In answer to question 2

ANUgreen has many strageies that they use to acheive their environmental goals, the ones below are some of the more lateral thinking ones.

1. Participation of many external elements within the university including the residential halls and colleges at ANU. For example, cafes and restaurants, as well as halls and colleges, have been provided with a seperate waste bin for organic matter to go into the composting system (refer to earlier post). Intercollege rivalry can also be very fierce with many sporting and other competitions between them. Reducing their output becomes a matter of a competition of who can reduce their use of resources the most. Other colleges also lead the way in things such as solar power usage. One of the residential buildings, Bruce Hall, has installed on its roof a solar electricity producing prototype developed by the university itself. Each hall or college has a green representatives who liase regularly with ANUgreen.


2. Increasing public awareness within the university community. There are clearly labelled bins, for garbage and for recycling, all around the campus with sbig backboards detailing what goes into each. There is also a "toilet door campaign" where posters are posted on the back of toilet doors for users to peruse at their leisure. To tell you the truth, they totally work. On of the ones that I found really changed my view was one that said that the amount of paper printed at ANU in a year is equal to the height of 41 Telstra Towers if the pages were stacked one on top of the other. The awareness of that fact lead to me arranging with my tutor to hand my tute questions in electronically.
   N.B. Telstra Tower is a major Canberran landmark, it is a telecommunications tower which is clearly visible from ANU, as well as most of Canberra. If you go to the ANUgreen website, http://www.anu.edu.au/anugreen/, and look at the picture on the home page you can see it in the background in the top left corner.


3. Community events and participation. There is an organic garden in the grounds of ANU which is open to everyone to go work at, it increases participation on a grassroots level and increases awareness and horticultural skills. One of the major events is on this Saturday and that's Earth Hour celebrations, the photo I referred to above was taken at Earth Hour last year. ANUgreen makes it a large event and this year has organised entertainment and food as well. It has marketed the day as a fun family event.