Sustainability

Sensing+ node in use on berry farm

AI provides sweet results for Australian berry farms

Harvesting is one of the most expensive operations in commercial berry production, and one of the more complex to manage. Now, the power of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to the process, with benefits for growers, the food supply chain – and berry lovers.
Professor Hokyong Shon

New method of water purification makes every drop count

New technology being developed by UTS scientists in Australia – the world’s driest inhabited continent – is recovering water from unconventional sources that include saline groundwater, wastewater from mine sites and human urine from city lavatories.

A crowd of people protesting against coal mining

The politics of coal and climate

A UTS team of political sociologists is investigating the coal industry with a research project that challenges the development of new mining projects.

Collection of photos from the Enterprise in WASH initiative (supplied by Juliet Willetts)

Enabling access to clean water and sanitation

Associate Professor Juliet Willetts, Research Director at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, has spent the last three years immersed in Enterprise in WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene), a research initiative in Vietnam, Indonesia and Timor-Leste to advise national policymakers and practitioners.

Summer Study researchers in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (photo supplied by Chris Dunstan)

Reducing carbon and increasing productivity

Four years ago, The Australian Alliance to Save Energy (A2SE), together with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, initiated the annual Australian Summer Study on Energy Productivity, to ensure energy productivity remained a top priority on the national and international agenda.

Dr Brent Jacobs standing in front of 'Adopt and Adapt' artwork (photo supplied by Brent Jacobs)

Adapting to urban heat

Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures have produced the first national data on urban tree cover, helping us understand why certain urban areas are much hotter than others, and more importantly, what we can do about it.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.