Sustainable Strategies in Slovenia – Hanu Rareș
Sustainability strategies are plans and efforts that a business puts into place in order to remain a going concern. These strategies include corporate governance, employee development, innovation and systematic improvements. They may be in corporate governance, so it becomes a mantra that a company always keeps at the front of its operations.
We are ecstatic that while we were in the Erasmus+ project, we took part in a workshop hosted by Gimnazija Celje-Center together with Make Sense project, that consisted in a debate between former students of the GCC: Rok Lipnik, Filip and Urh Burnik-twins, Mitja Suvajc, mag. Peter Čakš. There, they introduced us subjects based on the four pillars of the sustainable strategies: Human, Social, Economic and Environmental. They addressed us future ideas such as increasing the use of cryptocurrencies instead of bills in order to reduce the consume of materials used for their production, the importance of social entrepreneurs, the use of sustainable strategies. Also, we talked about Elon Musk’s growth mindset behind Tesla, how we can always learn or improve new abilities and we should neither be afraid to take risks, nor fail during our path to success.
During a brainstorming-workshop held in GCC’s Art department, we discussed about how we can start to be social entrepreneurs, what’s their mindset and how we can make GCC a greener place. We started saying that the use of solar panels on the rooftop of GCC and insulating the building with modern materials such as icynene (a foam made out of castor oil that expands about 100 times when you spray it and not only it seal leaks and drafts, but it also cancels noises) will be high-cost projects, but on a long term future, GCC will save lots of money. Considering that GCC is a historical protected building, its structure can’t be modified so these projects are going to be difficult to achieve.
Furthermore, we’ve talked over ways of reinvesting the money obtained from reducing the cost of maintaining GCC. The ones that stood out the most were these: building a greenhouse to reduce the need of constantly buying vegetables for the school’s canteen, investing in student’s needs, school facilities and using the money to pay school projects or buy scholar items for those students that don’t have a good financial status, but still want to learn and experience new ways of developing their knowledge.
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