oikos Conference 2007

Agenda

Wednesday, 17 October (oikos Alumni Evening)

19.00

Growth: Why? How much? Where to?
(in german language)

Hans-Christoph Binswanger, Professor em. for Macroeconomics, University of St.Gallen

20.00

Dinner & Alumni get together

 

Thursday, 18 October

8.00

Registration and Warm Up
Coffee and Gipfeli
Local Chapter Fair open to visit

9.00

Welcome
Nina Hug, President oikos International
Regula Kramer, President oikos St.Gallen

9.30

Limits to Growth: perspective on the last 20 years

The Growth Paradigm – Definition, Origins and Present Trends

  • Thomas Schauer, Club of Rome
  • Fritz Hinterberger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute

Between Confrontation and Alignment – Changes of the Ecological Mindset over the last two Decades

  • Claude Martin, former Director General WWF

 

11.00

Break

11.30

Demand for Growth – The Logic of Markets and Human Psychology
Is there a growth imperative in modern economies?
Mathias Binswanger, University of Solothurn, oikos Foundation

12.15

Lunch

14.15

Parallel Workshop Session I
Particpants may choose one out of the ten offered workshop perspectives
1. Innovation Perspective
2. Energy Perspective
3. Macroeconomic Perspective
4. Development Perspective
5. Resource Perspective
6. Investment Perspective
7. Global Governance Perspective
8. Sustainable Enterprise Perspective
9. Sociological Perspective
10. Communications Perspective

17.00

Break

17.15

A Global Common Vision towards a World in Balance
Frithjof Finkbeiner, Global Marshall Plan Initiative
Moderated by: Martin Herrndorf, CSCP

18.15

Transfer to Dinner

19.00

Dinner at Hotel Ekkehard
Reflections by oikos Alumni
Paschen von Flotow
Alexander Barkawi

 

 Friday, 19 October

8.00

Welcome and Warm up
Coffee and Gipfeli

9.00

Smart growth – designing indicators, building institutions

 

Meaningful indicators, alternatives to the GDP

  • Mathis Wackernagel, Global Foot Print Network

Required institutions

  • Harry Lehmann, Umweltbundesamt

10.00

Break

10.15

Workshop Session II

13.00

Lunch

14.00

Open Space Session
Questions leading to the future

16.45

Wander around break

17.15

Visions 27 – Scenarios for the next two decades
Outlining the most positive scenarios for the next 20 years and the conditions to make them happen.
Alois Flatz, Zouk Ventures
Othmar Schwank, Infras

Alexander Nick, IMD Lausanne
Helena Malisova, ETHsustainability, oikos Bratislava

Moderated by: Claude Siegenthaler, Hosei University Tokyo, oikos Advisor

18.00

Conference closing & Apéro

oikos – students for sustainable economics and management