News / 10.07.2024

These days, many people and institutions are looking back on the flood in the Ahr valley in 2021. As part of the cooperation project between the Environmental Learning School+, Thinking Circular® and the Ahrweiler District Adult Education Centre, Stefan Müllers, Technical Director of the Ahrweiler waste management company, and Christian Hofeditz, Director of the Ahrweiler District Adult Education Centre, looked back on the past year in particular. They focused on their own activities in the Environmental Learning School+ and the events organised with the adult education centre on...

News, News / 14.02.2023

Sustainability in purchasing or in tenders holds enormous potential for climate protection. Public clients in particular have a special obligation to do a good job when using 470 billion euros of taxpayers' money from the federal budget. The "Active for Sustainable Public Procurement" initiative aims to leverage this potential and give a boost to the German government's "Procurement Transformation Package 2023".  In principle, sustainable procurement is not a popular topic. It is regarded as cumbersome and complicated The realization that many administrative staff are overwhelmed by tendering procedures...

Unkategorisiert / 25.10.2022

A new standards compass provides guidance on sustainable seals, industry standards and multi-stakeholder initiatives. This makes it easier for small companies to identify which standards fit their sustainability management. A large and diverse number of standards have been developed with different approaches to sustainability. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular often do not have the time and resources to gain an overview themselves and make qualified decisions about which standards can support them in their processes. The Standards Compasscomparison tool is now intended to provide clarity and orientation...

News / 10.08.2021

#Save the date October 19 / 20, 2021 Discussing the decarbonisation of global transport, the event will provide opportunities to discuss solutions to the industry’s challenges in both a online and in-person hybrid event format. My session is on the question of sustainable EV for the future. With a mix of high-level, informative presentations and panels, a stellar cast of speakers and audience members with deal-making capacity, the 2021 edition of the event will again be a success. I hope to see you there!  ...

News / 07.06.2021

Only 0.15% of companies in Germany are oriented sustainably. This is confirmed by a new study, commissioned by the German Council for Sustainable Development. That is a total of only 5,837 companies, 18% of which are freelance, science, technology or service companies, 22% manufacturing and 10% trade. 3 million companies are not sustainable, are not interested in sustainability, or are not familiar with the term sustainability. This is a lot of room for improvement and reveals the implementation difficulties that exist. Yet some framework conditions and specifications have long been...

News / 01.06.2021

As we know today, climate change is man-made. The question of how we behave therefore determines our future and that of our planet. When market researchers categorize people's behavior, they develop so-called personas. Personas also exist to describe people who behave in a sustainable way. However, we don't trust any market research unless it has been done or verified by ourselves. That's why we have examined common personas (named Hannah, Tom, Dori and Ulrike) from the Sustainable Living 2020 study in more detail. For verification we have set...

News / 22.04.2021

In Germany the market share of green products was about 11% in 2017 (latest numbers; that’s 139 Billion EUR of 1,300 Billion EUR GDP in total). The goal of a higher market share for green products is to reach 32% in 2030 (= 404 Billion EUR). Did you know? Green energy consumption has increased by 50% since 2011. After introducing trustworthy ecolabels, sales of green products triple within one year. 82% of the 15–29-year-olds are currently revolutionizing the food market through eating less or no meat. 33% of them...

News / 02.03.2021

In March 2021, Metropolitan Verlag, Regensburg, will publish the fourth Sustainability Yearbook. It contains valuable impulses to face the growing challenges of resource and climate protection and to initiate a transformation to the circular economy and climate neutrality in the economy. In addition to articles on new aspects and developments, the Yearbook contains best-practice examples from companies, presents networks and organizations, and provides an overview of competitions and certificates in the field of sustainability. With "Homo Circularis - Of circularity and reality. And what it all has to do with...

News / 06.11.2018

After her term as Minister for Economy, Climate Protection, Energy and State Planning in Rhineland-Palatinate, in 2017 Eveline Lemke seized the opportunity to reposition herself personally and professionally. Thus she founded the consulting company "Eveline Lemke Sustainability and Circular Economy Consulting".  Together with the agency for branding and design p21 by Yvonne Kamp in Grafschaft, a complex brand development was started aiming at systemic and science based consultancy for sustainability and circular economy. As a result the green multiverse "Thinking Circular®" was registered as a trademark at the European Union...

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