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Hi, I’m Michael. After years as an engineer and corporate manager, I founded my own consulting firm focused on sustainability solutions. Since retiring, I’ve been tackling puzzles that align seemingly conflicting interests and discovering win-win strategies with my clients. I also support a project dedicated to ocean ecology. My wife Karin and my son Alex were the first to suggest a podcast for me. As a natural optimist and father of two wonderful kids, I tend to resist gloomy predictions about our future. We probably live in the best world we ever had, with the promise of making a ...

Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary - just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past 50 years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilities and complex interior lives of plants.

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a fascinating examination of the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. Seeds of Hope takes us from Goodall's home in England to her home-away-from-home in Africa, deep inside...

Handelsblatt Green & Energy ist der neue Podcast mit Fakten, Trends und Kontroversen rund um Nachhaltigkeit, Klima und Energiewende. Gemeinsam mit Expert:innen aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik diskutieren wir die Herausforderungen und Chancen rund um die Themen Nachhaltigkeit, Klima und Energie. Wie kann man den Konkurrenz- und Kostendruck eines globalen Industrieunternehmens mit nachhaltigen Wertschöpfungsketten in Einklang bringen? Und wie stellen sich Wissenschaftler eine Gesellschaft vor, die keine fossilen Rohstoffe mehr verbraucht? Diesen und weiteren Fragen gehen unsere ...