ACTS is delighted to announce the winners and highly commended for the 2015 Green Gown Awards Australasia - including the inaugural Built Environment and Leadership categories – and the ACTS Awards of Excellence.
Sustainability leaders from across Australia and New Zealand were on the edge of their seats, as the winners were announced live from the spectacular waterfront venue – The Pier – in Geelong, Victoria on 23 October 2015. 43 finalists from 22 institutions were holding their breath as ACTS president, Leanne Denby, and Vice President of Resources , Corey Peterson, announced 16 winners representing 11 institutions from across Australasia.
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The 2015 Green Gown Awards Winners’ Brochure which explores the journeys all these institutions have taken.
Six years in and the Green Gown Awards Australasia continue to grow! This year we had a record number of 43 finalists, representing 22 institutions, all vying for the most...
Lucy has just completed her second year of university, during this time she has demonstrated a great passion and commitment to sustainability in the JCU Community and Cairns...
Colin has collaboratively led the curriculum development processes at La Trobe to help embed sustainability across all undergraduate courses an Australian first
Professor Grant Guilford is the current Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. Since taking the role in February 2014 he has already made a significant impact in...
C15Hack was Australia’s biggest green innovation hackathon. 41 students worked in small teams to tackle 7 different challenges from across the campus and Melbourne city-wide
Greening RMIT is a student-run project dedicated to promoting sustainable food and gardening on campus. Through hands-on education and community building events, we hope to...
JCU’s innovative Green Bike Fleet program gives new love to abandoned or unwanted bikes. The program has restored over 260 bikes, which are then sold to students.
Creating Sustainable Futures commenced as an interdisciplinary unit on climate change, it has evolved into a process for, as well as product of, Education for Sustainability (EfS)
The key output from this project is a set of inspiring yet workable standards for tertiary sustainability education that articulate what constitutes essential learning for...
USC is a Water Refill Campus that provides bottle refill stations, fountains and water refill vending machines that dispense chilled and filtered water in place of selling...
The Furniture and Equipment Re-use Service offers a range of workstations, storage solutions, and other items for sale at a low cost, presenting a sustainable and economic...
The Sustainability Program has grown since 2006 to include initiatives across leadership and governance, facilities and operations, learning teaching and research, and...
La Trobe University ICT Department donated 40 sets of computer peripherals (monitors, keyboards and mice) to help Whittlesea Council roll out a project to build computers and...
Since 2007 Victoria University of Wellington has been reducing its carbon emissions. Stationary energy and transport were identified as target areas
University of Tasmania IMAS Building: more than just a building The IMAS building was constructed to provide a contemporary new home for the Institute for Marine and...
The GreenSkills Training Centre is an award-winning catalyst for change in the built environment. A training facility for students studying sustainability courses, it is the...
Australia’s fastest growing University of the last decade is now one of Australia’s most sustainable Universities