Working towards greater sustainability

The Sustainability Working Group has been busy this year, meeting a number of times to develop key documents to guide it and the College community.

The College established the Sustainability Working Group in 2020 to act as the governance body with oversight of the development and implementation of sustainability initiatives across all areas of the College (including all entities). The group's work, which commenced with the commissioning of a sustainability audit, was disrupted by COVID-19.

The group's objective is to provide leadership, coordination, and guidance to the College on the integration of sustainability principles and practices throughout the College’s core governance, teaching & learning and operational activities. Its membership was strengthened this year with the addition of Sustainability Captains Yasmin Surman-Schmidt and Joshua Kingston, both in Year 12.

Having written a Terms of Reference, the group then set about updating the Sustainability Charter and developing an Action Plan with themes including paper, energy and water usage and reducing waste.

• Radford College Sustainability Action Plan
• Radford College Sustainability Charter 2022
• Radford College Sustainability Working Group Terms of Reference

The group's next step is to develop a whole-College Environmental Management Plan and it looks forward to updating the Radford community in Semester Two.