On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker this unique anthology
presents thought-provoking texts from 1970 to 2013 spanning several disciplines and combining
science and practice. Among them are three Reports to the Club of Rome that Weizsäcker
lead-authored a new university curriculum system to promote interdisciplinary studies and a
proposal for a five-fold increase in resource productivity which would make it possible to
shut down nuclear and fossil power plants avoiding dangerous climate change impacts.
Weizsäcker is Co-President of the Club of Rome and Co-Chair of UNEP¿s Resource Panel. He has
served as a Professor of Biology President of Kassel Univ. Director of the UN Centre for
Science and Technology and of the Institute for European Environment Policy President of the
Wuppertal Institute for Climate Environment and Energy as a Member of the Bundestag as Chair
of its Environment Committee and as Dean of the Bren School for Environmental Science and
Management Univ. of California Santa Barbara USA.
