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+====== Introduction. "Competences for Sustainable Development" ======
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+==== Core Questions ====
+  * What are “Competences for Sustainable Development”?
+  * What do we try to teach in the present course?
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+In 2015 the UN agreed upon 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
+that aim to [[https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/page/sdgs-17-goals-transform-world|transform our world]] to substantially improve the living conditions of live on Earth by 2030.
 The Introduction to the [[https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda|2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development]] states
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 We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030.  …
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+However, not everybody agrees that we are successful in this endeavor.
+  * In his [[https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_how_we_can_make_the_world_a_better_place_by_2030?subtitle=en|2015 Ted Talk]] the economist [[https://www.socialprogress.org/about-us/who-we-are/|Michael Green]] argued that the goals can be met. However, <wrap em>not with business as usual</wrap>.
   * In 2019 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191003235826/https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit|Greta Thunberg complained at the UN Climate Action Summit]] that "You have <wrap em>stolen my dreams</wrap> and my childhood with your empty words.[…] And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"
-  * Also in that year the award-winning writer and journalist [[https://naomiklein.org|Naomi Klein]] argues in her book [[https://naomiklein.org/on-fire/|On Fire]] that the transition to a better world will require a <wrap em>Green New Deal</wrap>, and she popularizes this idea with am [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ|Emmy nominated video “Message from the Future”]].
+  * Also in 2019 the award-winning writer and journalist [[https://naomiklein.org|Naomi Klein]] argues in her book [[https://naomiklein.org/on-fire/|On Fire]] that the transition to a better world will require a <wrap em>Green New Deal</wrap>, and she popularizes this idea with am [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ|Emmy nominated video “Message from the Future”]].
   * In 2020 the Euopean Union implements an [[https://www.politico.eu/article/the-commissions-green-deal-plan-unveiled/|European Green Deal]], and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that this will be "<wrap em>Europe’s man on the moon</wrap> moment.”
   * Previous students of the module argued that "Sustainable Development" is an <wrap em>oxymoron</wrap>.
-In the introductory lecture I hope to learn about the attendents point of view,
+In this introductory lecture I will discuss the aims and the setup of the course:
-and we will discuss the aims and the setup of the course.
+  * What are "Competences for Sustainable Development"?
+  * What do we try to teach in the present course?
+I also hope to learn about the attendents <wrap em>own point of view and potential engagements</wrap>.
 ==== Literature ====
-  * **Climate and sustainability**
+=== Climate and sustainability ===
-    * Tim Flanney: //The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth// (Penguin, 2005)
-    * Naomi Klein: [[https://naomiklein.org/on-fire/|On Fire]]
+    * Rachel Carson (1962): [[https://archive.org/details/fp_Silent_Spring-Rachel_Carson-1962|Silent Spring]]. Houghton Mifflin.
-    * Gerald O. Barney, ed.: //The Global 2000 Report to the President// (US Government Printing Office, 1980); bzw. die dt. Übersetzung //Global 2000// (Zweitausendeins, 1980)
+    * Hannah Arendt (1963). [[https://archive.org/details/eichmanninjerusa0000unse_y2f9|Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil]]. New York: Viking Press.
+    * 	Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1973): [[https://archive.org/details/smallisbeautiful00schu_0|Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered]]. Blond & Briggs
+    * James E. Lovelock (1979). [[https://archive.org/details/gaianewlookatlif00loverich/page/n5/mode/2up|Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth]]. New York: Oxford University Press.
+    * Gerald O. Barney, ed. (1980): [[https://archive.org/details/global2000report0000unse/page/n9/mode/2up|The Global 2000 Report to the President]] (US Government Printing Office); bzw. die dt. Übersetzung //Global 2000// (Zweitausendeins, 1980)
+    * Rebecca Solnit (2004): [[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781560255772|Hope in the Dark. Untold Histories. Wild Possibilities]]. New York: Nation Books.
+    * Tim Flanney (2005): [[https://archive.org/details/weathermakersour0000flan|The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth]]. London: Penguin Press
+    * Bjørn Lomborg (2007): //Cool It! The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming//. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
+    * Naomi Klein (2019): [[https://naomiklein.org/on-fire/|On Fire]] //The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.// New York: Simon & Schuster.
+    * Clair Cane Miller (1 Dec 2018): [[https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-be-more-empathetic.html|How to Be More Empathetic]] (New York Times)
+=== German Perspectives ===
+    * Theodor W. Adorno (Talk on 6 Apr 1967): //Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus//. in (2019): //Collected Works//. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
+    * Philipp Blom (2017): //Was auf dem Spiel steht//. München: Carl Hanser.
+    * [[https://klaus-doerre.de|Klaus Dörre]] (14 Jan 2022): [[https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/green-new-deals-2022/345723/alle-reden-vom-klima/|Alle reden vom Klima Perspektiven sozial-ökologischer Transformation]]. in //Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte  3-4/2021//. Themenheft zu [[https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/green-new-deals-2022/|Green New Deals]]
+    * Ulrike Herrmann (2022): //Das Ende des Kapitalismus//. Köln: Kiepenhauer & Witsch.
+=== Web Resources ===
+    * [[https://sdgs.un.org|Social Development pages]] of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and their [[https://sdgs.un.org/goals|pages spelling out the goals]]
+    * World Economic Forum (13 Jan 2021): [[https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-be-more-empathetic.html|14 innovative projects helping to save the planet and make the world a better place]]
+    * Social Progress Imperative (2023):  [[https://www.socialprogress.org/2023-just-transition-score/|2023 Just Transition Score]]
+    * Global Social Progress Index (2024): [[https://www.socialprogress.org/2024-social-progress-index/|2024 Social Progress Index]]
+    * [[https://www.iso20400.org|ISO standard on sustainable procurement]]
+    * University of Leipzig (2024): Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie und Nachhaltigkeitsbericht
+=== Understanding the scientific endeavor ===
+    * Robert Ehrlich (2001): //Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True//. Princeton: Princeton UP.
+    * Randall Munroe (2014): //What if?//. London: John Murray.
+    * Alvin E. Roth (2015): //Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design//. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
-  * **Understanding the scientific endeavor**
-    * Randall Munroe: //What if?// (John Murray, London, 2014)
-    * Robert Ehrlich: //Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True// (Princeton UP, Princeton, 2001)
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-Talk  on  17. October 2024 — [[.:start|Ringvorlesung in Winter Term 2024/25]]
+Talk  on  17 October 2024 — [[.:start|Ringvorlesung in Winter Term 2024/25]]
+~~DISCUSSION|Discussion and Feedback~~