Institute for Sustainable Futures

Finding out communities' attitudes towards biomass will help to plan renewable energy innovations in the Riverina and Hunter Valley regions. 

Analysing the value and viability of proposed conservation measures in Western Sydney.

This project sought to discover how landholders in Western Sydney perceived and engaged with the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.

Our research supported the case for a world-leading reward scheme for urban food production.

As part of the University’s Environmental Sustainability Initiative, ISF developed UTS’s inaugural sustainability strategies in the areas of transport, climate change and paper reduction.

Enhancing the environmental sustainability of key actors in the textile and garment sectors.

Plastic pollution world-wide is growing and creating significant ecological, social and economic impacts.

ISF collaborated with Flow Systems (now the Altogether Group) to investigate the feasibility of using anaerobic digestion to manage multiple organic waste streams in a dense urban environment.

Assisting the NSW government with planning a sustainable future by looking at international applications of a circular economy.