Anna just finished a Bachelor in History and Politics at the University of Oxford and will start a Master in Public Policy in Sept 2013 at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She is half German/Swiss and half Chinese and grew up in Zurich. Her particular interests are environmental policy, Chinese politics, international law and human rights. She wrote her thesis on China's climate change policies. Anna has worked for the Swiss think tank Avenir Suisse and the new Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research. During her time in Oxford she was the President of the European Affairs Society and organized a youth exchange program with 7 European countries. She enjoyes travelling, the great outdoors, new people, literature, karate and music.
Essential to all life, phosphor glows in the dark and is found in bones and teeth. We need it in our food in order to survive, we need it in our fields to grow food. And we are running out of it.
An interview with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, “Resources Guru” and co-president of the Club of Rome.
Walking through the Swedish woods near the village Harads and the Lule river you might chance upon what resembles an oversized bird’s nest.
Dainar rarely smiles and doesn’t seem to notice us much as we ride behind him through the endless grasslands. We’re in Kyrgyzstan, and excited to start a three-day horse trek into the mountains. Dainar is our guide – a very serious and quiet guide. He is twelve.
In this WRF-series, Studentreporters are catching conference attendees during coffee break to ask them about what they do and who they are. This time: Dr. Lakshimi Raghupathy from India.
“Living sustainably yourself is certainly important”, says Martin Lehmann, adding that he tries to set a good example by using mainly the bicycle and train to move around. De Leeuw believes that the WRF conference attendees will more than compensate for their emissions due to coming here by being “messengers to the world”.
Are people in colder, more northern regions more depressed than those in sunny, southern countries? The story is not that simple, studies suggest.