Sustainability Month 2012

The first Sustainability Month

Following the establishment of a Sustainability Committee, an opportunity arose for uwsconnect to link with the University’s Office of Sustainability to jointly raise the profile of sustainability at UWS and encourage a shift towards a greener environment. This led to naming August 'Sustainability Month'.

greeningUWS was launched by Federal MP David Bradbury and Professor Geoff Scott, UWS Executive Director, Sustainability, at Connect Central, Kingswood Campus and simultaneously rolled out across all campuses. The launch highlighted an ever-increasing range of 'green' or 'sustainable' items offered within uwsconnect outlets - to date over 90 products.

Geoff and MP David at Launch

The month long event include amazing events and competitions including:

  • Recycled art competition
  • Clothing Swap and Sell
  • Recycling craft workshops
  • Sustainability themed trivia
  • Public space recycling launch
  • Free seed day give aways
  • Free fruit and give-aways
  • Launch of the UWS Community Cookbook with Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia
  • Launch of the Public Space Recycling bins

With giveaways of:

  • 5000 drink bottles
  • 1000 Cookbook recipe samples
  • 2400 pieces of free fruit
  • 1000 frisbees
  • 700 free seed pack