The campus embraces business of sustainability
Business schools have been slow to embrace sustainability issues in their course material, but even slower off the mark in assessing how their own campuses could be more ecologically sound.
Few have taken the time to turn a critical eye to their own use of natural resources: like many service companies, they see global warming and sustainability as issues for heavy industry and electricity producers.
A growing group, however, is trying to address this shortcoming. In Europe, London Business School is widely credited with raising awareness of institutions' role with its "Walk the Talk" environmental management programme. Inspired by a campus visit in 2004 by Al Gore, the former US presidential hopeful and environmental guru, it started with a root-and-branch assessment of energy use and waste production at the school and resulted in a series of measures to cut these. For example, energy-efficient lighting has replaced old lamps and bulbs, and insulation around heating ducts and water pipes has been improved. Waste recycling bins have been placed prominently in central collection points, and students have been encouraged to give up disposable cups in favour of reusable thermos flasks.
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