Together with our partner Mutmacherei, SERI will organise a city walk in Vienna on the occasion of this year’s ERDgespräche. The city walk will be held in German; find more information here.

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On Thursday, March 29th 2012, SERI-researcher Christian Kerschner held an informative brownbag seminar at SERI and discussed the various attitudes of researchers towards technology. He gave an insight into his survey on the attitudes of ecological economists which was conducted during the ISEE conference 2010 in Bremen-Oldenburg. The participants also reflected on their own attitudes and engaged in interesting discussions. Read his full presentation here.

Brownbags are informal seminars open for discussion. They take place on a monthly basis at SERI and are open for the interested public.

What kind of framework is needed for a Green Economy? Which news does the Rio+20 conference offer? How can entrepreneurs design a Green Economy practically? And which actors should be the main drivers for green development – civil society, business, national states, international organizations and agreements? These and further interesting questions will be discussed at the International Conference on Sustainable Business and Consumption in November 2012.

There will be presentations by experts from all over the world, real-world case studies, discussions, thematic sessions as well as opportunities for networking.

Entrepreneurs as well as NGOs and stakeholder organizations can take part. If you register by 30 June 2012, the tickets are only half the price.

You find further information on the event page.

From 30 may to 1 june 2012, an event on “Green ICT (information and communication technologies) for Growth and Sustainability” takes place in Vienna.

ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are widely regarded as enablers of “green growth” in various sectors of the economy, but at the same time expanded technology use raises energy consumption. Hence, there are various questions regarding the effects of ICTs on sustainable development.

Exemplary topics to be explored in system mapping sessions:
What impacts on residential energy consumption can be expected from the introduction of energy labeling on consumer electronics?
What is the potential of smart metering in encouraging energy savings in the long run?
Will cloud computing lead to overall savings of energy and other resources?

Programm

The keynote speakers:

The final conference on the EcoChange project took place in march in Zurich, Switzerland. EcoChange is a 5-year EU project with 23 partner institutions from all across Europe, investigating the impacts of global climate change on biodiversity and its capacity provide for human needs in the coming decades. SERI researchers Ines Omann, Julia Wesely and Daniela Pock were there, presenting SERIs contributions to the project, which mainly dealt with socio-economic implications and the dissemination of the project’s main key messages. Yesterday, they held an interactive seminar on stakeholder involvement, and today Ines and Julia will present their findings in the session „Ecosystem services in a changing world“. The main messages of the conference are covered on SERIs twitter channel, which can be followed here.

The illustrative project brochure  with the main results can be downloaded here.

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Fritz Hinterberger travels today to the 1st meeting of the Expert Committee preparing for the 2nd “World Resources Forum“, which will take place from 19-21. September 2011 in Davos. SERI is a partner of this event.

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