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03FEB 2022
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Waste not, want not
We separate our waste for recycling, choose returnable bottles over single-use bottles and avoid plastic packaging wherever we can. Even though a lot of people have started to think differently and change their habits, we are still producing far too much waste and not recycling enough, with drastic consequences for people and the environment. According […]
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03FEB 2022
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Life after the use by date
The old box of medicine lingering at the back of the medicine cabinet is a familiar sight. Often, it is old enough to be thrown away. In Germany, 30,000 tonnes of medicine are sold every year. There are no exact figures on how much of it is discarded, but experts estimate approximately 120 grammes per […]
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03FEB 2022
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Sailing against the wind
The objective pursued by the German government with the energy transition is clear: the energy supply should switch to renewable energies and primary energy consumption be halved by 2050. Fossil energy sources, such as oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, should give way to renewable sources, that is, solar and wind energy, hydropower, biomass […]
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03FEB 2022
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Green Energy
Expanding the supply of renewable energy is a decisive factor in ensuring the success of the energy transition. While the proportion of renewable energy used to generate electricity has successfully risen from six percent in 2000 to currently over 40 percent, there is still a very long way to go if we want to achieve […]
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03FEB 2022
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Digitalisation: A drain on resources?
In the early years of digitalisation, hardly anyone could imagine the impact information technology would have on our daily lives. In the 1940’s, IBM chairman Thomas Watson predicted, ‘I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.’ Nowadays, if you add together the computers, tablets and smartphones in any typical two-person household in […]
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03FEB 2022
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Is the price right?..
Everyday shopping for food is a vivid way to illustrate many fundamental principles of the social market economy in a liberal society. As consumers, we are free to choose between a specialist shop, a supermarket or a discount store or to order our goods online. Companies, in turn, opt for those distribution channels that suit […]
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03FEB 2022
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Brave new working world
Does working when we like really work for us? When the early riser takes a first short break at 9.00 in the morning and sleepy head is just getting up. Because my laptop attaches me to my company like an umbilical cord, I can work in the kitchen, at my desk at home or on […]
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03FEB 2022
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Vanishing in an instant
I woke up somewhere I had never been before. An endless corridor, the floor, the walls, even the ceiling all tiled in white, even the grout between the polished squares barely visible in the snow-white glare. Innumerable white panelled doors led off from this unreal tube. I couldn’t begin to see the end of the […]
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03FEB 2022
Outreach und Alumni
Interview: Preventing and treating obesity using cold sensation
Nutritional insecurity is the biggest concern worldwide. It has two extremes, one is malnutrition/undernutrition and other is overnutrition/obesity. According to WHO’s The World Health Statistics, non- communicable diseases (obesity, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc) are the prime cause of huge manual and economic losses. Obesity is invariably associated with other metabolic complications like type 2 […]Nutritional insecurity is the biggest concern worldwide. It has two extremes, one is malnutrition/undernutrition and other is overnutrition/obesity. According to WHO’s The World Health Statistics, non- communicable diseases (obesity, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc) are the prime cause of huge manual and economic losses. Obesity is invariably associated with other metabolic complications like type 2 […]
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