SUSTAINABILITY
Harry Sulikowski, Charlene Phua, Victoria McKenzie, Otto Mudigdo, Nick Symons and Ian Robertson
Getting our hands dirty for a greener 2022 This year we had a renewed focus on making the College more eco-friendly and sustainable. Looking after the environment is an important value at UC and we couldn’t wait to get our hands dirty. With over 20 students recruited to the sustainability committee, we had lots of ideas and the manpower to execute them. We kicked off the semester with Earth Hour on 26 March. The whole college got around it and people turned off their lights for the duration of the event, using candles and torches instead. It was awesome to see the community come together and reduce their power usage for an hour. On 6 April we organised our first Garden Day for the year, where we planted various herbs and vegetables, such as cauliflower, coriander and eggplant. We can’t wait to harvest these in the foreseeable future and use them in our everyday meals. During our gardening session with Ian and Ardi, we were also educated about composting and how it is managed by the kitchen staff (don’t forget to chuck your veggie and fruit scraps in the compost bin!) It’s crucial to reduce our food waste as much as possible by only grabbing small portions of food, but when you do have leftovers, compost what you can. Finally, this semester we also had meetings with the ICAC Sustainability Committee to discuss initiatives to improve the collective college environmental footprint. Stay tuned for more information! This has been an awesome semester thus far, so thank you to the UC community for getting on board with our events and initiatives. I look forward to a productive semester 2 and introducing more ideas to the College – we are hoping a quiz night, clothes swap and more recycling facilities will all be on the cards. Nick Symons Sustainability Representative 2nd Year Geospatial Science Student RMIT
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