Students:Petr Skákal

By Friday was it? Well...better late than never as they say...So, what about myself? 25 years of age, 6feet 4inches, 220 pounds (therefore unmistakeable in the crowd), Palacky University in Olomouc-based (but originally a stout member of CZ/PL/SVK border town of Třinec), 5th year English and Biology teacher programme student with laidback and rather informal attitude and a big get-me-in-trouble-and-get-me-out-of-that-trouble-again mouth, very much alive and kicking....figuratively speaking.

Might be that I shall scare all of you tomorrow, I have a little bit of residue tooth infection, so my left cheek reminds of a sumo wrestler. But not to worry, it should clear out in a day or two, my doctor said. I would be interested (amongst other things)in getting to know specific exaples of situations, actions, projects and studies that can be used as persuasion points when introducing the topic of Sustainable Development to the layman community, especially children at primary school or, alternatively, senior citizens who are not familiar with the topic.

And as for the project that I know of...tricky business. The major steel producing factory in my home city ([1])is ever boasting about SD projects, of this and that improvement, of reduction in pollution, keeping high employment and projects for the future, but if pressed, I would name the Revitalisation of the Olše river project. It was intended to mimimise the effects of past misgivings (which are huge) and to construct a new system of canals and water-purifying plants with expected cost of over 162 milion crowns([2]). Let's just hope that its effects are to be felt in decades to come.