Sustainability Done Differently in
Early Childhood Education
Move beyond activities and checklists. Discover a practical, place-connected
approach to embedding sustainability in your service.
Book a free Strategy Call and get tailored guidance on how your service can move from ad-hoc activities to embedded sustainability leadership.
📥Download the Free Sustainability Decoder
Start with our EYLF Sustainability Principle Decoder to uncover what
embedded sustainability really means.
What's the Risk if You Do Nothing?
If sustainability stays as just another box to tick:
🔸Your efforts remain disconnected, surface-level and exhausting
🔸Your team misses opportunities to extend real-world, child- centred learning
🔸Sustainability gets sidelined by short-term sector pressures
🔸You fall short of what EYLF 2.0 and Exceeding Themes are really asking for
🔸Children miss the chance to see themselves as changemakers
The Project Sustainability Collective Way:
Practical. Purposeful. Place-Connected.
Sustainability in early childhood education doesn’t have to be an add-on or a guessing game. At Project Sustainability Collective, we offer a clear, practical, and place-connected approach that moves beyond themed activities and checklists. By grounding sustainability in your context—your people, your place, and your purpose—we help you embed it meaningfully across curriculum, operations, and culture.
Here’s why our approach works:
Clarity
Understand what sustainability really means in early learning
Contextual Practice
Embed sustainability in ways that are responsive to your people and place
Connection
Engage children, educators, and families in deep, meaningful learning through real-world projects
Meet Lil & Bron - Here to Walk Beside You
We know how overwhelming the embedding sustainability can feel—especially when you’re already navigating so many challenges. Staff shortages, compliance demands, and limited time.
We’ve supported hundreds of educators to move beyond environmental activities and celebrations to embed sustainability across curriculum, operations, and culture.
With decades of combined experience in early childhood education, sustainability leadership, and professional development, we meet you where you are and walk beside you all the way.
We’re not here to add more to your plate—we’re here to help you see it differently, uncover potential, and make what’s already there more meaningful.
How to Get Started
Download the Free Decoder
Unpack what “embedded sustainability” really means under the EYLF 2.0—and start recognising what’s already happening in your setting.
Book A Free Strategy Call
Get personalised insight into where your service is at, what support might be the best fit, and how we can walk alongside you.
Book a Sustainability By Design Guided Self-Assessment
Uncover your strengths and priorities, and receive a tailored roadmap that accelerates your progress toward embedded sustainability—without the guesswork.
Your Path to Confident, Impactful
Sustainability Leadership
We support you step-by-step to build clarity, grow your capacity, and lead meaningful change in your service and community.
At the Project Sustainability Collective, we know you want to lead meaningful sustainability practices in your early childhood service.
In order to do that, you need a clear, practical approach that’s aligned with your team, your setting, and your educational values.
The problem is, sustainability often feels vague or disconnected from the real pressures you're facing—making you feel uncertain and stuck.
We believe every service has the power to lead change, and every child has the right to learn in a world that models care, fairness, and action.
We understand the challenges of the ECEC sector, which is why we provide flexible, strengths-based programs,
grounded in the EYLF 2.0 and the National Quality Framework.
Here’s how we help you create lasting change:
Build your knowledge and confidence with the free Sustainability Principle Decoder
Develop your leadership capacity through our practical, place-connected Mini Course
Create impact with a tailored roadmap from the Sustainability By Design Assessment
So you can stop guessing, and start embedding sustainability with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Download the EYLF Sustainability Principle Decoder
Unpack what “embedded sustainability” really means—and how to start seeing it in your everyday practice.
You Can’t Embed What You Don’t Understand:
The EYLF 2.0 Sustainability Principle is powerful—but it’s also broad, complex, and often open to interpretation. The Decoder breaks it down into clear, actionable language so you and your team can stop second-guessing and start embedding sustainability with confidence.
The key phrases educators need to understand
Plain-language insights that clarify what embedded sustainability looks like
Examples to help you identify strengths and opportunities in your current practice
Reflection questions to spark meaningful team conversations
Whether you're just starting out or ready to go deeper, the Decoder is your first step toward clarity, alignment, and impact.
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn, and work.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people who continue to care for Country with wisdom, strength, and enduring connection.
We especially honour the children; past, present, and those of future generations, who are part of this continuing story of culture, resilience, and belonging.
At the Project Sustainability Collective, we recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the original sustainability leaders and custodians of deep ecological knowledge. We are committed to listening, learning, and walking together in ways that centre truth-telling, respect, and relationship with Country.
