About the project

The idea of Green Alumni is to create an alumni voice dedicated to transforming educational institutions to become truly sustainable. The voice campaigns schools to take the following steps towards sustainability:

1. Acknowledge the nature of the problem and the responsibility of each school to create change.

• Our current socioeconomic system (consumerism, eternal economic growth) is unsustainable
• Schools are currently part of the problem, but often falsely present themselves as green
• Meaningful change will involve a profound change of heart across education

2. Produce graduates who take a political stance on the environment, who are well-informed about, truly appreciative of, and concerned for the natural world.

• Whenever possible, include and integrate environmental concerns into learning
• Aim for student-led initiatives, focusing on action rather than simply knowledge

3. Integrate environmental concerns across all aspects of institutional life and decision making.

• This goes far beyond recycling and "green days" to raise awareness
• It means a culture change: including a significant reduction in consumption, and a sustainable policy that shouts louder than concerns of prestige and school development
• It also includes responsible fossil-free investment

How the campaigns work

Each group of alumni is a "chapter" that will organize its own campaign, targeted at the alma mater. Through dialogue, analysis, and events, the chapter will hope to influence its school to have a change of heart on the environment and do the right thing.

A school holds its students to high moral standards, affects their reputation and future through publishing a record of progress and grades, and guides them to choose the right path. In return, each Green Alumni chapter will hold its school to high standards, affect its reputation through publishing a record of its progress on environmental matters, and help guide the school to choose the right path.