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
People, Purpose and Progress: Stephen Humphreys on Leading Australian Rotary Health (Ep 4)
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What does it take to fund 40 years of health research that changes lives?
In this episode of the Rotary and Community Service Radio Show, host Lili-Ann Kriegler speaks with Stephen Humphreys, Chair of Australian Rotary Health — one of Australia's largest independent non-government funders of health research in Australia.
Lili-Ann and Stephen first met at the International Rotary Golfing Fellowship in Darwin, where Stephen's address at the prize giving was so compelling that an invitation to the radio show followed immediately. It was a good instinct.
Stephen takes us back to the beginning — to 1981, when Rotary clubs across Australia rallied behind a cause costing hundreds of young lives each year, and to the research that followed, which produced one of the most dramatic public health outcomes this country has seen. From those origins, he traces the journey of Australian Rotary Health through four decades of evolving focus, culminating in the bold decision in 2000 to make mental health the organisation's primary area of investment.
The statistics he shares are striking. The prevalence of mental health challenges among young Australians — and how early those challenges can begin — makes a powerful case for why sustained, independent research in this space is not optional. It is essential.
But this conversation goes well beyond research. Stephen walks us through the full breadth of what Australian Rotary Health funds: PhD scholarships in general and mental health research, a long-running Indigenous Health Scholarship Programme that has produced over 300 graduates since 2003, and rural medical and nursing scholarships designed to draw more health professionals into the communities that need them most. He is candid about the funding pressures the organisation currently faces, particularly following a change in Australian Government policy affecting the Indigenous programme, and clear about what continued support from Rotarians and Rotary clubs means in practical terms.
There is also a lovely conversation about grandchildren, golf, and why community connection is often where the most lasting change begins.
Warm, honest and wide-ranging — this is Rotary at its best.
🎙️ Hosted by Lili-Ann Kriegler on 94.1FM 3WBC — The Voice of the Inner East, Melbourne.
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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.
