Inspirational projects publicly accessible at new web home

Press release from Centre for Sustainable Practice

10 October, 2012

Inspirational projects publicly accessible at new web home

Wanaka New Zealand: A new website promoting future-focused projects created by sustainable practitioners has been launched by the Centre for Sustainable Practice at Otago Polytechnic: www.sustainable-practice.org

The website is designed to create a global community of practice around sustainable development and to encourage people to collaborate on existing or new projects. The first projects loaded have been created by participants in the Centre’s graduate programmes in Sustainable Practice.

The Centre’s Director, Steve Henry, says the work of the graduate programme participants is relevant and useful, and should be available to others.

“The projects are real rather than theoretical, so they’re useful for others and can be built upon,” he explains. “We are looking to develop this site so anyone in the world can log in and upload a project or contribute to the ones already listed.”

www.sustainable-practice.org was built by social media expert, James Samuel, with this kind of collaboration in mind.

“There’s a real need for transformative change across all aspects of our society and people are responding to that need,” says Mr Henry. “Our participants tend to be from business, local government or professional sectors, and most study part-time to apply the principles of sustainable practice to their particular situation. This makes for fascinating projects that have relevance to all sorts of people.”

The Centre for Sustainable Practice was established by Otago Polytechnic in 2008 to facilitate transformational change in students, businesses, professions and organisations. Over the past two years, its graduate programmes have grown exponentially with numbers expected to double again for 2013.

Current projects hosted at www.sustainable-practice.org include the Hawea Flat Food Forest, Trash Footwear, and Bushland Park, a lodge on the Coromandel Peninsula.
Further information:
Alexa Forbes
Centre for Sustainable Practice, alexa.forbes@op.ac.nz, 021 296 4255
About the Centre for Sustainable Practice:
Established in 2008, to promote future focused action, Otago Polytechnic’s Centre for Sustainable Practice (CSP) is a centre of research offering project-based qualifications and business and industry consultancy. CSP collaborates throughout New Zealand with business, industry, local government and government agencies. Programmes range from business offerings such as Adding Sustainable Value (ASV) and Sustainable Practice 360, to Level 5 Certificates and Level 7 graduate programmes.
For more about courses and programmes, visit: www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/Schools-departments/centre-for-sustainable-practice
To see projects and student work, visit: www.sustainable-practice.org

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