Level 1, Campus Centre
Monash University 3800
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Environment & Social Justice

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About

Your workshop for social change

The Environment and Social Justice Department, based around the Environment Office Bearers, is a network of people committed to the environment and social justice. The Department works towards change for the better within the University with student support, and campaigns to reduce the University’s carbon footprint and increase its level of sustainability are some of the ways it has gone about this.

If you’re at all concerned about the environment or social justice come to the Department’s office on the first floor of the Campus Centre and get involved.

What we do

On campus, we work with the university towards building more sustainable campuses through minimising consumption of water, paper and energy; purchasing and use of renewable energies, recycled paper and other eco-friendly products; minimising waste and maintaining effective recycling and composting programs. We also support and assist wider student campaigns on issues like protection of old-growth forests, fair trade, indigenous justice, refugee rights, and climate change.

The Environment & Social Justice Collective

The Monash Environment and Social Justice Collective is a network of groups and individuals working together to realise their own goals, desires and visions around social and environmental change. It ensures diversity and that all people can participate equally and take responsibility for the change they want to see.

The Environment and Social Justice Collective determines its own role, though there are a few fundamental principles upon which it was founded upon:

  • inclusive of all forms of organising for Environment and Social Justice, whether it be direct action, educational, advocacy, publicity, domestic and fun,
  • functions as a non-hierarchical consensus body,
  • includes groups and individuals with similar interests,
  • a network and resource hub between existing groups on campus that have different roles,
  • empowers its members and participants by providing opportunities for members,
  • recognises and consistently demonstrates the inexorable links between environmental degradation and social injustice - issues that cannot be separated.

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