Education should play an important role in sustainable development all over the world. However, at present, education often contributes to unsustainable living and the reason for it is low ecological culture of students and employees of institutions. The paper outlines problems in the area of ecological culture and behaviour of students and employees in Russian University. The survey was carried out using questionnaire. There were both open questions and multiple choice questions. The article presents the main results of the survey. Data analysis shows that the general level of ecologic culture of students and employees is not very high but the most of them are ready to support the ecological activities of the university. The students under 22 were the least conscious in issues of ecologic culture and ecologic behaviour. The majority of respondents point out that social advertising, visual aids and other means of educating in this field could enhance ecologic culture and motivate people to demonstrate better ecologic behaviour