Resources taken from an Education for Sustainability Workshop

In May of this year I attended a workshop held at the Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University. The workshop, entitled Education for Sustainability, was run by Sandra Nichols and involved a two hour session looking at the concept of Sustainability and our personal perceptions of Sustainability. I have attached resources taken from this research that can be used when conducting Education for Sustainable Development.
This first resource is a list of practices an individual can take to achieve a sustainable lifestyle.

This second resource is of two pictures. We were required to give our thoughts of each picture. The picture depicting the ship, we were required to state what sustainability issues we could see in this picture. Responses were mainly in regards to the process of shipment being an unsustainable form of transporting goods. The reasons for this response ranged from the potential that the ship could be carrying oil, with oil being a natural resource that is at present depleting and with the possibility of the ship causing an oil spill. The use of fuel to transport goods was also mentioned, as well as the possible damage to the ocean floor due to anchoring, disturbance to marine biodiversity and the possibility of pollution from the waste of those on board.
The second picture depicting the blurred image of a car traveling into a deserted area where there is no fuel, we were required to state what we thought was the message behind the image. Personally, I stated that I believed the message was that as a society we a traveling fast into the future without stopping to have a look at the potential consequences of our actions. The blur symbolises this lack of reflection as well as our lack of a vision for the future. The desolate landscape reveals that the future is lacking in resources and we are traveling into this future with one resource that will eventually run out. This is seen in the image of the sign post.