📣 NEW RESOURCE

Future-Ready, Planet-Friendly

Environmental Sustainability Learning Module 🌎

Today’s entrepreneurs don’t just build businesses, they shape the future. Every choice they make can impact the planet, their local communities, and the economy. By considering sustainability, students learn how to create successful products that also leave a positive mark on the world. It’s about turning passion into purpose, innovation into collective responsibility, and ideas into lasting change.

The Environmental Sustainability Learning Module is an initiative inspired by one of our long time educators, Lorraine from Landsdowne Middle School in Victoria. Students explore sustainability through different perspectives that seamlessly adapt into the PowerPlay program. These use creative tools and real-world applications that show how thoughtful decisions benefit people, the planet, and profit. This year, we have an exciting opportunity for educators to try out the new module and help students develop a lifelong mindset for innovation and responsibility. At the end of the program we will collect and integrate feedback to further improve our resources.

Watch an example of an eco-friendly project:

What Students Will Discover

  • ♻️ Sustainable Tools and Models

    Students use the 3P Model (People, Planet, Profit) and discover how business choices ripple outward—affecting communities, the environment, and long-term success.

  • 🌱 Taking Creative & Meaningful Action

    From recycling and upcycling to eco-friendly packaging and lowering carbon footprints, students learn how materials, design and processes affect the environment.

  • 💬 Engaging Activities & Discussions

    Students take part in interactive conversations and exercises that connect environmental responsibility to their own business planning and marketing.

  • ✅ Evaluating the Project Impact

    After working through the module, students complete an assessment tool where they can earn the Environmental Seal of Approval to share at the YE show.

Bringing the Module to Life

Key Takeaways for Students

  • Understand the lifecycle of materials and the impact of waste reduction.

  • See how sustainability and profitability can work hand in hand.

  • Develop creative solutions that are both eco-friendly and entrepreneurially strong.

  • Gain recognition for making environmentally responsible choices.

How to Use

  • Integrate it directly into the PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs business planning process or use as a standalone exploration of sustainability in the classroom.

  • Spark meaningful conversations about entrepreneurship and the environment at school and in the community.

👉 Help your students design businesses that don’t just succeed—they make the world better.