The Royal Academy of Engineering has been running a Visiting Professors' Scheme since 1998 to help introduce sustainable development issues into the engineering curriculum. Practicing engineers are seconded to work with academics to help develop curriculum material and teaching strategies. Additionally, RAE published Engineering for Sustainable Development: Guiding Principles in 2005.
Sustainable Aviation
Sustainable Aviation is a strategy initiative bringing together the UK’s leading airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers and air navigation service providers. Signatories to the strategy are committed to delivering significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, nitrogen oxide emissions and aircraft noise over the next 15 years. Sustainable Aviation have published A Strategy Towards Sustainable Development of UK Aviation, as well as a 2006 Sustainable Aviation Progress Report.
Professional Practice for Sustainable Development
PP4SD is a project dedicated to promoting sustainable practice among professionals through developing and disseminating continuing professional development material and events that encourage cross-professional dialogue. It has also established a strategic link with the Sustainability Alliance, which is a lobbying body representing professional institutions on issues of sustainability. PP4SD is a partnership project managed by the Environment Agency, Environmental Sciences Society for the Environment and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Engineering Council UK
The Engineering Council (UK) introduced UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence, which requires that engineering degree courses develop competencies in students that will allow them to undertake engineering activities in a way that contributes to sustainable development.
CIFAL Finhorn - Ecovillage Designer Education
Ecovillage Designer Education is a holistic curriculum for the design of sustainable communities by CIFAL Findhorn and an official contribution to the UN Decade on ESD. The Ecovillage Design Curriculum introduced in 2005 has been tested through 7 pilot programmes in 2006. The EDE curriculum, developed by an international consortium of sustainability educators, associated with the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), offers an integrated grassroots strategy for the creation of sustainable communities and bioregions. In October 2006 the first month-long Training of Trainers took place at the Findhorn Ecovillage, in which participants learnt how to teach practical tools for the design of sustainable human settlements.
Sustainability - Integrated Guidelines for Management (SIGMA)
Project SIGMA was launched in 1999 with the support of the UK Department of Trade and Industry and aims to provide clear, practical advice to organisations to help them make a meaningful contribution to sustainable development by enabling them to effectively meet challenges posed by social, environmental and economic dilemmas, threats and opportunities and become architects of a sustainable future. It is a partnership between the British Standards Institution, Forum for the Future, and AccountAbility.
CIFAL Finhorn - Ecovillage Designer Education
