Why sustainability isn’t one more thing on your to-do list

As published in The Sector - 28 Nov 2025

Are you an early childhood educator or leader who wants to make a difference but feels overwhelmed by the thought of adding sustainability to your full plate? You’re not alone. The good news is that sustainability doesn’t have to mean more work.

A new book, A Changemaker’s Guidebook to a Regenerative Classroom by Dorothée Seeto and Lenka Miklos from Endless Play Studio, reveals how sustainability can be woven through your everyday practices to nurture 21st-century citizens and fill your own cup along the way.

If you find driving sustainability at your centre has been overwhelming, frustrating, or even depleting, could you be getting stuck:

• Thinking you need to do “sustainability education” with special gardening or recycling projects, for example, to teach ‘the green stuff’?

• Approaching sustainability as a silo instead of bringing education for sustainability into everything you do in your centre and every learning opportunity with children?

• Failing to get enough support from others in your team to teach sustainable ways of thinking and acting effectively?

For a more cup-filling approach to sustainability, the authors of the new guidebook suggest three important reframes are needed in early childhood education:

• Viewing sustainability as a holistic endeavour

• Shifting from silos to an integrated approach

• Taking a tailored whole-of-centre approach

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