Green campus

GOING GREEN

Red means stop! Green means go!

Going green means it’s always better to turn a light off than to leave it on.

Going green means eating less meat because raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the cars and planes combined.

Going green means shutting down, sleeping, or hibernating your computer when you're not using it.

Going green means walking or bicycling in our beautiful Campus One.

Going green means using reusable shopping bags and to say NO to plastic.

Going green means you do the little things that make a big difference,

from recycling, to shutting off equipment when not in use.

This list is not exhaustive. Just one more, last thing:

Going green means learning English to broaden your knowledge of sustainability and to implement sustainable practices that help protect the environment for future generations.

Following the signing of the Talloires Declaration in October 2013 by the Rector of TVU, Dr Pham Tiet Khanh, the School of Foreign Languages members and staff are committed to green actions.

This page is to connect School, staff, students, and the broader community with green ideas while promoting environmental education about and for the environment. >> More

NEWS

FLS Faculty Member Publishes Two Papers in International Conference Proceedings

TRA VINH, 28 April – Dr Ho Dac Tuc, deputy dean of TVU School of Foreign Languages, has recently co-published two papers with Drs François Malherbe and Vivienne Waller of Swinburne University in an international conference proceedings.

The first paper entitled "Innovating campus sustainability projects through international collaborative engagements," was presented in the Proceedings of the 14th International Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) hosted by Tasmania University, Australia.

The paper details the sustainability joint project between Swinburne and TVU Universities that highlight aspects of active partnership and staff engagement critical in developing cross border sustainability programs. The main objectives of the project are to offer a platform for students from Australia and Vietnam to jointly develop proposals to improve the physical environment of the Vietnamese campus, and disseminate the message of sustainability to the community.

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Implementing education about and for the environment a focus at workshop for teachers

Ký Tuyên bố Talloires: Đại học Trà Vinh cam kết xây dựng đại học xanh

In half an hour of rubbish collection at TVU Campus One, the group of 36 TVU and SUT students collected 53.1kg of plastic rubbish, consisting mainly of plastic straws, plastic bags and polystyrene takeaway food containers. TVU and SUT staff propose steps to tackle garbage disposal.

Download:Waste Management Proposal – Swinburne & Tra Vinh (pdf, 237 kb)

Connecting TVU with secondary schools through green activities

TVU and SUT students propose ways to link green activities to secondary school students, thus enriching student learning about sustainability, and fostering a sense of community engagement.

Download:Environmental Outreach Program for Secondary Schools - Swinburne & Tra Vinh (pdf, 354 kb)

International Green Campus Project

This project was conceived by Dr Pham Tiet Khanh, Rector and President of Tra Vinh University, Dr Ho Dac Tuc, Deputy Dean of the School of Economics, Law and Foreign Languages, and Dr François Malherbe, Associate Dean International of the School of Life & Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology, in January 2013.

The following proposals are submited to the Management of TVU following two weeks of collaborative activities between Swinburne and Tra Vinh students and staff at TVU.