Talk:Green University in the Czech Republic

4 October 2012

You've provided an excellent summary of the carbon neutral programme at the University of Graz and have clearly paid close attention to the information provided by the presenters. One very small criticism is that you could have included something about the attempts to introduce the concept of sustainability to the various university curricula and the problems associated with that.

You list a very wide range of good ideas for establishing your Green University, although it's not clear if you intend to found a new university based on SD, target one existing university for greening, or whether your intention is to get all Czech universities to participate. It's admirable that you talk about both a bottom-up approach (surveying student attitudes) and top-down (asking for financial and moral support of university rectors), and certainly any such project would have to start off by establishing 'baseline' data, e.g. student and staff knowledge of and opinions of SD/carbon neutrality, current energy efficiency, current purchasing practices, etc, etc, in order to benchmark progress over the course of the project. You'll need a mitigation strategy to overcome potential barriers and risks, too. What about embedding the SD concept in the curricula - would that be an end goal as well? Do you think you'd need to cultivate wider political support also?