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The world is suffocating in plastics – film “Plastic Fantastic” opens nature film festival

4. April 2025

Thanks to speaker Michael Braungart, the opening of the third Lüneburg Heath Nature Film Festival provided creative ideas to combat the flood of plastic in the sea. “There are between 1400 and 40000 pieces of micro- and nanoplastics in an oyster. If we eat enough oysters, the oceans will be…

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New in the cinema and well worth seeing: ‘Petra Kelly – Act now’

17. September 2024

Insults, sexist remarks and death threats: What women (and men) experience on social media today is nothing new. In the film “Petra Kelly – Act now”, it becomes clear how the activist was already exposed to constant verbal abuse in the 1980s, before the internet existed. This is one of…

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Deutschunterricht im Goethe-Institut in Hongkong.

Insights into a China that can be visited again: trip with the Economic Forum of the Social Democracy

22. July 2024

China maintained its position as Germany’s largest trading partner last year, just ahead of the USA. At 253.1 billion euros, imports and exports were slightly higher than trade in goods with the USA (252.3 billion euros). The trip, which was organized by the Economic Forum of the Social Democratic Party…

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Gebäude in Georgien

Georgia – a country at a crossroads

10. June 2024

One can only be torn. On the one hand, while we are in Georgia with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DAGP), tens of thousands of people have been on the streets for over a month protesting against the law “on foreign agents”. It was passed on May 28 against…

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Monika Griefahn and author Martin Walker.

An evening with Martin Walker

22. June 2022

How surprised we are, the participants of an exploratory trip about biodiversity, when in the restaurant “Chez Julien” in Paunat in the Périgord, the writer and journalist Martin Walker actually appears. Martin Walker is Scottish and has had a varied professional life. He is the author of the million-selling Bruno…

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Federal Order of Merit for Monika Griefahn (with Olaf Lies and Rainer Rempe)

Monika Griefahn receives the Federal Order of Merit

31. July 2018

Olaf Lies freely admitted that he didn’t have the easiest of jobs. Monika Griefahn’s “successor-successor-successor”, as the current environment minister of the German federal state of Lower Saxony smirkingly described himself, said: “You can’t list all of Monika Griefahn’s merits – you can only mention the highlights.” Lies was speaking…

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Die Gewinner und Oganisatoren der Ökofilmtour 2018.

Awards for “eco-films”: the secret lifelines of trees revealed

24. May 2018

Winners and organizers of the eco film tour 2018. It is a very gratifying task to serve on the jury of the Ökofilmtour (“eco film tour”) festival for films about nature and the environment. Every year I get to watch around 40 great documentary and feature…

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Klaus Staeck

The epitome of political art turns 80 – congratulations Klaus Staeck!

10. April 2018

Congratualtions by Uwe-Karsten Heye and Monika Griefahn, Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin. Foto: Florian Gaertner/photothek.net “Nothing is finished” – that’s the motto under which Klaus Staeck invited guests to celebrate his 80th birthday at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin. More precisely it was the Social Democratic Party’s executive, who organised…

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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret Atwood

“Trees wouldn’t vote for Trump…”
(A review of the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair)

3. December 2017

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to Margaret AtwoodPhoto: Monika Griefahn “Trees wouldn’t vote for Trump…” – that’s how the forester and author Peter Wohlleben summarised his view on the current political landscape. Trees, he says, know that they can only survive as part of a group….

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Monika Griefahn in 2015 at the award ceremony of the German "Computerspielpreis".Photo (archives): Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Quinke Networks

New consensus after a long debate: “Computer games are a cultural asset”

28. September 2017

Monika Griefahn in 2015 at the award ceremony of the German “Computerspielpreis”.Photo (archives): Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Quinke Networks Just ahead of the recent general elections the German Cultural Council issued a gratifying news release: “The Chancellor and the Secretaries-General of the CDU, SPD, Greens, the…

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Emotion Award – A Prize for women who inspire

6. July 2017

Photograph: Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Emotion.award Dr. Alexandra Widmer? Heike Langguth? Annette Pascoe? None of them are names necessarily known to everyone. And yet all of these women have recently received the Emotion Award in Germany. It’s an award that recognised women who inspire others. For…

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Save the Date: Cradle to Cradle Congress 2025


On March 13 and 14, 2025, the Cradle to Cradle celebrated its annual congress at the TU Berlin with about 1000 guests. Please read more about the congress in my blog article here. And save the date for the 2026 edition: The congress will take place on September 17-18, 2026.


eFuels

Synthetic fuels are one of the decisive factors for the energy transition away from fossile fuels. That is why I am committed to the further development and practical use of eFuels and became a member of the Sounding Board of the eFuel Alliance in May 2021.
English website of the eFuel Alliance


Climate committee

Constituent session: Photo: City of Buchholz / Helms

Until 2025 I was chairwoman of the advisory board of the climate committee at my former place of residence in Buchholz in the Nordheide. The city has set itself the goal of becoming climate neutral and there is still a lot to do to achieve this. The committee advises the municipal  administration on fundamental questions of climate policy.
To the article on the Buchholz website (in German)



Right Livelihood Award

They stand up against violence and climate change and address the most pressing questions of our time: The 2024 recipients of the Right Livelihood Award are: Joan Carling of Philippines, Issa Amro/Youth Against Settlements from Palestine, Anabela Lemos/Justiça Ambiental! from Mozambique und Forensic Architecture from the UK. Read more about the “Alternative Nobel Prize” here.


Federal Order of Merit

After the award ceremony, Olaf Lies, Monika Griefahn and Rainer Rempe stand together. Photo: Frank Ossenbrink

After the award ceremony, Olaf Lies, Monika Griefahn and Rainer Rempe stand together. Photo: Frank Ossenbrink

Our CEO Dr. Monika Griefahn received the Federal Order of Merit. Please read more about her biography and about the award ceremony in our blog.


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