Green Campus Week 2025
Expanding on Green Campus Day
Since 2017, Green Campus Day has been an annual opportunity for ACTS members to showcase the sustainable design, infrastructure, and innovation happening across tertiary campuses during World Green Building Week. In previous years, this has included a mix of virtual tours, case studies, and in-person events exploring sustainable buildings, campus features, and operational initiatives.
In 2025 Green Campus Week will run from 8 – 12 September.
Growing Together: Nourishing Campus, Community, and Climate in collaboration with HASTE
In 2025, ACTS is partnering with HASTE (Healthy Active Sustainable Tertiary Environments) to expand Green Campus Day into a full Green Campus Week, running from 8–12 September, with the theme “Growing Together: Nourishing Campus, Community, and Climate”
Whilst still held in World Green Building Week, this year’s focus shifts from the built environment to the vital connection between campus sustainability and student wellbeing, with a spotlight on food systems and nutrition.
Together, we’re inviting institutions to share and celebrate programs that support:
- Edible gardens and permaculture
- Student food-growing initiatives
- Kitchen facilities for student use
- Nutrition education and skills development
- Veggie box or food distribution programs
- Campus responses to food insecurity
Thank you to our members who have contributed to an event for Green Campus Week. Please see the schedule below.
On campus
(AU) RMIT Ferment-a-thon
Melbourne, VIC
Date: Thursday 11 September
Time: 10am – 1pm AEST (RMIT Brunswick Campus), 12pm – 6pm AEST (RMIT City Campus)
Institution: RMIT University
Meeting point: RMIT City Campus, Building 78 | RMIT Brunswick Campus, Building 516, Level 2, room 1Come and learn about Wild, Raw, Living Ferments: Hear from experts how to make it delicious for a cultured gut.
Ferment the rest with the best of us in this fermentation masterclass led by gut legends Sharon Flynn and Long Prawn.SCOBYs and living cultures, ready to eat – Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Pickles, Water Kefir, Milk Kefir, Jun, Kombucha, Koji, Preserves.
Come for an hour or come for a day and help us lay down many ferments for the ‘Shared Futures Festival’. Take home your very own pet ferment.
Register here: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-life/events/2025/sep/sustainability-ferment-a-thon
(AU) UNSW Sustainability Campus Tour
Sydney, NSW
Date: Tuesday 9 September
Time: 11am – 12pm AEST
Institution: University of NSW
Meeting point: Library LawnGuided by the Environmental Sustainability Team, the sustainable campus tour is your gateway to discovering the many initiatives, services, and tips that can help you live sustainably on campus.
Starting and finishing at the Library Lawn, the tour will showcase key sustainability features like renewable electricity, end-of-trip facilities, native plants, and even a handy wash station to encourage reusable habits on campus. Along the way, you’ll meet like-minded peers, share ideas, and connect with our team to ask questions or offer feedback.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oweek-sustainability-campus-tour-spring-tickets-1603762680349?aff=oddtdtcreator
(NZ) Massey Seed Swap
Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Wednesday 10 September
Time: 12pm – 2pm NZST
Institution: Massey University, Manawatū Campus
Meeting point: Manawatū Campus ConcourseThe Sustainability team and Massey Student Wildlife and Conservation Club invite our staff and students to join a campus Seed Swap this Green Campus Week!
We want to help our staff and students plant something new in your home, office or garden this spring.
Anyone can bring along plants, cuttings, seeds or seedlings or give us a small koha in exchange for a new plant baby to take home.All proceeds will go to the kind folks at Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre | Mt Bruce, and leftover seeds will be used to start a Seed Library at Massey
No registration required…just show up!
(NZ) VUW Living Building, Future Leaders
Wellington, NZ
Date: Thursday 11 September
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm NZST
Institution: Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
Meeting point: Ngā Mokopuna (42 Kelburn Parade)Ngā Mokopuna (previously known as the Living Pā) is the redevelopment of the marae precinct at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. It sets a new benchmark for regenerative design and construction, using the Living Building Challenge as a framework to bring together Māori values and sustainability principles. We want Ngā Mokopuna to be a catalyst for action in Wellington and a hub for the sustainability community.
Join us for drinks and nibbles, a guided tour of the building, and a chance to network with other sustainability professionals and some of our most talented and dedicated students – the next generation of sustainability leaders.
RSVP here (by 5 Sept): Andrew Wilks – Director of Sustainability, VUW (andrew.wilks@vuw.ac.nz)
(AU) UTS Green Campus Tour
Sydney, NSW
Date: Tuesday 9 September
Time: 11am – 12pm AEST
Institution: University of Technology Sydney
Meeting point: Global Goals Month Exhibition Space (UTS Foyer, Level 4 Building 1)Want to learn more about what makes the UTS campus sustainable? Come along to a free tour of UTS highlighting the green features of our campus, from the buildings to our native bees. It’s a great chance to learn about climate action on a larger scale and meet other sustainability minded people on campus.
The tour will be hosted by the sustainability team, so feel free to ask us any questions you might have about getting involved in sustainability while we’re exploring. See you there!
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/uts-green-campus-tour-ggm2025
(NZ) Massey Spring Photo Competition
Massey University, NZ
Date: 8 – 12 September
Institution: Massey UniversityThe Sustainability team and Massey Student Wildlife and Conservation Club invite our staff and students to submit a photo to our competition.
The 8th – 12th September is Conservation Week AND Green Campus Week, plus we will soon be starting to see the first signs of spring popping up across our campuses. We call that cause for celebration!3 lucky winners will take home a framed copy of their print, plus a $75 voucher to a local eco store of their choice. Our panel will choose one staff and one student winner, and a “people’s choice” vote will determine the third winner.
– Take your photo on any campus (or at your place of study if you’re a distance student). We want to see birds, trees, plants, critters…anything that shows off the flora and fauna near you.
– Email your photo to sustainability@massey.ac.nz before 4pm on Wednesday 10 September.
– We will announce the winners on Friday 12 September.Last year we held a similar biodiversity themed competition, and we were struck by how much wildlife we have on our campuses and how many talented photographers we have here at Massey! Check out this little gallery of some of our incredible 2024 entries (link: https://www.instagram.com/p/
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Videos
(AU) University of Tasmania’s Healthy, Sustainable and Equitable Food Strategic Plan
Institution: The University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania’s Healthy, Sustainable and Equitable Sustainable Food Strategic Plan aims to bring together existing and new initiatives and activities to ensure that all areas of the University community are working towards a shared vision and leveraging off existing programs and relationships to provide a holistic response to food insecurity. While this excellent work continues, it is evident that there is a need for a systematic and dynamic approach that addresses food insecurity from a grassroots level through embedding ‘food systems’ into our campus design, operations, engagement, research, and curriculum. This needs to be a long-term and self-sustaining process supported by a whole-of-institution, rights based approach, that is taken to address food security among students and staff.
Link to Strategic Plan: www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/
pdf_file/0008/1688111/Healthy, -Sustainable,-and-Equitable- Food-Strategic-Plan-2023-2028. pdf
