Premier's Sustainability Awards – 2019 winners and finalists
Education Award winner: River Nile School – Sustainability across VCAL Curriculum. The full list of the 2019 Premier's Sustainability Awards category winners and finalists.
Built Environment
Winner: Monash University
Project: Gillies Hall
Monash University’s new Gillies Hall is a six level, 150-bed residential accommodation complex and the first large scale building in Australia to achieve Passive House certification.
Finalists
Gannawarra Shire Council – Sustainable Gannawarra
HIP V. HYPE and Six Degrees Architects – Nightingale 2.0
Community
Winner: Renew
Project: Hepburn Z-NET
Partnering with Renew, the Hepburn Shire has a bold plan to be the first zero-net energy shire in Australia and to reach zero-net emissions in 10 years.
Finalists
Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions, Bendigo Sustainability Group, Gippsland Climate Change Network – Community Power Hub: Inspiring Innovation and transition
- Enable Social Enterprises – Enable IT Recycling
Education
Winner: River Nile School
Project: Sustainability across VCAL Curriculum
The River Nile School offers programs delivering the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) curriculum to re-engage refugee and asylum seeker school-aged women, embedding the topic of sustainability.
Finalists
- Ballarat Tech School – War on Waste – Precious Plastic Program
- St Aloysius Primary School, Queenscliff – Stewards of Swan Bay
Environmental Justice
Winner: AMES Australia and Parks Victoria
Project: Working Beyond the Boundaries
Migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia works with Parks Victoria to regenerate an historic garden, providing work opportunities, social, physical and mental health benefits to refugee and other local communities.
Finalists
- Enable Social Enterprises – Enable IT Recycling
- Renew – Hepburn Z-NET
Environmental Protection
Winner: Greening the West
Project: 1 Million Trees Project
Greening the West is a collaboration that aims to deliver positive health, social and livability outcomes in Melbourne’s west by a planting one million trees.
Finalists
- Booth Transport – Strathmerton Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Environmental Monitoring Solutions – Fuelsuite
Environmental Volunteering
Winner: Electrifying Industry Volunteer Working Group
Project: Electrifying Industry
Electrifying Industry is a report by Beyond Zero Emissions’ expert volunteers: a world first, that shows how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing.
Finalists
- Colleen Hughson – Good Will Nurdle Hunting
- Park Guide Volunteers – Volunteer Park Guides
Government
Winner: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Project: Victorian Renewable Energy Target Reverse Auction
Victoria’s first renewable energy auction is supporting the development of more than 900 megawatts of new clean energy and will ensure that 25% of our electricity generation comes from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025 and 50% by 2030.
Finalists
- Barwon Water – Barwon Water's Zero Emissions program
- Greening the West – Greening the West – 1 Million Trees Project
Health
Winner: Melbourne Health
Project: Reducing hunger and food waste in our community
Melbourne Health’s surplus patient meals are collected and delivered to community food hub, Northpoint Centre, helping people in need and mitigating food waste.
Finalists
- Drukshini Dissanayake – Aluminium Suture Packet Recycling
- Western Health and Donations In Kind-Rotary International – Equipment Reissue Program for Hardship
Innovative Products or Services
Winner: Enable Social Enterprises
Project: Enable IT Recycling
Enable is an innovative social enterprise that integrates environmental, social and economic impact, creating employment opportunities and positive customer results through an e-waste recycling business.
Finalists
- Soap Aid – Hotel to Hands
- Sustainable Australia Fund – Better Building Finance
Large Business
Winner: Downer
Project: Reconophalt
Downer has created an asphalt pavement material that incorporates non-traditional repurposed materials to reduce environmental impact without compromising product performance and is perpetually recyclable.
Finalists
- NEXTDC – Organisational Sustainability Projects and Facilities Upgrades
- Veolia Environmental Services – Waste Pioneers Program
Small and Medium Enterprises
Winner: Kia Ora Merino – BP, SS, JP & N Finnigan
Project: E.S.P. Wool Production
E.S.P. or Ethical, Sustainable, Profitable wool production is now a feature of the Kia Ora Merino family farm and features practices such as reducing chemical use, changing the genetic selection of sheep and sowing permanent pastures.
Finalists
- retub – Premium reusable takeaway containers
- Smart Recycling – Pioneers in Innovative Recycling
Premier's Recognition Award
Winner: Enable Social Enterprises
Project: Enable IT Recycling
Enable is an innovative social enterprise integrates environmental, social and economic impact, creating employment opportunities and positive customer results through an e-waste recycling business.
Premier's Regional Recognition Award
Winner: Kia Ora Merino – BP, SS, JP & N Finnigan
Project: E.S.P. Wool Production
E.S.P. – Ethical, Sustainable, Profitable – wool production is now a feature of the Kia Ora Merino family farm and features practices such as reducing chemical use, changing the genetic selection of sheep and sowing permanent pastures.
