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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
Why Place Matters: Discovering Sustainability in Your Own Backyard (Ep 32)
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
"We don't have anything interesting—we're just in the suburbs."
If you've ever thought this about your outdoor space, this episode will change how you see your service's environment forever.
In Part 2 of the Reflect, Reconnect, and Reimagine Sustainability series, Bron and Lil explore why place-connected learning is the missing link in making sustainability feel real for children. Not abstract lessons about faraway rainforests, but tangible connections to the trees, birds, puddles, and weather patterns right outside your door.
Drawing on their work with educators across diverse settings: urban, suburban, and regional, they share the Five Foundation Questions that help any service become its own researchers. You'll hear how services transformed "just a carpark" and "ordinary gardens" into rich learning environments where children develop genuine care and stewardship.
This isn't about having access to wilderness. It's about learning to see what's already there.
Are you keen to ground sustainability in what's right outside your door?
Download the free Place Connection Guide with practical strategies to help children become researchers of their unique environment: 👉 https://projectsustainabilitycollective.com.au/place-connection-guide
For more insights and resources, visit our blog: 👉 https://projectsustainabilitycollective.com.au/blogs
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I 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.
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.
