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Rethinking the future - Risks of lifestyles based on economic growth and consumerism and possible alternatives

Clusterevent of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal, Bonn

on the occasion of "30th Anniversary of The Right Livelihood Award" -
CHANGINGcourse reclaiming our future

on Thursday, 16th September 2010
Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, Ahrstraße 45, 53175 Bonn, Room S1/2
Programme

2:00 p.m.   

Welcome address

Stefanie Wahl
Managing Director of the Denkwerk Zukunft -
Foundation for Cultural Renewal, Bonn
2:10 p.m. Why everything is at stake -
From the focus on economic growth to ecological and
social sustainability 
 

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr
Former director of the Werner-Heisenberg-Institute at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics und Astrophysics in Munich, founder and chairman of Global Challenges Network e.V., Munich, Right Livelihood Award 1987
2:40 p.m. Solution or part of the problem?
The ambivalence of new technologies
 

Pat Mooney
Co-founder and executive director of the ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration), Ottawa, Canada, Right Livelihood Award 1985
3:10 p.m. Panel discussion
What has to be done? - Rethinking the future
 

Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr
Pat Mooney
Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel
Chairman of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal, Bonn

3:50 p.m

Continuation of the panel discussion with of all participants

4:20 p.m.

Closing remarks

Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel
                  
 

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