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Charles Sturt University Earth Hour 2020

by Holly Threlfo – Port Macquarie Sustainability Advisor Like many others, Charles Sturt University has been impacted by the unprecedented events of Covid-19 in 2020. For the students living on campus this meant leaving Res and returning home...

Enviro-Friendly Beauty Products

Good beauty products tend to be quite expensive and many are full of chemicals that are bad for your skin. This is not to mention all that plastic packaging and shipping that doesn’t do the environment any good. Here are some alternative products...

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The importance of recycling (properly)

As ongoing drought, savage bushfires, dry lightning and consequential loss of life, property and air quality devastates Australia, the issue of climate change has well and truly taken centre stage. While impactful solutions have faced ongoing...

4 ways to be more environmentally friendly

While you’re at home for the holidays, you can show your family some easy ways of being environmentally friendly around the house. Land and water pollution is largely fed by the consumerist culture we live in, which has people throwing out billions...

Check out ErinEarth in Wagga

What is ErinEarth? ErinEarth is a beautiful nature escape in Wagga Wagga. Situated on Kildare Street near the train track pedestrian crossing, it has a beautiful native garden with a dam, pond and countless species of wildlife, particularly the...

5 ways to live more eco-friendly

The world has adopted a consumerist lifestyle in which we only think about ourselves and material goods. People across the world are attempting to break this social mindset by offering us eco-friendly electrical devices, promoting recycling and...

Port Macquarie’s Veggie Patch

by Holly Threlfo, Port Macquarie Sustainability Advisor It has been an exciting start to the year for the Port Macquarie Campus. With the tremendous growth of students on campus this year, there has been a push to ensure we are all undertaking...

Unearthed Hour 2019

by Megan Kaye, Student Sustainability Advisor Wagga Wagga In March, CSU’s Wagga Wagga campus switched their lights off and enjoyed a night under the stars for Unearthed Hour. Unearthed Hour, a play on words incorporating the sustainability...

It’s time to Move Out

By Sophie Kingston, Sustainability Advisor Wagga Wagga It’s that time of year again, time to pack up and… move out. At the end of session every year, Uni students around Australia pack up their dorms – pulling down that photo wall that was...

On-campus Vinnies

by Annabelle Chisholm, Sustainability Advisor – Port Macquarie CSU Green presents On-campus Vinnies! Here at our Port Macquarie Campus, we’ve recently installed a free-standing clothes rack where students can donate clothes that they might not want...

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