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Global Sustainability Institute (GS@RMIT) is a Research and
Innovation Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
It is dedicated to the intellectual and material development of the key emerging
and multi-disciplinary field of knowledge around sustainability, inside and
outside the University.
The Institute was established initially as a project supported by RMIT’s
Vice Chancellor, Professor Ruth Dunkin.
GS@RMIT's approach is founded on the Brundtland definition of sustainable
development:
Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report).
London: Oxford University Press, 1987 |
Our Vision is to be a leader in the intellectual and practical
exploration, development and application of global sustainability in
Australia and the
Asia-Pacific region. Our Mission is to create working models of global
sustainability through collaboration with government, corporate, academic
and community
leaders in the application of global sustainability principles – with
RMIT University as one of those working models.
[ read more on our Vision and Mission ]
GS@RMIT has extended John Elkington’s concept of the "Triple Bottom Line" to
the "Triple Bottom Line Plus One" – adding governance, because new governance
structures and processes are threshold issues of organisational strength,
transparency and accountability in the 21st century. The four dimensions
of the Triple Bottom Line Plus One (economic, environmental, social & cultural
and governance) become doorways to understanding the leading edge global
sustainability ideas, dynamics and trends.
[ read more on Triple Bottom Line Plus One ]
GS@RMIT strategy is based on three interrelated strategic pillars.
Creation of a dynamic repository of leading edge material, intellectual
and practical activity involving academics, students and reseearchers
across all Faculties and Centres of RMIT University, and many external
specialists.
[ read more on The Hub ]
We are working across portfolios and schools within RMIT University to
ensure that sustainability principles and practices are incorporated
into the university’s
vocational and technical education programs.
[ read more on Scholarship: Teaching, Learning & Research ]
GS@RMIT is inviting forward-thinking corporations and other businesses
to join in creating working models of global sustainability, by becoming
Founding Partners. Founding Partners comprise a leading group of organisations
that recognise Global Sustainability as a major business priority.
[ read more on Corporate and Commercial ]
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Appliances like computers, TVs and stereos that have standby mode or that uses a light display should be switched off at the powerpoint. You will save energy and money. (Ben White, GS@RMIT) |
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Australians are the second highest producers (behind only the United States) of waste, per person, in the world. (Source: Human Development Report 1999, United Nations Development Program)
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