English Abstracts
Here you will find the English abstracts of all articles.
Friedrich Hagedorn: Sustainability on TV – Challenging and Popular?
In the preface of a recent publication on "Medialization of Sustainability", the winner of the 2008 German Environmental Award, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, notes that "conventional environmental communication" has been in a state of crisis for several years. "On German TV, environmental programs are increasingly disappearing or relegated to unfavorable slots. Newspapers and magazines employ fewer and fewer environmental journalists."
Steffen Grimberg: Sustainability and Media – A Misunderstanding?
"Sustainability" is not an easy topic for the established media to deal with. The word as such is unwieldy and the nice explanation that the underlying concept has its origins in 17th century forestry in the Electorate of Saxony does not tend to spark a great deal of enthusiasm either.
Gesa Lüdecke: Informal Learning for Sustainability
Education and lifelong learning are two terms which are considered to be of central importance in the context of institutionalizing sustainable development in our society. The media, as social places of learning, observe and communicate social transformation processes. Simultaneously, they contribute to the transfer of knowledge as they participate in processes related to education for sustainable development through their coverage of these issues.
Interview with Volker Angres
Volker Angres, Editor in Chief of the Environmental Affairs Department of ZDF talks to us about communicating sustainability issues and the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development on TV.
Interview with Rainer Wemcken
Rainer Wemcken, CEO of the television production company Grundy UFA, talks about conveying ethical values and sustainability issues in daily soaps.
Claudia Langer: Communities in Web 2.0 – An Ambassador of Sustainability
For more than a year we have been experiencing and learning on a daily basis what it means to create a community focusing on real issues and what an enormous impact it has as an ambassador of a sustainable lifestyle. People who would like to live more sustainably and who would like to make this world more sustainable meet at utopia.de.
Georg May: blickpunkt-tv – a TV Magazine for Sustainability
The TV station "h1 – Fernsehen aus Hannover" dedicates a weekly program entitled blickpunkt-tv to sustainability issues. Blickpunkt Magazin is managed by the "Projektwerkstatt Umwelt und Entwicklung e.V.", an association that engages in educational work related to the environment, development and migration using the digital media TV, radio and internet.
Karin-Simone Fuhs: Design for a Sustainable Global Society
It is the declared aim of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development to leverage learning processes to promote social change. Designers should have a keen interest in change processes as they are in a position to make notable contributions to promoting these processes and to ensuring that these issues are communicated and an exchange of views can take place.
Michael Schwager: KLASSE! – Stressing Like a Real Reporter
Doing research and publishing your findings can be pretty stressful, as a group of secondary school students found out when, after having conducted some analyses on the water of the river Ems, they accused local farmers of polluting the river with nitrite. Following the farmers’ vehement protests the students had to backpedal. In the process, they learned a lot about water analyses and journalism – all thanks to KLASSE!
Media Partnership with Deutsche Welle for the UNESCO World Conference
On the occasion of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which will launch the second half of the UN Decade, Deutsche Welle and the German UNESCO Commission have concluded a media partnership. The conference, which is organized by UNESCO and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in cooperation with the German UNESCO Commission, will take place in from 31 March to .
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