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…
Canada’s oil/tar sands have gained international attention over their environmental impacts and rapid development. Canada is home to one of the World’s largest oil reserves, most of which is only accessible by unconventional extraction methods making it more energy intensive than conventional oil. Major environmental concerns include deforestation of the boreal forest, loss of wetland ecosystems, high emissions of atmospheric pollutants, and the development of toxic tailings ponds that span a total area greater than 130km².
