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Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Hosted by Lili-Ann Kriegler and Bronwyn Cron
Welcome to the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast, where early childhood pedagogy and sustainability education come together, positioning ECEC educators as the critical leverage point for planetary change.
Hosts Lili-Ann, author and expert in early childhood pedagogy, play, and project-based learning, thinking skills, and leadership, and Bronwyn Cron, author and expert in STEM and sustainability education, bring together decades of combined expertise. They work together to explore how educators simultaneously shape child development and environmental futures, and regularly host sustainability and education thought leaders to enrich our listeners' podcast experience.
Our Approach:
Grounded in research with 200+ Australian ECEC services, we explore sustainability holistically across five interconnected domains: environmental, social, economic, cultural, and leadership/governance. Through our Sustainability Impact Accelerator framework, we help you recognise your significance, deepen your thinking, and expand your influence, accelerating change that ripples from your service outward to children, families, communities, and ultimately transforms policy and culture.
What We Explore:
Thought-provoking, evidence-based insights connecting brain development to environmental consciousness, practical frameworks like our Sustainability Discovery Framework, and approaches to embedding the EYLF 2.0 Sustainability Principle into everyday practice. We examine play-based learning, place-connected pedagogies, project development, team engagement, courageous planning, and how to integrate sustainability into your quality improvement plans.
Who This Is For:
Early childhood educators, educational leaders, directors, pedagogical leaders, sustainability coordinators, policy makers, and anyone who recognises that supporting optimal child development during the grounding years IS the most powerful sustainability education possible.
Our Promise:
We combine intellectual rigour with practical application, honouring your professionalism whilst providing frameworks and language that validate what you already know works. We help you see that you're not doing two separate jobs—child development and sustainability are the same work viewed from different angles.
You are architects of possibility, working at the intersection where human development and planetary futures meet.
Join us as we accelerate education for sustainability, positioning ECEC educators where you belong—at the centre of the conversation about planetary futures.
Acknowledgement of Country:
We respect the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land of the Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, where I live, learn, and work.
We also respect the people and cultures from across the globe who live and work for the optimistic future of this unique island continent, Australia. May we all walk gently into the future.
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Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
What does Sustainability Actually Mean in Early Childhood Education? - Dr Diane Boyd's Three Pillars (Ep27)
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Dr Diane Boyd Explains the Three Pillars Beyond Environmental Focus
Join Lili-Ann and Bronwyn on 'For Your Ears for the Early Years' podcast for an inspiring conversation with Dr Diane Boyd, an award-winning expert in sustainability within early childhood education. Broadcasting from sunny Wirral in the UK, Diane shares her remarkable journey from classroom teacher to sustainability advocate, sparked by a pivotal encounter with Professor Julie Davis in 2015.
In this comprehensive episode, Diane explores the interconnected nature of sustainability's three pillars—environmental, social-cultural, and economic—challenging listeners to move beyond traditional environmental-only perspectives. She reveals how early childhood pioneers like Froebel, Montessori, and McMillan were sustainability advocates long before the term existed, weaving their philosophies into modern practice.
Discover Diane's groundbreaking work, including:
- The Legacy Café project brings elderly wisdom keepers into children's centres
- A Welsh school where 3-year-olds run their own businesses whilst learning about profit, loss, and community care
- Place-based learning that transforms high streets, beaches, and woodlands into rich educational environments
- Her development of SDG resources is now being adapted across multiple countries
Diane's approach emphasises children as competent questioners and change-makers, capable of understanding complex social issues from homelessness to economic sustainability. She demonstrates that sustainability education isn't an add-on, but rather the very foundation of quality early childhood practice.
This episode offers practical provocations for educators whilst examining policy differences across the UK's devolved nations. Diane's vision for the future sees sustainability and play as inseparable partners in early childhood education.
A must-listen for educators seeking to understand how young children can become voices for the planet whilst developing as confident, agentic global citizens.
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Lili-Ann Kriegler (B. A Hons, H. Dip. Ed, M.Ed.) is an award-winning author and Melbourne-based education consultant. Her books are 'The Power of Play' for educators and 'Roots and Wings' for parents. Lili-Ann’ is a leader in early childhood education (birth to years), leadership and optimising human thinking and cognition. She runs her consultancy, Kriegler-Education. She is passionate about the early childhood sector and believes in the transformational power of education.
Find out more at https://www.kriegler-education.com.
