Norbert Reintjes, Professor of Industrial Ecology at the Technical University of Lübeck, has been dealing with the topic of sustainability for years and knows that no one can stop global warming with expensive products and pure idealism. This requires completely new rules of the game: the mainstream must become sustainable. He explains very clearly what weak and strong sustainability is all about and why the data centers will soon all have to go to the coast.
Bernd Ruf, Professor of Popular Music at the Music Academy in Lübeck to report. The conductor, clarinetist and saxophonist knows what making music together can entail, across borders. The cultural dimension must therefore not be missing from the sustainability debate. Wouldn’t it be an idea to deal with the topic in new songs as well?
Liv Maleski, a student in the second semester of media informatics at the University of Luebeck. Together with other students, she developed the comparison portal “Greendex”, which can help to be sustainable when choosing clothes. This can mean paying attention to certain materials, tracking supply chains, buying second-hand goods or using possible buying and selling platforms.
Moderated by Vivian Upmann, press spokeswoman for the University of Lübeck, the podcast from Lübeck to the power of 3 once a month topics of research, culture and society. Representatives of the three universities involved in the project (Lübeck University of Music, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and Lübeck University of Applied Sciences) and, depending on the topic, an expert as a guest are invited.
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The discussion round in episode 26:
dr Norbert Reintjes is Professor of Industrial Ecology at the TH Lübeck. The graduate biologist gained several years of experience in private and governmental international environmental protection projects in Ecuador and Benin. Also in West Africa, in the Comoé National Park of the Ivory Coast, the research work for his doctorate took place at the Institute for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the University of Würzburg. Important further positions as a full-time employee of an environmental association and as head of the topic of product-related environmental protection at the Hamburg consulting company Ökopol diversified his qualifications. Since 2012 he has been passing on his experience at the TH Lübeck, mainly in modules on ecology, environmental sciences and environmental assessment. He established and directs the degree program in Environmental Engineering and Management.
Prof. Bernd Ruf teaches popular music at the MHL and is considered one of the most prominent frontier crossers in the German music scene. The focus of his work is on bringing together and comparing classical music, new music, jazz and so-called world music. He works as a freelance conductor in Germany and abroad and has regularly conducted the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic as a guest for several years. For the Handel Festival in Halle, he conceived and directed the annual concert event “Bridges to the Classics”. Bernd Ruf is also the founder and artistic director of the GermanPops Orchestra. The orchestra has specialized in studio productions and live concerts in the field of classical crossover. Most recently he was in Ecuador with the PopsChor of the Lübeck University of Music.
Liv Maleski is in the second semester studying media informatics at the University of Lübeck. Together with fellow students, she has developed a comparison portal for clothes: The sustainability aspect is very important for “Greendex”. For the project, the team received first place in the EMI Award, the prize for the most successful group results from the first-semester event “Introduction to Media Informatics” (EMI).
The moderator Vivian Upmann has been press spokeswoman for the University of Lübeck and head of the communication department since the beginning of 2021. As an experienced news journalist, TV correspondent and journalism lecturer, Vivian Upmann has been able to develop a keen sense for good stories over the past few years. She has remained true to the microphone and enjoys moderating events with a focus on science, politics and digital issues. She is particularly looking forward to moderating the podcast, “because exciting discussions can arise with experts from such different areas.”