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@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ So far, I've moved around a bit: born in Austria, toddler years on Huntington Be <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="openConcept(event, 'Tackling Climate Change');"> <div class="w3-third tablink w3-bottombar w3-hover-light-grey w3-padding">Tackling Climate Change</div> </a> - <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="openConcept(event, 'Journaling Thoughts');"> - <div class="w3-third tablink w3-bottombar w3-hover-light-grey w3-padding">Journaling Thoughts</div> + <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="openConcept(event, 'Having Miscellaneous Fun');"> + <div class="w3-third tablink w3-bottombar w3-hover-light-grey w3-padding">Having Miscellaneous Fun</div> </a> </div> @@ -81,34 +81,37 @@ So far, I've moved around a bit: born in Austria, toddler years on Huntington Be </div> <div id="Tackling Climate Change" class="w3-container concept" style="display:none"> - <h2></h2> - <p class=w3-left-align> I am a strong believer in achieving goals together. More broadly, I see life as a communal process of creating. That perspective makes me happy, at the very least. Hence, my main goal in life is to bring people together around shared values that emerge from and change through conversation. - So far, my efforts in this respect have been centered mostly around the theme of climate change. + <h2></h2> + <p class=w3-left-align> I am a strong believer in achieving goals together. More broadly, I see life as a communal process of creating. That perspective makes me happy, at the very least. Hence, my main goal in life is to bring people together around shared values that emerge from and change through conversation. + So far, my efforts in this respect have been centered mostly around the theme of climate change. <br> <br> Here is a summary of previous projects during my undergrad at ETH, Zurich: <ul class=w3-left-align> <li>During my first semesters, I became increasingly involved in the <a href="https://ssc.ethz.ch/"> Student Sustainability Commission</a>. There, my work focused on creating a community to bundle the motivation of individual students from all disciplines.</li> <li> Similarly, I asked the more specific question of <i>"How can physicists contribute to solving the climate crisis?"</i>. To generate discussion in our own physics department, I organized the <a href="https://www.phys.ethz.ch/the-department/sustainability/nhw2021.html"> Sustainability Week @DPHYS 2021</a> and launched an <a href="https://www.phys.ethz.ch/news-and-events/internal-news/d-phys-intern/2021/06/klima-ich-habe-keine-zeit-gilt-nicht.html">interview series</a>.</li> - <li>I also discussed in depth how to achieve a net-zero university with staff from all corners of ETH - the finance and infrastructure department, ETH Foresight and the ETH Air Travel Project, professors working on carbon capture... These discussions converged in my final semester in spring 2021, when we wrote the internal white paper <i>ETH NettoNull</i> for the Executive Board. <a href="https://ethz.ch/services/en/news-and-events/internal-news/archive/2021/12/eth-sustainability-to-be-realigned.html">First steps</a> towards its implementation are being made. (Personally, I hope the board will be more bold in coming months)</li> + <li>I also discussed in depth how to achieve a net-zero university with staff from all corners of ETH - the finance and infrastructure department, ETH Foresight and the ETH Air Travel Project, professors working on carbon capture... These discussions converged in my final semester in spring 2021, when we wrote the internal white paper <i>ETH NettoNull</i> for the Executive Board. <a href="https://ethz.ch/services/en/news-and-events/internal-news/archive/2021/12/eth-sustainability-to-be-realigned.html">First steps</a> towards its implementation are being made. - <li>Before graduating from ETH, I wanted to pass this conviction on to future students. Hence, I pulled together <a href="./assets/EarTH_Magazine.pdf">The EarTH Magazine - Edition Cooperation</a>. Stories of teamwork, compiled from all levels of ETH. - <br> - </ul> + <li>Before graduating from ETH, I wanted to pass this conviction on to future students. Hence, I pulled together <a href="./assets/EarTH_Magazine.pdf">The EarTH Magazine - Edition Cooperation</a>. Stories of teamwork, compiled from all levels of ETH. + </ul> <p class=w3-left-align>A lesson I learnt overall: <i>Culture eats strategy for breakfast. (Peter Drucker)</i> </p> - <p class=w3-left-align> Now, I am building on these experiences at my current home at Perimeter Institute, Canada. Together with researchers and admin, I formed a climate action working group last year. Our aim was and is to generate an internal culture of "every job is a climate job", even when you´re working at a theoretical physics institute. - <br> - In the new year, I'm excited to organize events together with PI's anti-racism group exploring how to balance two themes: On the one hand, solving climate change through technological innovation such as new energy sources. On the other hand, integrating indigenous knowledge and rewilding the world, thus making the connection between climate change and biodiversity. I much enjoyed and can highly recommend the following books in this regard: - <ul class=w3-left-align> + <p class=w3-left-align> Now, I am building on these experiences at my current home at Perimeter Institute, Canada. Together with researchers and admin, I formed a climate action working group last year. Our aim was and is to generate an internal culture of "every job is a climate job", even when you´re working at a theoretical physics institute. + <br> + In the new year, I'm excited to organize events together with PI's anti-racism group exploring how to balance two themes: On the one hand, solving climate change through technological innovation such as new energy sources. On the other hand, integrating indigenous knowledge and rewilding the world, thus making the connection between climate change and biodiversity. I much enjoyed and can highly recommend the following books in this regard: + <ul class=w3-left-align> <li>All We Can Save (Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K. Wilkinson, 2021)</li> <li>A Life on Our Planet (David Attenborough, 2020)</li> <li>Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013)</li> + </ul> + </p> </p> - </p> + + <p class=w3-left-align> + Feel free to also take a read of the <em>Open Climate Edition</em> of the Branch magazine - a colorful collection of pieces to which I contributed a physics' student perspective in the article <a href="https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/the-fermi-problem-of-climate-change/"><em>The Fermi Problem of Climate Change</em></a> (August 2022). It's a personal attempt to get to grips with the orders of magnitude of carbon emissions by putting the typical footprint of a physicist in perspective of the global problem. </div> - <div id="Journaling Thoughts" class="w3-container concept" style="display:none"> + <div id="Having Miscellaneous Fun" class="w3-container concept" style="display:none"> <h2></h2> <p class=w3-left-align>A provoking book, a stirring conversation. Thoughts to rework and forge into a new bundle, to be passed on to the next curious mind! |