UQ Sustainable Innovators Club

22/10/2025

🎉 UQ Sustainable Innovators Club – Annual General Meeting (AGM)

We’re wrapping up an incredible year, growing to 83 members, running impactful projects, and making sustainability happen together 🌿💪

Now it’s time to shape the year ahead!

📅 Date: Friday, Week 12 – 24 October 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 pm
📍 Location: Room 208, Building 39A (General Purpose North 3), UQ St Lucia
💻 Online option: Zoom link 🔗 https://uqz.zoom.us/j/88981533908
🍕 Free pizza for everyone joining in person!

As a financial club member, you can:
🗳️ Vote for the 2025–26 Management Team (President, VP, Treasurer, Secretary)
💬 Share your feedback, ideas, or visions for the club’s future
🙌 Nominate someone you think would make a great leader here: https://forms.gle/jTMxyMNGfVz7xgnq7

Can’t make it? You can also appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf — details are in your email.

Let’s celebrate our progress and decide together where we go next. See you at the AGM! 💜🌏

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14/10/2025

🌿 Nature Built: Integration of Plants in Architecture 🌿

Join us for an interdisciplinary event exploring how plants and architecture can come together to create healthier, greener, and more sustainable spaces. 🌱🏙️

📅 Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕔 5 – 7 pm
📍 Room 275, Global Change Institute (UQ St Lucia)

✨ Featuring:
• Guest Lecture by botanist Erik van Zuilekom (Fytogreen) – Plants as Living Technologies
• PhD research Pecha-Kucha presentations:
• Thi Thanh Nhan An – Farming Architecture for healthier indoor environments
• Lu Jin – Agroecological rewilding in urban green spaces

👥 Hosted by Prof. Susanne Schmidt & Dr Silvia Micheli
🍕 Networking with free pizza after!

This event is jointly organised by UQ’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning and the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability.

👉 Don’t miss this chance to explore the future of green design!

🔗 RSVPing: https://survey.app.uq.edu.au/Nature-Built—Integration-of-Plants-and-Architecture

07/10/2025

Our next speaker we welcome is Diogenes Eli C. Samper, a researcher and entrepreneur whose work bridges sustainability, technology, and governance. Based at the Queensland University of Technology, his research explores how emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain can strengthen transparency and accountability in environmental markets. As Co-founder and CEO of AtlaSynk, Diogenes leads the development of data-driven systems that scale verifiable climate action, with projects operating across Australia and South America.

The UQ Sustainable Innovators Club is proud to present SustAInable Future, an evening designed to connect students with industry professionals, explore how AI is shaping sustainability, and spark valuable conversations.

The event will feature a series of TED-style talks from accomplished representatives, each sharing their expertise and perspectives on the role of AI in driving sustainable change. The talks will be followed by networking and food, giving attendees the chance to meet speakers, ask questions, and build meaningful connections.

📍 Location: 14-116 Sir Llew Edwards Building, Learning Theatre
🗓️ Date: 14th October 2025
⏰ Time: 6:15–9:00+ PM
🍕 Networking & pizza to close the night
🎟️ Tickets: $5 UQSIC members | $10 non-members (link in bio)

05/10/2025

Our next speaker we welcome is Jisoo Kim, whose career spans national security, international relations, and digital strategy. Now leading as Co-Founder and Director at ClearAI, she works to ensure that AI adoption across Australia is guided by ethics, sustainability, and practical governance. Previously, she served as Digital Media Adviser to former Prime Minister Scott Morrison and as Policy Adviser to the Chief of Joint Operations at Defence, bringing a wealth of experience in strategy and leadership to her work in responsible technology.

The UQ Sustainable Innovators Club is proud to present SustAInable Future, an evening designed to connect students with industry professionals, explore how AI is shaping sustainability, and spark valuable conversations.

The event will feature a series of TED-style talks from accomplished representatives, each sharing their expertise and perspectives on the role of AI in driving sustainable change. The talks will be followed by networking and food, giving attendees the chance to meet speakers, ask questions, and build meaningful connections.

📍 Location: 14-116 Sir Llew Edwards Building, Learning Theatre
🗓️ Date: 14th October 2025
⏰ Time: 6:15–9:00+ PM
🍕 Networking & pizza to close the night
🎟️ Tickets: $5 UQSIC members | $10 non-members (link in bio)

03/10/2025

Our first speaker we welcome from Healthy Land and Water, Mark Waud. As Portfolio Manager at HLW, he is dedicated to turning complex data into meaningful action for healthier landscapes and waterways across South-East Queensland. His work bridges scientific research, environmental monitoring, and on-ground restoration projects, ensuring that insights are transformed into real-world outcomes. 🌏

The UQ Sustainable Innovators Club is proud to present SustAInable Future, an evening designed to connect students with industry professionals, explore how AI is shaping sustainability, and spark valuable conversations.

The event will feature a series of TED-style talks from accomplished representatives, each sharing their expertise and perspectives on the role of AI in driving sustainable change. The talks will be followed by networking and food, giving attendees the chance to meet speakers, ask questions, and build meaningful connections.

📍 Location: 14-116 Sir Llew Edwards Building, Learning Theatre
🗓️ Date: 14th October 2025
⏰ Time: 6:15–9:00+ PM
🍕 Networking & pizza to close the night
🎟️ Tickets: $5 UQSIC members | $10 non-members (link in bio)

23/09/2025

Join us for the 2025 School of Environment Industry Night!
Date: 9th October 2025
Time: 4-7:30pm
Venue: 03-309
This annual event is held in collaboration with the other School of Environment clubs as well as professional industry and government bodies!
Join us for an evening of connections with professionals working across different environmental sectors like sustainability, policy, conservation, consulting and more.
Whether you’re just starting to explore career options or are ready to take the next big step, this is your chance to ask questions, get real insights and build connections that could shape your future!
Don’t miss out and register now! Click the link in bio to register :)

19/09/2025

Our next Park Yoga session is scheduled for Wednesday 24th of September 🌱

🙋Bring: a mat of a friend
📍Location: UQ Baby Food Forest (Behind the UQ Community Gardens)
📅Date: Wednesday 24th September
🕓Time: 4-5pm
🎟Tickets: Link in bio or search ‘UQ SIC’ on the rubric app

17/09/2025

🌱 SustAInable Future
An evening exploring how artificial intelligence is being applied across industries and what it means for a sustainable future. From organisational initiatives to personal perspectives, this is your chance to hear directly from the people leading change.
📅 Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
🕕 Time: 6:15–9:00+ PM
📍 Location: 14-116 Sir Llew Edwards Building, Learning Theatre
🍕 Food: Pizza + networking to close the night
🎟️ Tickets: $5 UQSIC members | $10 non-members (link in bio)
A chance to learn directly from professionals, ask questions, and connect with students and industry around the future of AI. Don’t miss out!

01/09/2025

Join us for an afternoon of hands on gardening and community connection! Register in the bio 🎟️

The garden has grown wild over the winter - and also attracted King’s parrots 🦜and other birds. The abundant tulsi basil, lemon grass and pigeon pea bushes are ideal for chop-and-drop mulch and starting the spring growth cycle. 🔄🌱

We will seed a row of milpa into the cuttings from the overgrown bushes and grasses. Milpa, also called “Three Sisters” is an American First Nations technique of interplanting corn, beans, and pumpkins seamlessly. The corn shoots up while the pumpkin leaves cover the ground so they don’t compete for space or sunlight. Once the corn has grown strong it will offer climbing opportunities to the beans while the beans fix nitrogen from the air and make it available as fertiliser for the other crops. 🌽🎃

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn first-hand how nutrient cycling and companion planting work in a food forest. After the gardening session, we got you sorted with a nice BBQ to munch and chat in between. Please select “yes” if you want to stay for the BBQ when registering!

Expect a rewarding mix of physical work, fresh air, and the satisfaction of contributing to a long-term community agroecology project ☀️. Whether you’re keen to collect a bunch of pigeon peas for your next Dal Tadka, aggressively prune bushes and grasses, spread seeds with care, or simply learn more about regenerative gardening, there’s a place for you!

What to bring:
1. Comfortable clothes for outdoor work
2. Sun protection (hat and sunscreen)
3. Gloves (if you have them)
4. Water bottle (water station available)

Come ready to dig in, learn together, and help grow a future in harmony with nature!

26/08/2025

Our Park Yoga session has been rescheduled to Wednesday 27th of August (Tomorrow) 🌱

🙋Bring: a mat of a friend
📍Location: UQ Baby Food Forest (Behind the UQ Community Gardens)
📅Date: Wednesday 27th August
🕓Time: 4-5pm
🎟Tickets: Link in bio

23/08/2025

✨ Hackathon Throwback! ✨

How was everyone’s weekend? Here’s a little recap of our weekend where we hacked biodiversity loss 🦘🦋🌱

A huge thank you to our incredible participants, volunteers, executives, mentors, speakers, judges, and of course our amazing sponsors — , , and — for helping make this event such a success.

Swipe through to see some of the highlights from an inspiring weekend of collaboration, creativity, and sustainable innovation! 📸

19/08/2025