Dimitrios currently distributes his time among his Management, Technology & Economics studies in ETH Zurich and academic politics within the MTEc dept. and respective student organization. He also keeps a keen eye on the situation in Europe and his homeland, Greece, political, economic or otherwise, is carried away by the strong entrepreneurial wind blowing over Zurich and is deeply concerned with questions of -un-sustainability and not only its implications for technology and the economy, but also its deep intertwinement with matters of education, human civilization and well-being. His free time is entirely caught up in -fantasizing about- playing blues guitar, listening to- and studying music, following European basketball and reading, mostly historical novels and crime fiction.
Tracking the CO2 footprint of a smartphone today is a complex task, so sustainability experts have been turning to more comprehensive methods such as the Life Cycle Assessment. But is that enough?
World Resources Forum 2013 – Davos. In a 3-day agenda captured by politicians, scientific researchers and academics, Solitaire Townsend’s talk “The Naked Environmentalist: How Sex Will Save Us” stood out like blood on white sheets.
Every time he visits Davos for his holiday, 84-year-old Werner Steinert from Germany spends his mornings playing the organ at the local Evangelist Church.
The Building Man cooperative, dedicated to transforming places in natural decay, makes the dilapidated Bodenham Manor estate their first ever large-scale, entirely crowdfunded project.