow #LeadersOfToday #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

21.01.2022 'Scientists have sequenced and recorded the genomes - the genetic make-up or "code of life" - of species from almost every branch of the bird family tree.' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54904806

20.01.2022 '"It's a really good indication that not all is lost for the eastern quoll on the mainland maybe we can bring it back."' https://www.abc.net.au//newborn-quoll-joeys-to-be/12823180

20.01.2022 This Saturday, learn about the birds and wetlands of Hobsons Bay! Join local ‘natural historian’ and artist Rob Mancini in an exploration of the fascinating local, resident and migratory shorebirds and about the local habitats they frequent. Learn about Rob's art and the way these birds and places have inspired him. Suitable for all birding skill levels, with only an interest in the natural world required.... The 1.5 hour workshop will be presented via Zoom on Saturday 14th November from 10.30am - 12pm. Tickets are $20 and can be booked via the link below! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/birds-wetlands-online-workshop This workshop is proudly sponsored by the Hobsons Bay City Council. . . . . . @hobsonsbaycc @hbwetlandscentre @robmanciniart #experiencehobsonsbay #visithobsonsbay #wetlands #birdlife #birdwatcher #birder #twitcher #conservation #biodiversity #bird #westisbest #lovethewest #melbswest #melbwest #Environment #EnvironmentEducation #EEV See more

19.01.2022 Join EEV for a day of professional learning at the VCE Environmental Science Teachers Conference 2020 where we'll hear from professionals with expertise in all things soil! From the ancient nature of Australian soils to the use of microorganisms, you'll be fully immersed in this diverse topic. On the day we will hear from four experts including Associate Professor Vanessa Wong from Monash University. Associate Professor Vanessa Wong is a soil scientist in the School... of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University and Vice President of Soil Science Australia. Her research focuses on understanding how soil biogeochemical cycles are altered in natural and agricultural environments by land management activities and other processes such as sea level rise. She is passionate about teaching and communicating the importance of soil for society and why we should think more about the world beneath our feet. The morning sessions will be a mix of technical instruction and general interest and will be followed by an afternoon of workshopping the information into usable classroom content. The conference will be held on on Wednesday 16th of December, and tickets are $50 for EEV Members and $75 for Non-Members. Go to the link below to book your ticket now! https://events.humanitix.com/vce-environmental-science-teac . . . . . @soilscienceaust @monash_uni #soil #SoilHealth #SoilScience #SoilBiology #AustralianSoil #Australia #SoilScienceAustralia #EnvironmentalScience #VCEscience #VCE #VCEteachers #sustainability #Environment #EnvironmentEducation #EEV See more

17.01.2022 Don't forget that the first of the Term 4 Stories of Sustainability begins tomorrow! This free webinar focuses on the work of The Academy of Mary Immaculate. Join their Synergy Team and visual ecologist Aviva Reed as they outline their sustainability unit. Through exploration of the First Peoples’ stories, data collection, ecological thinking and artist-led hands-on experiences, this program seeks to engender a lifelong love for and care of the Yarra River. ... This is the first session back for Term 4 and is on tomorrow, Thursday 5th of November at 4.00pm AEST - link below. Register now! . . https://events.humanitix.com/stories-of-sustainability-term2 . . @academy.of.mary.immaculate #SynergyProgram #CityLearning #SustainabilityInSchools #EducationForSustainability #StoriesOfSustainability #SustainabilityStartsWithTeachers #Victoria #webinar #KidsForSustainability #SustainabilityInEducation #EnvironmentalSustainability #sustainableliving #sustainablelifestyle #sustainablefuture #sustainability #environment #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

15.01.2022 It's almost the weekend - the perfect time to be enjoying a big dose of nature within your 25km...and getting your nomination together for the Environment Education Victoria Awards! Nominations close THIS MONDAY 9th of NOVEMBER at 5pm!! ... The picture above is the winner of the EEV "Teacher of the Year" Award in 2019, Loretta Leary, and one of her students at the 5-star certified ResourceSmart School where she teaches. Loretta won the Award for her fantastic work as the Sustainability Leader at her school establishing engaging projects that were above and beyond her role. Her school this year was also recognised as the Sustainability Victoria "ResourceSmart School of the Year", a well-deserved recognition of the school community's dedication to sustainability initiatives! Nominations are open for another few days for our EEV 2020 Awards, and we'd love to celebrate as a community all your project wins over this challenging year - big or small - and the people behind them! Nominations are open across three categories (Educator of the Year / Community Educator of the Year / Student of the Year) and will cover projects completed in the 2019-2020 financial year. Let us know what your project has been - or that of a colleague, friend or student! You can win a $500 cash grant, a 12-month EEV Membership and a hamper of local products. Link below - get nominating by this Monday 5pm!! https://www.eev.vic.edu.au/eev-awards Annette Ruzicka Photography for Sustainability Victoria #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EducatorOfTheYear #TeacherOfTheYear #StudentOfTheYear #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #AwardsNight #VictorianAwards #Leadership #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentStudents #LeadersOfTomorrow #LeadersOfToday #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

14.01.2022 An EEV repost from a few years ago, just in time for Halloween! For all things ghoulish in our world, how about these funghi? 1 & 2 Stinkhorn - A mimic of death by sight and smell, Clathrus archeri ... 3 Ghoul fungus - Consumer of dead bodies, Hebeloma aminophilum 4 Zombie fungus - Caterpillar mind and body control, Cordyceps gunii 5 Unknown cordyceps, a fungus that feeds on caterpillars’ delicious braaiiiiinnnss. Swipe if you dare! Thanks to EEV friend Greg Bolidiston @longinomus for the gory pics. . . . . . #NatureCanBeSpookyToo #Halloween #Stinkhorn #GhoulFungus #Cordyceps #FungiOfInstagram #Fungus #Fungi #ZombieFungus #Environment #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

12.01.2022 "Honeybees, Indian jumping ants and pigeons are some of the species that have evolved ways of collective decision-making." https://www.theguardian.com//animal-democracy-bees-ants-pi

12.01.2022 All smiles here. Thanks Kiani for brightening our day!

11.01.2022 Congratulations to the finalists in the Environment Education Victoria Awards 2020! We received some wonderful nominations in all categories which demonstrates the resilience and creativity of our amazing sustainability educators and students over the last year! Their sustainability wins are everyone's wins. We're proud to be able to bring you the following finalists in these three categories - ... COMMUNITY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Alex Johnson BirdLife Australia Amanda Robertson Dolphin Research Institute Madelaine Willcock Nature Stewards Program STUDENT OF THE YEAR Henry Lim Brentwood Secondary College Lucy Skelton Melbourne Girls' College TEACHER OF THE YEAR Harriet Deans University of Melbourne's Early Learning Centre Jemma Dunstan Barton Primary School Peta White Deakin University Sarah Moore MacKillop College Congratulations to our finalists and please join us THIS FRIDAY to help celebrate everyone's wins together as a community! The link to book for this online Awards night is below - we look forward to seeing you there! . https://events.humanitix.com/eev-awards-2020 . . . BirdLife Australia Dolphin Research Institute Nature Stewards Brentwood Secondary College Melbourne Girls College Student Voice Network #EarlyLearningCentreUniversityofMelbourneelc #unimelbecoheroes #bartonprimaryschool Deakin University MacKillop College Werribee #zerowasteschoolsaustralia #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EducatorOfTheYear #TeacherOfTheYear #StudentOfTheYear #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #AwardsNight #VictorianAwards #GreenCarpet #GreenTie #Leadership #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentStudents #LeadersOfTomorrow #LeadersOfToday #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

11.01.2022 With one night to go before the Environment Education Victoria Awards for 2020, we'd like to thank our amazing sponsors who have supported us along the way! * OnStone prints who have generously donated three stunning awards made from reclaimed timber and stone composite, each with their own character and charm - just like our award winners! And the following sponsors who have contributed their beautiful, locally created products to our prize hampers for the night; ... * Bush Medijina * Earth Greetings * Paper Saver * Milkwood * Goodwill Wine * Joco * Biome We're very thankful to have your support given the challenging year everyone has faced and are so excited to have your products in the prize hampers! EEV would also like to thank our friends at * Chris Gray Photography * Australian Environmental Films Association for providing some of the photos and footage we've used for the night. We can't wait to see you all tomorrow!! If you haven't got your tickets yet, get to https://events.humanitix.com/eev-awards-2020 and we'll see you there! . . . . . OnStone Bush Medijina - Anindilyakwa Services Aboriginal Corporation - ASAC Earth Greetings Paper Saver NotebookMilkwood Goodwill Wine Joco Cups Biome Eco StoresChris Gray Photography The Australian Environmental Films Association #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

11.01.2022 An incredible biophilic living ark inspired by a mushroom-like coral variety, could soon be to home to an all-electric carbon neutral bunker for coral species under threat from climate change. https://www.thefifthestate.com.au//a-zero-carbon-coral-bu/

10.01.2022 "There's all these fantastical things down there that seem like figments of the imagination, but they're real and they're down there in Australian waters." https://www.abc.net.au//rare-deep-sea-bigfin-squi/12870884

10.01.2022 Some incredible images captured by scientific researchers for a lab art competition! https://www.treehugger.com/winning-images-bioart-competitio

09.01.2022 ‘Be the Change that you wish to see around you’. This famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi inspires Brentwood to improve its sustainability practices. Brentwood Secondary College is a Year 7-12 school located in Glen Waverley and has 1650 students enrolled this year. Venkat Kalva, the sustainability coordinator at Brentwood will be joined by the Green Team captains, Henry and Aanya, at EEV's next session in the free professional development series, Stories of Sustainability. T...hey'll be presenting the various milestones along Brentwood’s journey to become a four-star ResourceSmart school. Venkat has been in the role of Sustainability Coordinator at Brentwood for the past six years. Brentwood has completed the Core, Waste, Energy and Biodiversity modules of the ResourceSmart Schools program and is looking forward to achieving the five-star certification by completing the Water module soon. Join us this Thursday 12th of November at 4pm to see how they're achieving this - link below to book! . . https://events.humanitix.com/stories-of-sustainability-term2 . . Brentwood Secondary College Sustainability Victoria #RSS #ResourceSmartSchools #SustainabilityInSchools #EducationForSustainability #StoriesOfSustainability #SustainabilityStartsWithTeachers #Victoria #webinar #KidsForSustainability #SustainabilityInEducation #EnvironmentalSustainability #sustainableliving #sustainablelifestyle #sustainablefuture #sustainability #environment #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

07.01.2022 After a year that made this word an unwanted part of our daily language, here it is used in a positive way! Experts say that there has been an 'unprecedented' number of humpback whales spotted off the Tasmanian coast during migration season. https://www.abc.net.au//unprecedented-humpback-wh/12844702

07.01.2022 Caption this The amazing shot was taken in the heart of Channel Country near Innamincka. : Cloncurry Mustering Company

05.01.2022 THERE'S ONE WEEK TO GO TO GET YOUR NOMINATIONS IN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION VICTORIA AWARDS 2020!! Nominations are open across three categories and will cover projects completed in the 2019-2020 financial year: Teacher of the year (Primary / Secondary / Tertiary and Early Childhood Services) ... Community educator of the year (Environmental Education provider) Student of the year (High School / Tertiary) Your projects can be big or small! It's about celebrating the wins in environmental education and sustainability that our community have had over an extremely challenging year - much of it spent away from our natural environments. ----------------------------------- Last year our Community Educator of the year was Tracey Sidwell, who created an incursion program engaging kindergarten groups around Victoria in sustainable food production using strawbale gardening. Straw bale gardens provide a cost effective, low maintenance method to teach children and educators’ alternative ways in food production and waste management whilst meeting the framework requirements for sustainability and life cycle. Let us know what YOUR project has been - or that of a colleague, friend, or student! You can win a $500 cash grant a 12-month EEV Membership, and a range of local products Link below on how you can nominate - NOMINATIONS CLOSE MONDAY 9th OF NOVEMBER! https://www.eev.vic.edu.au/eev-awards @balegrow #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EducatorOfTheYear #TeacherOfTheYear #StudentOfTheYear #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #AwardsNight #VictorianAwards #GreenCarpet #GreenTie #Leadership #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentStudents #LeadersOfTomorrow #LeadersOfToday #EnvironmentEducation #EEV

03.01.2022 We're excited to be celebrating the Environmental Education Awards 2020 online TONIGHT!! Dr Josh Byrne, an environmental scientist and well-known host on ABC'S Gardening Australia, will be joining us as our keynote speaker with his presentation "GREENING CITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD - The Role of Gardens, Parks & Unconventional Spaces". A topical subject, given the amount of time we've had to spend in our cities this year due to lockdown! There'll be time for a quick Q...&A with Josh before we announce the winners of the Awards. We'd like to thank Josh and his team at Josh Byrne & Associates for supporting the night and the wonderful sustainability educators and students that EEV advocate for. Many thanks too, to our other guests and presenters who will be joining us for this virtual event; * Minister Lily D'Ambrosio, Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change * Mr Tim Richardson MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Schools * Emily, Senior Learning Facilitator at Royal Botanic Gardens * Emma & Lucy, Education Officers at Parks Victoria * Graeme, Education Ranger at Phillip Island Nature Parks You can still get your free tickets for the event through the link below - https://events.humanitix.com/eev-awards-2020 It's Friday!!! Sit down and put your feet up at 7pm AEST tonight and cheer on our Environmental Educators and Students of the Year! We look forward to sharing the night with you! . . . . . @joshbyrneandassociates@parksvic @royalbotanicgardensvic @phillipislandnp @lilydambrosiomp @timrichardsonmp #EnvironmentEducationVictoriaAwards #EducatorOfTheYear #TeacherOfTheYear #StudentOfTheYear #EEVA #EnvironmentAwards #ExcellenceInTeaching #Sustainability #SustainabilityAwards #AwardsNight #VictorianAwards #GreenCarpet #GreenTie #Leadership #ExcellenceInEducation #EnvironmentStudents #LeadersOfTomorrow #LeadersOfToday #EnvironmentEducation #EEV See more

02.01.2022 Future You was launched today by Minister for Industry, Science and Technology the Hon Karen Andrews MP. This new initiative of the Australia's Women in STEM Am...bassador smashes stereotypes about people working in STEM and inspires children aged 8-12 to imagine their future selves in a STEM-skilled career. http://www.womeninstem.org.au/futureyou/