Culture is the key to sustainable development | Monika Griefahn | TEDxBonn

At TEDxBonn Monika Griefahn talks about culture as a key to sustainable development. Dr. Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany, where she was Co-Director from 1980 to 1983, organizing campaigns against chemical pollution of oceans and rivers. From 1984 to 1990, Monika Griefahn was the first woman to serve on the International Board of Greenpeace. From 1990 to 1998, she was Environment Minister in Lower Saxony in Gerhard Schröder's cabinet. She was subsequently a member of the German Bundestag (1998-2009). Then as now, she campaigned for a new energy policy: for renewable energies and the phasing out of nuclear energy, as well as a broad improvement of products according to Cradle to Cradle (C2C) and corresponding production processes. Monika Griefahn is head of the advisory board of the NGO Cradle to Cradle. C2C NGO links business, science, education, politics and civil society. The school of thought of Cradle to Cradle is that one can be a beneficial organism and part of nature. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx