The Sustainability Institute is a non-profit trust, founded in 1999. An international living and learning centre focussing on studies and experience in ecology, community and spirit, we work in partnership with the School of Public Management and Planning, University of Stellenbosch in the following areas of  education (Masters and PhD degrees in Sustainable Development Planning and Sustainable Agriculture), Early Childhood Development, Community Development Practice and Management, project facilitation to establish Sustainable Neighbourhood Developments in various localities,policy research in the sustainable development sector. The Institute is located in the Lynedoch EcoVillage, a place where we have provided development facilitation to create a space for sustainable living and learning.

Our new year is off to a very exciting start with an intake of 47 new BPhil students, 30 MPhil students and 10 Phd’s (in our partnership with SU, Stellenbosch Doctoral Programme in Transdisciplinarity studies). We have a renovated classroom to accommodate us all, and our students are already working hard in their morning community work...

 

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