Griffith University

The Sustainable Living Challenge engages young people, teachers and their schools in exploring different approaches to living, with view to making them sustainable.

The learning process that is fostered by the Sustainable Living Challenge involves reflecting on how humans interact with and impact on natural systems, and through our decision making continue to generate these effects.

Sustainability, Climate Change, Peak-Oil, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Trading are all terms that many of us would not have heard as little as five years ago but are set to play a significant role in our children's future. As Australia and the world now prepare to respond to these challenges it is crucially important that our young adults learn how to aspire to a sustainable future.

Building on a strong history of environmental education and projects in high schools across the country, many are now seeing significant interest from students to work on sustainable living related projects. This enthusiasm is driving a growing number of Australian high schools to participate (submitting 164 projects in 2007) in the Sustainable Living Challenge, hosted by the University of New South Wales in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program.

As part of a commitment to supporting schools focused on sustainable development initiatives, Griffith University, in partnership with the Port of Brisbane Corporation and The Natural Edge Project, have provided a Queensland focus for such projects as part of the challenge. This focus on Queensland, the first state focused node of the challenge, has assisted Queensland schools to achieve significant recognition for their sustainable living projects.

The Queensland Node of the Sustainable Living Challenge is proudly supported by the Port of Brisbane Corporation, Griffith University, and is managed by The Natural Edge Project.