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!
The presentation can be downloaded here!
It's Green-Bug-Lectures-tuesday again!
The topic will be: "Engagement in politics: how can we be heard?"
We will have an Interview with Hannes Rockenbauch, founder of the SÖS (“Stuttgart ecological and social”), member of the municipal council and student. We will talk about his experiences, motivations successes and disappointments in local politics.
As always: there is the chance for discussion, FRESH will provide honest, organic and self-made food, and afterwards you can chillout with a beer served by the ASTA-Kulturgruppe.
Tuesday, November the 24th at 19:00h, at TMS.
There is an international umbrella organisation of NGOs concerned about climate change, the climate action network (CAN). They provide a lot of material on their homepage (under „policy and information“). Look for their "ECO" newsletter, short but very well written crtical comments on ongoing negotiations.
Elaborate list of important links to climate change.
Official site of the UFCCC, which is a vast source of information. There is also a webcast of important meetings of the ongoing climate change talks in
The german NGO german watch is very active in fighting for climate justice, but they also provide a lot of material.
A very good and critical report on carbon trade can be found here („this publication takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of ‘lessons unlearned’. Nine case studies from different parts of the world provide examples of the outcomes.“)
Discussion paper of „Bred for the world“ (a german NGO) on financing climate adaption.
Thank you all for your contributions after the movie. Unfortunately so far the discussion did not go on after this evening, although certainly further exchange could be fruitful.
I am gonna make a short contribution: for those of you speaking German, it might be worth to check the Wikipedia article about the movie (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwins_Alptraum). The controversy around this movie is well documented with “external links”. If you follow the links to Arte, taz, or “Freundeskreis Bagamoyo” you will find the whole range of criticisms.
I am still sort of undecided. From a “scientific” point of view the movie has certainly distinct weaknesses. On the other hand it is art, and the main massage passed (“look, there is suffering in other parts of the world, and
I want to stress the point Katrin brought in, that education might be the only way out of the misery some people in Africa find them self in. One day later I talked to a friend of mine, who is very much engaged in “informal education” in
http://www.edeju.de/english/Home_engl.html
Might be worth a visit, and maybe a first step from discussion into action!
