National Strike!

I’m not really sure if I understand this correctly. A student started with a completely simple action. She set herself in front of the Swedish parliament and went on strike. She was advocating for something. Many of us acknowledged that more and more young people were following her example – but the media discussions were […]

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Climate Awareness Take Two: Is History Repeating Itself?

Do you remember the terrible Sandoz chemical accident from Switzerland in 1986? There was an outcry from German environmental groups. Local chapters of Greenpeace gathered on the Rhein Bridge in teeth-chattering cold. I was one of them, standing on this bridge. Six months earlier, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor had exploded. I shrugged off this disaster, […]

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Climate Change – am I a hypocrite?

On Friday (March 15th), thousands of students worldwide took to the streets so that our generation, their parents’ generation, finally do something about climate change. So that we finally realize that we are perhaps in the most dramatic crisis of our civilization. Maybe it’s even the beginning of the end of our civilization? As I […]

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Protecting the climate differently: Fly as much as you want!

Professor Franz Josef Radermacher, member of the Club of Rome, suggests in his new book what at first glance seems to be a crazy idea: “The core of the recommendation is that companies and people finance high-value projects in non-industrialized countries as CO2 compensation and in doing so not only address climate issues, but also […]

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New Work – Going from Simple Buzzword to Maturity

The buzzword “New Work” has popped up excessively in every magazine and newspaper in the last few months. This term is used to sell almost anything: Yoga for management, expensive and wonderful lounges (formerly the coffee kitchen) and, of course, the idea that every start-up is good and we just need to bring this hip […]

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About the State of the World – 3 Books to Inspire You

1. Corporations take over the power, the climate goes to hell “Secretively, but right in front of our eyes, the balance of power has shifted in our society so much that democracy, the market economy, our autonomy and our freedom is threatened. We as citizens must fight back.” I came across Thilo Bode, who was […]

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Could students get politicians to finally start treating climate change as a crisis?

“You are not mature enough to tell it like it is,” she [Greta Thunberg]said at the COP24 summit, which ended late Saturday night after two weeks of tense negotiations. “Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don’t care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.” (CNN) In […]

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The Cities will be Filled with Bicycles

City growth is the norm. Despite fiber-optic networks and 5G, people are moving away from the countryside and in to the city, while the residents left in the small town and villages get older and older. The young people leave, the old people stay. Japan, a country with population development similar to Germany, already has […]

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