| Eric Bottomley |
 Eric Bottomley taught geography, economics and environmental science in schools for 20 years, and was coordinator of CERES Education for 13 years before taking on the role of of Team Leader- Sustainability Projects for the last 6 years. He has concurrently been a sessional lecturer and tutor at the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash, and has twice worked on secondment at the University of PNG.
Eric has written a number of books on Development and Global Warming and designed much of the CERES Educational program and the Australian Sustainable Schools Program. Eric also spent 5 years establishing the Urban Water Conservation Demonstration and Research Facility at CERES, later hosting the Victorian Round Table on Sustainability Education through CERES. Currently Eric spends all his time managing the CERES role in implementing Resource Smart/ AuSSI schools across Victoria, and in consulting with community run sustainability projects around Australia. QUALIFICATIONS: -B.A. in Geography, Hull University UK -M.Env.Sc., Monash University -Cert. Env. Auditing, Chisholm -Approved Cert. of Teacher Training, Melbourne TTC ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Over 20 years of teaching and coordinating in sec. schools..geography, env.sc., economics, history. - 7 years of sessional lecturing and tutoring at the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash 1991-1998. - Teacher in Env. Ed. as part of Community Development Workers Course, Wantirna TAFE, 1992 and 1993. - Visiting lecturer in Env.Sc. at University of Papua New Guinea, 1997 and 1998. - Catholic Schools Rep on the Victorian Institute of Secondary Education Geography Subject Committee…3 years on this innovating group in 1980’s. - Victorian Environmental Educator of the Year Award 2002. - Co-developer of the Sustainable Schools Program in Victoria 2000-20006. - Recipient on behalf of CERES of: … Banksia Award for Env. Ed….1996 …Eureka Award for Sustainability Education…2005 …Savewater Community Award…2005 …Clean Air Society Award…2005 …Premier’s Sustainability Award (Community) 2007 ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS COORDINATED: A large number of environmental projects financed by State and Federal Governments with sustainability education messages: -$2 million water conservation project at CERES -$3 million of demonstration projects on Aboriginal, African, Global Development at CERES -$0.1 million on Sustainability, Waste, Greenhouse and Futures Trails at CERES -$2 million Sustainable Schools projects serving Victoria PUBLICATIONS: Books Authored/co-authored: • CERES Community Environment Centre (1996, ISBN: 095869110X) • Women in Development: Folktales and Fortitude (1996, ISBN: 0 646 2819205) • Greenhouse Activities, Primary 1 (1999, ISBN: 09586911 1 8) • Greenhouse Activities, Secondary 2 (2000, ISBN: 0 9856911 2 6) Evaluation Report – Project in India - Auroville TDEF Project (European Community Contract no: B7-6200/TF/2001/0483 FRAMEWORK FOR FINAL EVALUATION A Final Evaluation of the Restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) of the Coromandel Coast written by Eric Bottomley for the Auroville Community -Summary document for the Roundtable on Sustainability Education in Victoria – Papers • Many papers written for presentation at conferences and for subject association journals • Sustainability Education-Learning to Change…2005-edited version of the key points from the RoundTable process |