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.
SERI’s ERDgespräche Side-Event: City Walk “Green Vienna”
(Deutsch) Buchpräsentation “Growth in Transition”. Mittwoch, 11. April in der Hauptbücherei Wien
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Review: Brownbag-seminar on sustainability sciences and their attitude towards technology
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.
27 -28 November 2012: International Conference on Sustainable Business and Consumption (SusCon 2012) in Bonn
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.
30 may to 1 june: Green ICT for Growth and Sustainability?
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?
The keynote speakers:
Lorenz Erdmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research
Lorenz Hilty, University of Zürich & Empa
Peter Johnston, European Policy Centre & Club of Rome
Inge Ropke, Technical University Denmark
Vida Rozite, International Energy Agency
Please note that the number of participants is limited to 40 people.
Registration deadline: 30 april 2012
Further information on the event here.
For any questions, please contact ict@scp-responder.eu
EcoChange Final Conference in Zurich
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.
(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Christian Kerschner am 29. März am SERI
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(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Dr. Wilfried Altzinger am 28. Februar am SERI
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(Deutsch) Premiere des Theaterstücks “Guter Morgen Marienthal” mit Expertendiskussion am 1. Juli
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(Deutsch) Brownbag mit Ira Mollay am 30. Juni am SERI
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