There is a bunch of collectives across Australia working on making their campus sustainable. Campus collectives campaign for clean energy, recycling, native trees, sustainable buildings and other campus-based enviro initiatives.

Part of the logic behind a campus sustainability campaign is that universities embody a lot of power. They physically use a lot of energy, and can be model of a sustainable built complex that inspires the rest of the community. More importantly, research into energy is carried out at campuses, at the moment often funded by coal or nuclear industry – Oh No!

We want more renewable energy, research into innovative technologies, and research into new ways of organising our communities sustainably. We try to empower students to demand that their universities switch to clean energy. Students have the right to have a part in decisions about what their university does, together we can get active and work towards a better future.

ASEN facilitates these campus sustainability campaigns by helping people around Australia to share resources, so that the many and diverse campaigns happening on campuses can share and learn form each other.