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UNE Branch Climate Actions
NTEU UNE Branch Climate actions
• Make UniSuper much more eco-friendly & ethical
• Support eco-friendly businesses in all union-related promotions &
interactions
• Green bans on unsustainable products in any university projects eg
rainforest timber, old growth timber
NTEU ADVOCACY
Internal
Amend NTEU policy:
• Climate change is current, not in the future, rapid transition from coal needed
• Stronger advocacy
On Campus
• Each area to have an environmental/sustainability officer
• Reduced paper use, recycled paper
• Local organic food, permaculture, café waste composting
• Better transport eg electric bikes
• Aboriginal land use agreements
• Ethical investment by universities eg in Australian Ethical Investment
• Better recycling and promotion thereofreduction of lawns, exotics, mowing and watering; replacement with natives: trees, shrubs, grasses
• all new buildings solar-passive, solar powered, solar hot water, insulated, double glazed
• universities switch to green power
• Provide water coolers for all staff and students to reduce the use of bottled water on campus
• Encourage usage of Fair Trade
Academic advocacy
• Support sustainability teaching and research esp. in social sciences eg MEA
• Reduce support for unsustainable industries: beef, coal
• Subsidise education for climate change refugees
• Challenge ³Infinite Growth² paradigm
Wider Advocacy
• Remove subsidies to big polluters
• Stop logging and woodchipping native forests
• Support for sustainable industries & renewable energy and their job
creation potential
• Opposition to nuclear power, uranium mining
• Restrict and label GM foods
• urge adoption of Melbourne Uni plan for national renewable energy system
• support international environmental regulations and monitoring
• End promotion of Shell by Questacon
• Promote nonviolence as an alternative to militarism
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Branch Contacts
Branch Office
Room 214 Transient Bdg Camperdown/DarlingtonCampus
University of Sydney
Phone: 02 9351 2827
Fax: 02 9351 7573
nteu@nteu.usyd.edu.au
http://www.nteu.org.au/sydney
Michael Thomson
Branch President
mthomson@mail.usyd.edu.au
Katherine Barnsley
Branch Organiser
kbarnsley@nteu.org.au
Shane Reside
Branch Organiser
sreside@nteu.org.au



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