Between 7 and 9 March 2008, more than 60 participants gathered in Molkom, Sweden for the first LjusHus Seminar. LjusHus is a planned Nordic meetingplace for sustainable human development: bringing together environmental awareness with personal and social progress.
SEMINAR CLIP
Nic Marks
Nic Marks has been a New Economics Foundation (nef) associate since 2000. In 2006, Nic founded nef's centre for well-being. Nic was the co-author of the first edition of the UK Index of Sustainable Economics Welfare, which nef co-published in 1994. He has been a close associate of Manfred Max Neef, the Chilean Ecological Economist for over a decade and the Well-being programme is in part seeking to operationalise some of Max Neef’s ideas in the policy arena.
Chris Butters
Chris Butters is an architect specialising in sustainable planning and architecture. He is part of the GAIA architecture group in Oslo.
Johan Erlandsson
Johan is the founder of ecoprofile.se, a discussion forum on sustainable lifestyles. He is also a Phd student in environmental management.
John Higson
John Higson is a social entrepreneur, he is the founder of Street and Bondens Egen Marknad in Stockholm.
Jonathan Dawson
Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator based at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. He has spent 20 years working as a development consultant in Africa. Jonathan is also a gardener and a story-teller and is President of the Global Ecovillage Network.
Johannes Fruehmann
Johannes Fruehmann is a research scientist, working for the Sustainable Europe Research Institute in Vienna
Declan Kennedy
Declan Kennedy is the founder of the Permaculture Institute of Europe, Declan has helped to bring permaculture concepts into urban planning ... all ? and community design. He is also currently the Germany country coordinator for the Global Action Plan as well as chairman for the advisory board of Gaia University
Sandra Campe
Sandra Campe is an environmental activist, she lives at 'Sieben Linden' Ecovillage in Germany.
BTH Students
This interview features students of BTH Blekkinge Institute of Technology enroled in the Masters Class: strategic leadership towards sustainability.