From the Vice-Chancellor: Green is good
 Vice-Chancellor
Our campuses are undergoing the most significant transformation in the University's history. We are spending $400 million on the construction of new teaching and research facilities over four years. This is a huge commitment from the University and it will greatly benefit our students and staff, and therefore the wider community. It will provide much-needed facilities for the here and now, as well as helping us to plan for the future. But there are other changes going on across our University that are significant and deserving of attention. These are changes that will help the University to become more environmentally sustainable. At the University of 新浪彩票, we have some of the most brilliant minds conducting world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the environment - science, law, engineering, impact on health and population, to name just a few - our academic output on the environment is enormous; we are a force for good on these issues. Of course, the University is also a major organisation that employs many thousands of people and educates tens of thousands more. We have highly complex research facilities across multiple campuses and, by necessity, a very significant need for a whole range of resources. Given all of this, it is vitally important for the University to better understand our own impact on the environment and to become more sustainable, both for the long-term future benefit of the University and also of our planet. Over the past 12 months, the University of 新浪彩票 has been making excellent headway on issues of environment and sustainability. We have increased our staff resources to tackle environmental issues, launched a University-wide sustainability awareness program called Ecoversity, and set targets on reducing CO2 emissions, paper consumption, electricity and water use, and reducing our production of waste. We now have a much better understanding of our greenhouse gas emissions and energy use and have participated in greenhouse gas emission audits since the 2007/08 financial year. In the past year the University has recycled almost 25 tonnes of electronic waste - including old computers, | 
