If you want to feel more knowledgeable before offering advice to others, there’s a range of ways to skill up. Australia needs more home energy assessors as the government ramps up the Home Energy rating assessment scheme. Powering Skills is recrafting the curriculum ready for a growth of careers across the energy industry. The CER Roadmap is trying to understand the changing landscape of energy information. Here at Energy Together, we are advocating that the introductory part of every course is offered free so that energy champions and volunteers can upskill before deciding if certification is warranted.
That is the context but here are some practical resources that we’ve found. Feel free to share yours:
- Net Zero Energy Builder - free learning resources Net Zero Energy Builder - Courses
- EcoMaster Training Academy | EcoMaster A mix of free and modestly paid training courses
- Resources — Light House Architecture & Science Jenny Edward’s resources can be found here and Fix-it Chicks videos are worth a watch
- Community skills - Newcastle City Council received UN accreditation for their course - you can hear about that in our webinar with Lexi Foreman or read the Empowering Climate Champions Guidebook
- https://research.qut.edu.au/social-marketing-research-group/wp-content/uploads/sites/331/2021/02/Supporting-CALD-Australians-to-be-empowered-energy-consumers-Toolkit-of-Recommendations-FINAL-1.pdf
- Central Victorian Green House Alliance energy literacy toolkit 2 minute videos: Energy Literacy
- US version of Energy 101 2 minute videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLACD8E92715335CB2 with their take on teaching energy literacy