Since 2018, a group of staff members from the Geodesy and Geoinformation (GEO) Department is active in the "GEO Green Team". We aim to foster sustainability within our work environment by promoting good practices, offering useful tools and organizing skill sharing through workshops and activities.

We meet at monthly lunch meetings to discuss what we see is still missing and what we can do in order to achieve more sustainable transport, recycling and upcycling, energy and water consumption, waste reduction etc. in and around the office.

We organize events and activities like:

• Workshops on bike repair or repairing electronic devices
• A visit to "Spittelau" waste disposal factory or the sewage treatment plant in Vienna
• Movie evening watching a documentary on plastic waste

• A clean-up-walk along Donaukanal

   

In addition, we promote and enable long-term changes on department level, like:

• Waste separation and recycling bins in the kitchen
• Waste free and fair trade coffee bean delivery each month
• Flea market window sill area (bring in old things that are too good to throw away, a co-worker could maybe use it: books, lamps, mirrors, earrings, etc.)
• Offering big filter coffee machines as an easy and sustainable way of providing coffee at smaller events

• Secure bike storage

   

As part of the TU Green Team and the fuTUre fit working group on sustainability, the GEO Green Team is also actively involved in sustainability efforts on a TU-wide level.