Students should be empowered to work towards preferred sustainable futures Including topics such as: What can we all do in the home to protect and restore our Catchments? - Backyards for Wildlife. http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au/backyardwildlife/ - Conserving Adelaide’s Biodiversity: A Planned   Approach (SA Urban Forest Biodiversity Program,   2000) http://www.urbanforest.on.net/ - Recycle all garden wastes. http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/publications/html/downtoearth/ - Do not plant species which are declared weed species   for your area, or species which have the potential to   become environmental weeds. http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au/backyardwildlife/eco_weeds.html - Do not collect fire wood from bushland areas. http://www.ea.gov.au/education/publications/act/ http://www.ea.gov.au/land/firewood/index.html http://www.ea.gov.au/education/activities/firewood/index.html http://nccnsw.org.au/member/cbn/projects/EducationCentre/ HI_Fire.html - Only exercise your dog, go horse or bike riding in areas   designated for these purposes. - Take care when using herbicides and fertilizers near   bushland areas or watercourses. http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/wildlife/savebsh5.htm http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au/backyardwildlife/eco_pests.html - Provide nest boxes for native birds, bats and possums   in your garden (but watch out for feral species using   them). http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/extinctions/prevent.htm http://www.floraforfauna.com.au/downloads/ nest_boxes_for_native_birds.pdf - Include local native tree, shrub and under-storey   species in your garden to attract native birds and   insects. http://www.env.qld.gov.au/environment/environment/ conservation/LfW_note_6_oldtrees.pdf http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au/backyardwildlife/eco_creating.html - Retain big, old eucalypts with hollows in your garden   and encourage others to do likewise. http://www.nefa.org.au/stump/stump_leaflet.pdf - Join ‘Trees for Life’ and become one of their plant   growers. http://www.treesforlife.org.au/