All Posts from Majka Baur
Art: a tool to manage complexity and raise awareness
Memory is selective. The impressions that sticked to the minds of the participants of the WRF 2011 are starting to lose their tint. What will people remember in one year? And in five years? Personally, I will remember the presentation by Klaus Elle at the highlights session at the end of the first conference day. » read on
YES we can! – What can we learn from youth?
Yes we can! Obama was not the first to use this empowering sentence. Roger Baud founder of ACTIS, a spin off of ETHZ, already used it in 2000 to promote the first Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) course. Bring 35 young people from all around the world together for 17 days. Hold interactive classes on » read on
Real Prices for Resources against Squandering – Interview with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is one of the gurus of resource efficiency present at the WRF 2011. I had the privilege to interview him. I asked about him how did we arrive to the present resource squandering and how should the political and economical frame change to establish a sustainable resources use? How did » read on
Joining the pieces of the puzzle
In the first plenary session of the day the speakers showed incontestable facts demonstrating that keeping business as usual is not an option that will allow our children to enjoy the same living standard we do. Beside showing the need to change, every speaker proposed it’s own approach on what and how to change. What lacked » read on
The Student Reporter countdown to the WRF
Saturday afternoon 16:20, main train station of Zürich – “Are you from the Student Reporter group?”. Two smiles answer my question. I found two of the nine student reporters with who I’ll share a unique trip to the World Resources Forum (WRF) 2011 in Davos. After seeing pictures on facebook and hearing their voices at » read on
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Majka is president of the weACT student association, which promotes sustainable lifestyle within students, by providing a community-based support for changing everyday habits (www.weact.ethz.ch). Currently she works as an intern on carbon footprints of consumer products at South Pole Carbon. Recently she graduated from ETH Zürich in Environmental Science, specializing in Human-Environment Systems. During her thesis she addressed the transition of the present society towards one based on a closed-loop economy, supported by cyclic material flows. Majka is very exited about being at the WRF 2011, because it is a unique opportunity to gain direct inputs from the top actors of global resource management. Born in the Swiss italian canton, having Swiss-German and Polish roots, she loves multicultural environments, traveling and playing volleyball.