The Great Transformation
Achieving global value creation within planetary boundaries requires reducing resource consumption and emissions through systemic changes that directly influence our lifestyles and consumption habits. Future generations are being confronted with challenges left behind by their ancestors. What could our common future look like? How can we build thriving communities and both common and personal wellbeing within planetary boundaries? Education must evolve into transformational learning, empowering individuals to critically reflect on their roles as consumers and the systemic drivers of environmental and social injustice. Developing the conditions and ensuring justice for such education are among my main interests.
But what does 'being human' within planetary boundaries look like? How will we live and work in the near and distant future? How will we nourish our families, and how can we redefine what it means to be human at all? We will have to develop ecosensitive lifestyles for ourselves and future generations, and find ways to engage peacefully with our planetary co-inhabitants – who seek the same right to thrive within their possibilities as humanity does. Gaining new ideas and visions of how such lifestyles could look, and how people can be inspired to socially experiment within their groups and communities, is one of the most urgent challenges of our time.
Ecosensitive Lifestyles
Environmental Awareness
While climate change has already dominated global headlines, awareness of the deep interconnections between all living things – and the importance of a healthy biosphere and biodiversity – is growing only slowly. But we need to face the fact that any human activity demands a tribute from our environment and the planetary systems that provide our biosphere with the life-friendly parameters that let planet Earth buzz with life. Creating the necessary awareness through environmental education, science communication and scientific storytelling is one of my greatest passions.
Direct, embodied experiences of nature can open powerful learning spaces for socio-ecological transformation. I explore how practices such as underwater breathwork, walking in forests, or attentive presence in everyday landscapes invite us to slow down, perceive differently, and reconnect with the more-than-human world. These moments of encounter can foster reflection, responsibility, and relational awareness – and help develop the ethical, emotional and imaginative capacities we need to live well within planetary boundaries. They also allow us to integrate scientific insights into what we often already do instinctively – and what intuitively supports our well-being and sense of belonging.
Nature Immersion
