Sustainability
Starry Nights Luxury Camping is a genuine sustainable eco-accommodation property, minimising daily-emissions and close to a zero-carbon footprint. Our sustainable approach also includes the following initiatives:
- Over 4000 plants have been planted on the property
over the last 2 years - Natural ventilation is used and ceiling fans
- Toilets are dual flush
- Hot water heated on demand only, by gas
- Low energy use LED bulbs
- Revegetation of areas affected by any development
- Driven piles and shallow foundations only –
all buildings are built off the ground - Continuous removal of exotic species
- Recycling programs and use of recycled and
natural products where possible. - No town water and no chlorine or fluoride
- Biodegradable cleaning agents are used
- No intentional feeding of wildlife
- Renewable electricity
(solar electricity is produced on-site) - Practicing reuse, recycle, reduce and recover
programs - Decreasing transport emissions through bulk buying
- Decreasing water use, low-flow fittings,
low-water toilets - Decreasing noise and environmental pollution,
restricting vehicles to car park - Use of biodegradable toiletries and organic
cleaning agents; - Composting organic waste in established worm farm
- Using only native plants for re-vegetation work,
with local species preferred - Establishing local native plants in all revegetation
- Member of Land for Wildlife
- Environmental practices including on-site
waste-water treatment - Conservation and progressive restoration and
rehabilitation of the rainforest
Starry Nights is 95% off grid with an emergency feed to the power grid only:
The property produces its own:
- Water
- Electricity from solar cells (which also feeds back to the grid)
- On site wastewater treatment
Starry Nights has established a Vegetation Protection Covenant with the Queensland Land Registry over 1/3 of the property.
A vegetation covenant is a perpetual legally binding document that does not allow the current owners or any future owners to clear or develop that land. This has been done this to establish a fauna corridor to connect Petrie Creek to the Triuna National Par