Project Sustainability Collective Podcast
Project Sustainability Collective Podcast Hosted by Lili-Ann Kriegler and Bronwyn Cron Welcome to the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast, where early childhood pedagogy and sustainability education come together, positioning ECEC educators as the critical leverage point for planetary change. Hosts Lili-Ann, author and expert in early childhood pedagogy, play, and project-based learning, thinking skills, and leadership, and Bronwyn Cron, author and expert in STEM and sustainability education, bring together decades of combined expertise. They work together to explore how educators simultaneously shape child development and environmental futures, and regularly host sustainability and education thought leaders to enrich our listeners' podcast experience. Our Approach: Grounded in research with 200+ Australian ECEC services, we explore sustainability holistically across five interconnected domains: environmental, social, economic, cultural, and leadership/governance. Through our Sustainability Impact Accelerator framework, we help you recognise your significance, deepen your thinking, and expand your influence, accelerating change that ripples from your service outward to children, families, communities, and ultimately transforms policy and culture. What We Explore: Thought-provoking, evidence-based insights connecting brain development to environmental consciousness, practical frameworks like our Sustainability Discovery Framework, and approaches to embedding the EYLF 2.0 Sustainability Principle into everyday practice. We examine play-based learning, place-connected pedagogies, project development, team engagement, courageous planning, and how to integrate sustainability into your quality improvement plans. Who This Is For: Early childhood educators, educational leaders, directors, pedagogical leaders, sustainability coordinators, policy makers, and anyone who recognises that supporting optimal child development during the grounding years IS the most powerful sustainability education possible. Our Promise: We combine intellectual rigour with practical application, honouring your professionalism whilst providing frameworks and language that validate what you already know works. We help you see that you're not doing two separate jobs—child development and sustainability are the same work viewed from different angles. You are architects of possibility, working at the intersection where human development and planetary futures meet. Join us as we accelerate education for sustainability, positioning ECEC educators where you belong—at the centre of the conversation about planetary futures. Acknowledgement of Country: We respect the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land of the Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, where I live, learn, and work. We also respect the people and cultures from across the globe who live and work for the optimistic future of this unique island continent, Australia. May we all walk gently into the future. #ProjectSustainabilityCollective #EarlyChildhoodEducation #EducationForSustainability #ECEC #SustainabilityEducation #EarlyYears #ChildDevelopment #SystemsThinking #EarlyChildhoodLeadership #PlayBasedLearning #ProjectBasedLearning
Episodes
In this episode of the Rotary and Community Service Radio Show, Lili-Ann talks with Dr Julie Mulhauser — retired medical specialist, newly inaugurated President of the Balwyn Rotary Club, President of East Sider News, co-founder of the Friends of Belmont Park, and a volunteer with the Lighter Footprints Organisation.
Julie is one of Melbourne's eastern suburbs' most dedicated community advocates, with a ...
What does it take to fund 40 years of health research that changes lives?
In this episode of the Rotary and Community Service Radio Show, host Lili-Ann Kriegler speaks with Stephen Humphreys, Chair of Australian Rotary Health — one of Australia's largest independent non-government funders of health research in Australia.
Lili-Ann and Stephen first met at the International Rotary Golfing Fellowship in Darw...
Episode 3: The Catalyst Effect - Why Early Childhood Educators Hold the Key to Sustainable Futures
Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures
Welcome to the final episode in our series exploring how child development and sustainability are the same story viewed from different angles.
Over the past two episodes, we've examined the extraordinary neuroscience of th...
Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures
This is the second episode of three: The Extinction of Experience - Why Nature Connection Matters for Sustainable Futures
Listen to our series exploring how child development and sustainability are the same story viewed from different angles.
In the last episode, we examined the extraordinary neuroscience of the groundi...
Episode 1: The Grounding Years - Why the First 2,000 Days Matter for Child Development
Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures
Welcome to the first full episode of our new series exploring the profound connection between early childhood development and sustainability consciousness.
In our introduction, we presented the fundamental premise: child development and susta...
Series: The First 2,000 Days: Building Brain Architecture and Sustainable Futures
Welcome to the newly rebranded Project Sustainability Collective Podcast!
If you've been following For Your Ears from the Early Years, thank you for your support over the past 18 months. We're excited to share the evolution of this podcast with a new name, sharper focus, and an enriched collaboration between Lili-Ann and sustainab...
"Why This Podcast is Evolving: A Transition Episode"
After 36 episodes exploring the breadth of early childhood education, 'For Your Ears from the Early Years' is evolving into the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast.
This bridging episode explains why.
Between July 2024 and December 2025, I hosted conversations with thought leaders about brain development, creativity, leadership, pedagogical courage, ...
Rotary Community Service Radio Show - 94.1 FM 3WBC
Host: Lili-Ann Kriegler
Broadcast Date: 16 January 2026
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197/episodes/18512352
Managing Markets and Building Community: Teresa Molella's Rotary Story
When Teresa Molella spotted a simple newspaper advertisement 13 years ago, she had no idea it would transform her life and lead to one of Melbourne's most success...
FOR YOUR EARS FROM THE EARLY YEARS Episode 36:Guest: Debi Keyte-Hartland
The Pedagogy of Listening: Art, Children, Materials, and the Power of Place
For my final episode of 2025, I speak with UK-based artist educator Debi Keyte-Hartland about art, pedagogy, materials, listening, and what happens when we stop separating the arts from all other learning.
Debi's pathway into early childhood education was unconventi...
Dr Jillian Woinarski - The Rotary Club of Canterbury
94.1 FM 3WBC - The Rotary and Community Service Radio Show
Listen here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197/episodes/18262726-rotary-radio-interview-with-dr-jillian-woinarski-co-president-of-the-rotary-club-of-canterbury
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🎙️ From Obstetrician to Rotary Co-President: A Journey of Service and Impact
What changes when you go from thin...
Welcome to Part 4 of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series.
As we approach the final days of 2025, how do we look back at the sustainability progress that's been made when it doesn't always look the way we expected?
Bron and Lili-Ann explore what sustainability progress actually looks like in early childhood services. Spoiler: It doesn't look like test scores or benchmarks. Progress shows u...
Welcome to the final episode of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series.
For 12 months, we've worked with educators who are courageously reimagining what sustainability means in early childhood. In this closing episode, Bron and Lili-Ann step back to see the bigger picture of what's been achieved, not just in one service, but collectively across the sector.
What becomes possible when sustaina...
Welcome to Part 3 of our Reflect, Reconnect and Reimagine Sustainability series.
The festive season brings joy, connection and often a lot of pressure. Can celebrations be both joyful and sustainable?
As December arrives, Bron and Lili-Ann turn their attention to end-of-year celebrations and how to bring sustainability values into festive practices without losing the magic or adding to educator workload.
There's...
Episode 30: The Unlimited Child: Unlocking the Potential of 2.1 Million Children Across the Globe
Welcome to For Your Ears from the Early Years, where host Lili-Ann brings you thought-provoking conversations that enrich educational practice and strengthen connections with children, colleagues, and families. Every tenth episode celebrates global perspectives in early childhood education. Episode 10 welcomed Tha...
It's time to release Episode 6 of THE THINKING EFFECT PODCAST!
You often hear the statement that someone 'can't see the forest for the trees'. Sometimes students get so close to the details that they can't see the bigger picture. When students learn something without a sense of the bigger picture, the information is like an object floating around in space. It is what Professor Reuven Feuerstein, the la...
In this important episode of my podcast with Ortal Green THE THINKING EFFECT PODCAST I talk to Dr Shyam Barr about the role of metacognition in learning. According to Dr Shyam, metacognition is more than just thinking about thinking. It is also about the ability to regulate and control that thinking. This adds an important future-focused dimension to learning. Indeed, if students master the art of recognising...
What if the sustainability thinking you're looking for is already happening in your service—you just haven't been guided to see it?
In the first episode of a special five-part series, Reflect, Reconnect, and Reimagine Sustainability, Lili-Ann Kriegler and Bronwyn Cron from the Project Sustainability Collective share discoveries from their year-long work on embedding holistic sustainability with early chi...
"We don't have anything interesting—we're just in the suburbs."
If you've ever thought this about your outdoor space, this episode will change how you see your service's environment forever.
In Part 2 of the Reflect, Reconnect, and Reimagine Sustainability series, Bron and Lil explore why place-connected learning is the missing link in making sustainability feel real for children. Not abstract lessons abo...
Glitter. Plastic. Single-use everything.
The festive season can contradict every sustainability value you've been embedding all year. But what if celebrations could be both joyful AND sustainable?
In this mid-series conversation, Lili-Ann and Bron tackle the tension educators face during end-of-year celebrations. They explore five key areas: creativity, gifting, food, energy, and children's expression, framed b...
What happens when a dedicated, seasoned educator and consultant asks herself a simple but powerful question: "What is possible?"
Jo Haynes has worked across private, public, and non-government sectors in Australia, and her journey through early childhood education is anything but conventional. From kindergarten college to discovering the Reggio Emilia approach, Jo has consistently chosen challenge and change o...
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