Learn about an interesting project and local engagement in south africa. Following the success of the Green Futures model, the Grootbos Foundation has embarked on a new training project to further their commitment to developing the local community. Growing the Future is all about food production: women are trained in the growing of vegetables and fruit, beekeeping and the principles of successful animal husbandry.
What an interesting presentation, what an important topic. The presenation can be downloaded here! Let us keep exchanging, so that when we are the future experts we know what we are talking about and might even have an idea of what to do!
The Green Bug Lectures start into their fourth turn! The Green Bug Lectures now take place every first Tuesday in a month, the preliminary program is shown below.
This semester's lecture starts with a presentation by Jennifer Bilbao from the IGB, Fraunhofer Institute about the scarcity of phosphorus. While the awareness for the scarcity of oil, minerals and even water has finally made its way to the public mind, the scarcity of the essential nutrient Phosphorous still remains fairly unknown. As early as 2035 it is calculated that the demand for phosphorus will outpace the supply. Here we can find an enlightening example of the urgent need to close matter cycles in order to achieve a sustainable resource management.
"Life without Phosphorus?"
Tuesday, 2nd of November, at TMS, starting at 19:00h
The last presentation of the last semester almost disappeared in a jungle of traveling and exams. But I unearthed it in order to give it a second chance to be shared among us. We discussed the possibilities of reacting to the manifold crisis that you don’t need to be an academic to realize we are in. Although the explanations to the slides are missing, there are many interesting links provided. Have a look!
It’s time for the last green bug lectures this semester. This time I want to report from a conference I attended in Berlin. It had the title “generation sustainability” and was organized by students alone. However, there were famous presenters invited like Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (head of the Potsdam institute for climate research) or Elmar Altvater. We heard some interesting presentations and had good discussions there, and I want to share some of the inspiration I got there with you. And most of all: after all the interesting presentations we had this semester, and all the important things that are happening around us, I want to provide some space for us together to draw some conclusions, and to share some ideas what to do. Fetewei Tarekegn will support me by giving a presentation on the aspects of intergenerational justice.
"Towards a generation of sustainability - where are we, where do we want to go?"
Tuesday, 6th of July, at TMS, starting at 18:00h
Attention: we start at 18:00h already in order to give those who want to see both, the lecture and the soccer game, a chance. Because the saying goes: there are more important things than soccer, but not now…
