Urban Camp Melbourne - Green initiatives

Green Initiatives

Urban Camp Melbourne is committed to ensuring as little impact on the environment as possible. This commitment includes aims to improve sustainability in its water, energy and waste management.

Green initiatives around the Camp

A federal grant awarded by the City of Melbourne is currently being used to install solar panels to be completed by September 2009.

General policy is to budget for ongoing sustainable initiatives highlighted by an extensive report completed in 2008. This will include cyclical maintenance.

To date, Urban Camp has implemented the following initiatives to enhance its environmental sustainability:

- Composting of some of current vegetable / fruit waste

- Recycling of paper / cardboard

- Recycling of plastic / glass

- Introduction of paperless fax system

- Installation of efficient shower heads

Carbon Footprint

As part of its commitment to sustainability, Urban Camp has aimed to improve the environmental efficiency of The Camp, through reduction in energy usage and waste generation. We are currently reviewing our procedures and creating a report which includes a carbon inventory and the data has in turn been used to measure the organisation's carbon footprint. In the future, this data will form part of a comparative study after Urban Camp has installed renewable energy technology at the site. The aim of this inventory therefore is to provide a 'baseline' for future comparisons of carbon emissions.