In recent years industry has received increasing attention regarding its impact on the environment. It continues to face mounting pressure from society and the government to improve environmental performance. A survey and interviews of Australian organizations revealed that methods to improve this performance have tended to focus on operations and processes with less attention being directed to employees, the corporate culture and management strategies. Environmental training was in its infancy and lacked essential features that acted to prevent this tool from reaching its full potential. Culture and management strategies can be modified to promote sustainable practices by developing an environmental training programme that can harness the organizations' and employees' ability to act in an environmentally responsible manner. Through developing beyond a session only approach to support environmental initiatives through open communication, employee involvement, incentives and teams an environmental learning organization can develop. The opinions and perceptions of environmental training gained from those interviewed revealed support and interest for environmental training with sound ideas of important characteristics, yet this was often not translated into action.