Education Blog
Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year 2018
The Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year 2018, Lorna Pettifer In 2018 Lorna Pettifer Manager of Education and Training at CERES was awarded the inaugural Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year [...]
Motives – Change – Inspiration – CERES Environmental Education Course
In September to October of this year, I undertook the environmental education course hosted at CERES. My main motive for doing the course was to see what other options I had for environmental work, [...]
Mini Case Study: Growing Plants Can Change Your Life
Gregory Lorenzutti Gregory Lorenzutti is a Brazilian-Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia, working between the spaces of photography, dance and urban farming. Photography, dance... and farming? Strange bedfellows you might think, but [...]
Smart Urban Forests at CERES
A new Swinburne University-led pilot program introduced at CERES Community Environment Park is using water-sensor technology to better manage urban forests. Swinburne University Water Resources Engineering senior lecturer, Dr Scott Rayburg, and his team [...]
No time not to use the regular plates
On Friday I went with my sons and several thousand other Victorian children to the steps of the Treasury Museum for the Students Strike For Climate Change. From a respectful (non-embarrassing) distance it was [...]
Exploring Permaculture in Timor Leste June 2018
by Jane Burns, CERES Education Outreach Area Manager I recently had the opportunity to facilitate a trip to Timor-Leste (East Timor) with CERES Global Education to learn about how this country [...]