Universities as Learning Organizations for Sustainability? The Task of Climate Protection

2010 ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Florian Lüdeke-Freund ◽  
Simon Burandt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Climate Protection

Polityka klimatyczno-energetyczna Unii Europejskiej

2014 ◽  
pp. 104-121
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kułaga
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Climate And Energy Policy

The article is devoted to the subject of the goals of the climate and energy policy of the European Union, which can have both a positive, and a negative impact on the environmental and energy policies. Positive aspects are the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, diversification of energy supplies, which should improve Europe independence from energy imports, and increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the national energy system structures. On the other hand, overly ambitious targets and actions can lead to large losses for the economies of EU Member States. The article also highlights the realities prevailing in the international arena and noncompliance of international actors with global agreements on climate protection.

scholarly journals Learning in Struggle: Argentina’s New Worker Cooperatives as Transformative Learning Organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Vieta
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Worker Cooperatives

SummaryThis article considers Argentina’sempresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores(worker-recuperated enterprises, or ERTs) astransformative learning organizations. ERTs are illustrative of how workers’ conversions of capitalist firms into worker cooperatives—especially conversions emerging from troubled firms and in moments of deep socio-economic crises—transform workers (from managed employees to self-managed workers), work organizations (from capitalist businesses to labour-managed firms), and communities (from depleted to revitalized and self-provisioning localities).Theoretically, the study is grounded in class-struggle, workplace learning, and social action learning approaches. These theoretical perspectives help the study work through how workplace conversions by workers, when converting troubled investor-owned or proprietary firms into worker coops, act as catalysts for contesting workplace exploitation and capitalist crises, while also beginning to move beyond them by forging new social relations of production and exchange. In the case of Argentina’s ERTs, crises in the political economy and micro-economic crises at the point of production during the collapse of the neoliberal model at the turn of the millennium heightened workers’ self-awareness of their situations of exploitation and motivated collective action. As a result, new worker cooperatives were created that also stimulated the social, cultural, and economic renewal of surrounding communities.The study’s research method relies on extended case studies of four diverse ERTs, which included ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews. Observations of daily workflows were conducted, as well as interviews and informal conversations with founding and newer ERT workers. In a more structured portion of the interview protocol, key-informants were asked to reflect on how they had personally changed after being involved in the ERT, and how production practices and involvement with the community had transformed in the process of conversion.The article concludes by outlining how worker, organizational, and community transformations emerge from workers’ processes ofinformal learningandlearning in struggleas they collectively strive to overcome macro- and micro-economic crises and learn to become cooperators. This learning, the study shows, occurs in two ways:intra-cooperativelyvia informal workplace learning, andinter-cooperativelybetween workers from different ERTs and with surrounding communities. The self-management forged by ERTs thus embodies new, cooperative, and community-centered values and practices for these workers that, in turn, sketch out different possibilities for economic and productive life in Argentina.

scholarly journals Methanothermobacter — bedeutungsvoll für Wasser, Energie, Klima

BIOspektrum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Harald Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Protection

AbstractMethanogenic microbes live secretly in a kind of “parallel universe”, without light and oxygen. We can approach these microbes only by scientific means, but they are already of practical value for us and could — if we do not take care of efficient climate protection — even be of noticeable impact for our future world.

China's key role in climate protection

Energy ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Bach ◽  
Stefan Fiebig
Keyword(s):  
Climate Protection

GOING BEYOND TOTAL QUALITY: THE CHARACTERISTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND MEASURES OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Luthans ◽  
Michael J. Rubach ◽  
Paul Marsnik
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Total Quality
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