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An excellent source of video material in general. 9 videos in this category.

The Future Fit Framework: An introductory guide to teaching and learning forsustainability in HE. A series of video clip form Stephen Sterling explaining the FFF

The education for sustainable development professional development videos for primary and secondary teachers as well as educational decision-makers are now online.

A good source of short videos. Extensive collection of educational programmes.

Huge collection of songs from around the world. Many mp3s and videos. Extensive collection of English nursery rhymes

"Taking the widely quoted figure that there could be an estimated 150 million people forced from their homes and land by climate change by 2050, this event brings together ideas from Heads of State, philosophers, explorers, scientists, lawyers, actors and experts in their field to discuss the potential cultural, emotional and physical impacts of forced migration, who should be responsible and what the potential options are for dealing with the impending human rights crisis."

3 videos on event website

Brighton University mini-site for their ESD resources includes materials from case studies across many subject areas, video clips, models of good practice...

"For many years, I've been interested in seeing the world differently. I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."

"Ken Webster - Head of Learning from The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (UK) introduces the concept of a circular economy. The end of the era of cheap fossil fuels and key materials, coupled with rising population and anxieties around water resources, food production and harmful wastes, demonstrates the need for rethinking our model of production and consumption, not merely patching it up. Let's re-think, re-design and build a positive future."

Stick with it amd find the sutainability in the punch lines at the end. Self organisation. I witnessed this in Zambia in the early 1970's, but never realised what was going on!

"This riveting documentary reveals how an educational dream became a bitter political battle over cultural differences. MACOS was an innovative social sciences program designed to teach American children "what it was to be human."

"YouTube science lessons Science lessons can be fun and creative as well as educational. A new campaign called Your Science showcases five exciting science experiments filmed in schools around the country to establish the nation's favourite."

"A look at the coalition government's policy on the National Curriculum, and the decision to abandon Labour's primary curriculum reforms, following the Rose Review."

"By providing film and advocacy training to partners in the global south EJF protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by empowering local communities to investigate, expose and peacefully resolve abuses. EJF campaigns internationally on the issues our grassroots partners work locally to solve including cotton production, pirate fishing, shrimp farming, pesticides, wildlife and climate refugees. "

"This area contains a range of articles, case studies and vignettes to exemplify how ICT is being used in the field. " Good source of ideas on how to use web2.0 technology.

Can we use these ideas for "Transition"?

"Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."

"In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. Divergent thinking."

If you teach Biodiversity as part of your Sustainability studies these are great images and videos of threatened species around the world. Suitable for 5 to 16 year olds, ARKive's free fun-packed teaching resources cover a range of key science and biology subjects including: adaptation, food chains, Darwin and natural selection, classification, identification, conservation and biodiversity. These teaching resources include: classroom presentations, activities and handouts, teachers' notes as well as links to ARKive species profiles and scrapbooks.