Photo Gallery

Newly built tree house

Treehouse village Oaktown now is a forest clearing

Forest Strollers help erect tree house and barricades

Conference organized by the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Participants from all over Germany. Many economics students.

German satire TV show. Maybe soon about indoctrination in economics text books.

The sole author of “Neues aus der Anstalt”

Reflections on alternatives to neo-liberalism

There is more to economics than neo-liberalism

Researches on Indoctrination in Economics textbooks

at Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

director of economic studies at Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Beauty at the end of the tunnel

Studying at Lake Starnberg

sees nothing bad in neo-liberal indoctrination. “Students have to learn economic thinking”

Studying at Lake Starnberg

Final Panel

Tunnel with Light

Cautious about Indoctrination in economics textbooks

Reshaping Economics

chillaxing in conference break

Oppressed and exiled Turkish Authors

One sponsor of a panel discussion about exiled Turkish Authors: Turkish Arilines!

Frankfurter Buchmesse

A Tour of Frankfurt Bookfair

Mixed languages as part of corporate identity at the French Pavilion

Sebastian Fitzek, German bestselling speaks about his way to success.

Frankfurt Book Fair Opening Press Conference

Created by French Design Students: The Pavilion resembles a library

Heinrich Riethmüller, President of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Deutscher Börsenverein)

Guest of Honor: the French Language

Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair

Markus Dohle, CEO Penguin Random House

40.000 French books will be donated to African libraries after the fair.

Books and Non-Books

Francfort en Francais

Sunny weather for book worms

central place of the book fair with stages and food

Barbar Baig, Founder of the start-up WriteReader to increase children’s literacy

Children improve their literacy rate through the app of this start-up WriteRead.

Innovation Summit

Where art meets business

Frankfurter Buchmesse

Google’s approach to museums

Increasing the visiblity of women in the digital industry

Digital Media Women

AI art

AI robot teaches himself how to write manifestos and publishes 80 a day.

AI art

AI Art

AI Art

AI art

AI art

The meadow is private property of a forest supporter. RWE wants to buy it by all means and pushes for disappropriation.

Graffitis on the campervans are not always that friendly…

Only around 10 percent of the ancient forest are left.

Excavator and power plants. Coal conveyor belt in the foreground.

Coal Excavator with sunflowers

This used to be a forest – since the last ice age

Lignite turning into energy. The technology needs tax payers’ subventions. It is not profitable.

The conveyor belts transport the coal out of the pit so it arrives quickly in power plants in the background

The conveyor belts transport the coal out of the pit so it arrives quickly in power plants in the background

Nature’s strong will for survival!

Once upon a time there was a tree and a tree house on it…

Logged trees in Hambacher Forst

OnCe a mighty tree…

Logs from the last clearance. Open-cast lignite pit in the background

Tree Houses – Sanctuaries in Hambacher Forst

Well Equipped Sanctuaries

Another House in the Tree

Tree House in Hambacher Forst

Forest Community

Forest Community hard at work

Forest Community hard at work

Wonderful

Tree House Construction

Beauty in and out

Forest Art

Barricades at Hambacher Forst

The Hambacher Forst qualifies for protection through the EU by the Flora Fauna Habitat directive, but Germany didn’t ask the EU for protection, so the forest can freely be logged.

Rare combination of hornbeam, pedunculate oak and lily of the valley.

Forest Camp

Living Room in the Wood

Infrastructure on the Meadow

Colorful House on the Meadow

No Money for Coal

singing with police attention

Bikers cycled for over a week to reach the camp

Banner

Coal plants and wind energy

Connecting Movements Tent

the grey areas mark the open-cast lignite excavations

gathering tent

the grey areas mark the open-cast lignite excavations

Chill-out tent

Live cam in the mines

Live cam in the mines

Bilingual news ticker

Tents at camp

Police watching

Keep coal in the ground

open cast lignite excavator

see how small the car is?

Europe’s largest open pit lignite mine

eating, eating, eating

each shovel holds the content of a truck

OuishareFest

Co-creating a Regenerative World

OuishareFest 2017

Compost Toilets

Zero Waste

Compost Toilet

Tiny House

Cities of the World, Unite

Fitting in

Opening Session

Translations English-French

Festival Plan

Sitting Area

Break

Shadows of the Future

Cities of the World, Unite

Transparency

Schedule Economy Week

Kumarappa’s Economy of Permanence at Sustainable Livelyhood Institute with Ram

Pour Tous and Free Store – Auroville’s special grocery and clothes stores.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store Users’ Instructions

Products marked with the circle sign are grown in Auroville.

Members of this co-operative can “shop” here according to their monthly contribution and – if necessary – also beyond.

Sign in Pour Tous Distribution Center: Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness. (The Mother, 1968)

Are cookies meant to satisfy desires? In Auroville’s Pour Tous Distribution Center they are regarded as basic needs.

Pour Tous Co-operative – colloquially often referred to as Pour Tous Store.

Changing the goal of the economy: from MORE to BETTER

Auroville Paper Factory

The Pitchandikulam tree house – a place where ideas for fictional stories flow into me.

Owls in Temple in Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Chilling in a tree in Nadukuppam

Harvesting Crabs

Harvesting Crabs

Harvesting Crabs

Banjan tree

In a forrest in Tamil Nadu, Bioregion of Auroville

The Gulf of Bengal

Local fishermen in Gulf of Bengal

Roaring waves at the Gulf of Bengal

Stepping into the vast ocean of possibilities

Flower growing in a forest planted by the local community in Southern India

We learned to make bricks with a similar machine as seen in Kenya and then made our own arc.

Earth Institute: Architects at work

Earth unified in Earth Institute, Auroville. Samples from all corners of the planet.

Sacred Groves natural buildings

The Ladder House

The Ladder House in Sacred Groves: constructing creative, alternative housing with natural materials.

Sacred Groves natural buildings

Sacred Groves natural buildings

Scorpions cannot climb glass: scorpion protection for naturally built house

Aquaponic: plants eat fish poo instead of cow poo. Mjam…

Aquaponic

Pumpkin growing in red soil

basil growing in red soil

palm trees in Auro Orchard

Enjoying evening sun in Auro Orchard

Banjan tree

Meeting under Banjan Tree in Auro Orchard. This farm recently turned to organic farming.

Locally grown food in Solitude Farm. So delicious!!

Relaxing after lunch in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Palm tree in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Eager students of all ages in the Ecovillage Design Education Course

Papaya, Papaya!

Banana, Banana?

Pretty flower – who knows the name?

Cow placenta hanging in tree

Title Ecology Week

Opening Ceremony of Ecovillage Design Education Course

Opening Ceremony

The Ecodorm in Pitchandikulam Forest is our class room and dormitory

Schedule Social Week

Gaia Education Mandala of Sustainability

Schedule Economy Week

Kumarappa’s Economy of Permanence at Sustainable Livelyhood Institute with Ram

Pour Tous and Free Store – Auroville’s special grocery and clothes stores.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store: Aurovilians can bring an item and exchange it for another one.

Free Store Users’ Instructions

Products marked with the circle sign are grown in Auroville.

Members of this co-operative can “shop” here according to their monthly contribution and – if necessary – also beyond.

Sign in Pour Tous Distribution Center: Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness. (The Mother, 1968)

Are cookies meant to satisfy desires? In Auroville’s Pour Tous Distribution Center they are regarded as basic needs.

Pour Tous Co-operative – colloquially often referred to as Pour Tous Store.

Changing the goal of the economy: from MORE to BETTER

Auroville Paper Factory

The Pitchandikulam tree house – a place where ideas for fictional stories flow into me.

Owls in Temple in Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Auroville Bioregion

Chilling in a tree in Nadukuppam

Harvesting Crabs

Harvesting Crabs

Harvesting Crabs

Banjan tree

In a forrest in Tamil Nadu, Bioregion of Auroville

The Gulf of Bengal

Local fishermen in Gulf of Bengal

Roaring waves at the Gulf of Bengal

Stepping into the vast ocean of possibilities

Flower growing in a forest planted by the local community in Southern India

We learned to make bricks with a similar machine as seen in Kenya and then made our own arc.

Earth Institute: Architects at work

Earth unified in Earth Institute, Auroville. Samples from all corners of the planet.

Sacred Groves natural buildings

The Ladder House

The Ladder House in Sacred Groves: constructing creative, alternative housing with natural materials.

Sacred Groves natural buildings

Sacred Groves natural buildings

Scorpions cannot climb glass: scorpion protection for naturally built house

Aquaponic: plants eat fish poo instead of cow poo. Mjam…

Aquaponic

Pumpkin growing in red soil

basil growing in red soil

palm trees in Auro Orchard

Enjoying evening sun in Auro Orchard

Banjan tree

Meeting under Banjan Tree in Auro Orchard. This farm recently turned to organic farming.

Locally grown food in Solitude Farm. So delicious!!

Relaxing after lunch in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Palm tree in Solitude Farm

Planting circular permaculture garden in Solitude Farm

Eager students of all ages in the Ecovillage Design Education Course

Papaya, Papaya!

Banana, Banana?

Pretty flower – who knows the name?

Cow placenta hanging in tree

Title Ecology Week

Opening Ceremony of Ecovillage Design Education Course

Opening Ceremony

The Ecodorm in Pitchandikulam Forest is our class room and dormitory

Schedule Social Week

Gaia Education Mandala of Sustainability

Water-saving outdoor shower

Cup for showering

Cup for showering

Shower head of water-saving outdoor shower.

Shower head of water-saving outdoor shower.

Shower head of water-saving outdoor shower.

Shower head of water-saving outdoor shower.

Water-saving outdoor shower.

Handwashing station in Sadhana Forest, Kenya.

This bucket collects all the poo that is later used for the compost. Every user finishes with a layer of saw-dust.

This bucket collects all the poo that is later used for the compost. Every user finishes with a layer of saw-dust.

Bucket to pee into in compost toilet.

Pee equipment in compost toilet.

Bucket to collect pee for the compost.

Compost toilet in Sadhana forest, Kenya: almost no odours thanks to saw dust.

Comost toilet in Sadhana forest: almost no odours thanks to saw dust.

Through the little hole in this tin the water flows slowly. Handwashing only takes little water.

Through the little hole in this tin the water flows slowly. Handwashing only takes little water.

Biodegradable soap in handwashing station

Biodegradable soap in handwashing station

Handwashing station in Sadhana Forest, Kenya.

In rainy season the path ways in Southlands become very muddy.

Kids play happily in Southlands Slum

Young mother and child in slum

Clothes drying on a rainy day.

Women with kids washing clothes.

Boy strolling the streets of Southlans.

Old cars in Southlands.

Hair salon in Southlands slum.

Young woman in window.

Boy with motorcycle.

View from the garbage collection center.

Moses with collected garbage

Golden and silver teeth are the local fashion.

Moses and his friend lead a youthgroup. One of the community projects is to collect and sell garbage.

People near garbage collection center.

Bridge across water in Southlands.

Girl carrying a baby.

Kids hanging out in Southalnds.

Garbage collection center.

Fruit and vegetable shop.

Boy sitting in a shop in Southlands.

Pre-School kids in Southlands slum.

Pre-school kids preparing for exam.

Pre-school kids in class in Southlands slum.

Pre-school kids in class.

Woman making fire to sell cooked food.

Woman selling charcoal.

Boy in electronics repair shop.

Woman selling drinking water.

Hairsalon in Southlands slum.

Woman buying beans.

Women in front of hair saloon.

Busy street in Southlands slum.

Drinking water for sale.

Coal shop in Southlands slum.

Street in Southlands Slum

Boy selling nappies.

Fruit and Vegetable Shop.

Moses guided and protected us in Southlands Slum.

Mother with baby at home in Southlands Slum, Nairobi.

Girl at her home with little brother in Southlands slum.

Beautiful girl in Southlands slum

Southlands kids make the best of it and have fun anyways.

Southlands kids make the best of it and have fun anyways.

Moses leads the way through Southlands

She is a mother of six and only in her mid-thirties.

This boy was curious what we were doing inside that house (interviewing).

I’m interviewing people in Southlands slum with support of Child Doctor NGO.

I’m interviewing people in Southlands slum with support of Child Doctor NGO.

I’m interviewing people in Southlands slum with support of Child Doctor NGO.

This mother has six children. Some of them get help from Child Doctor, a Japanese NGO.

Kids play in muddy garbage in Southlands.

Planting Trees. Planting Life.

Sabwani Garden. Not many trees here.

Sabwani Garden. Not many trees here.

Sabwani Garden. Not many trees here.

Sabwani Garden. Not many trees here.

Sabwani Garden. Not many trees here.

Planting Trees

Planting Trees

Silke planting trees.

Playing with the kids was great fun.

Playing with the kids was great fun.

The kids loved the new little trees.

The kids loved the new little trees.

The kids loved the new little trees.

The kids loved the new little trees.

The kids loved the new little trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

Planting Trees.

The kids loved to play with the overall-excitement in the air.

The kids loved to play with the overall-excitement in the air.

The chicken curieously checked out the newcomers.

Philip planting tree.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

The kids loved the new trees.

The kids loved the new trees.

The kids loved the new trees.

Kids and trees. They will grow up together.

Carrying trees.

Posing with trees.

Posing with trees.

Posing with trees.

Posing with trees.

Posing with trees.

Posing with trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

Carrying trees.

One entire truck full of trees to green Sabwani garden.

One entire truck full of trees to green Sabwani garden.

Handmade bricks in Otepic

Making bricks

Making bricks. I also tried.

These houses were created of the same bricks we were making. They will be used for women to give birth. Many women in this area die during child labor because doctors in hospitals are unable to cope with any complications.

I helped making bricks with this manual brick machine.

Bricks need to store in a dry place.

These kids carried bricks for their own entertainment.

These kids carried bricks for their own entertainment.

Walk in Mitume

Milliscent,, Silke, Lucy in the kitchen

Children watch curiously when a Mzungu (white person) passes by.

Ugali cooking on charcoal stove

The left door leads to the kitchen, the right one to the living room. There are two more bed rooms for the many people who sleep there at night.

Television is always on. Now airing a Chinese soap.

Television is always on. Now airing a Chinese soap.

Lucy, Anastasia and Milliscent preparing food for Hero’s Day

Lucy cleans the dishes after the feast

Ugali, vegetable and goat meat

Men and women eat together in the living room. Children remain in the kitchen.

Washing God-given cutlery before every meal.

Fooling around

Animals outside the house

Milliscent and Lucy outside the kitchen for a tea break.

Fun pics during cooking session: Anna, Milliscent, Silke

Diverse leaves prepared as vegetable for nearly every meal

Washing goat meat

Chopping goat meat

Chopping goat meat

Lucy and Milliscent preparing food for the National Holiday in Anastasia’s kitchen in Mitume slum.

Masaai Mara at dusk. Animals prepare for the night

Zebras at dawn. They survived the dangers of the night

Birds in a tree in Masaai Mara

Giraffe. Have you ever seen her running? Really graceful and stunning!

Hippos chilling in the Mara River

Silke, author of Student of the World

Pumba finds funny position for eating

Impala men (with horns) gather harems of women (without horns)

Three of like five rhinos in Masaai Mara. Our driver said he hadn’t seen rhinos for 2.5 month, although he visits the Mara every week.

There are not many Rhinos at Masaai Mara. Our driver had not seen one for the past 2,5 month

Today, in the mighty savannah, the lion queen and her baby sleep shaded from the bright day light

Elephants live in families

Lion chilling in the shade in Masaai Mara

Elephant babies need milk for about 2 years

Death as a public tourist attraction

Water Buffalos can’t see very far. So they enjoy the company of animals who see far, preferably the giraffe who can see 2 km.

Tourists are pretty safe in these vehicles that open the top for you to see and take pictures.

Thibaud, Paul, Magdalena, Jacob

Farid, Paul, Tobias, Magdalena, Jacob

Tom

Tobias and Thibaud

Paul, Thibaud, Tobias

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Farid.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Silke explaining game.

Betty and Silke.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Group Picture.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Group Picture.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Enid.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Patrick.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Paul and Moses.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Participants and Crew

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. The Venue: WeCreate.

Silke, Magdalena, Eva

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Understanding your enterprises’ environment.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Webdays Social Media Crew.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp. Inventing rules for games that create neither winners nor losers.

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Nairobi Social Entrepreneurs Camp

Everybody sleeps in tents at the rainbow gathering.

The healing tipi is for everybody to use and very comfortable inside. A little fire gives warmth.

It is very easy to approach members of the rainbow family, like these two great folks from the Netherlands and the US.

On the way to the Rainbow Gathering we stopped at this beautiful old linden tree and enjoyed the view over this Bavarian village

The rainbow gathering in Bavaria was blessed with sunshine. Family members sleep in tents. Tipis are common spaces for everybody to use.

Volunteers prepare dinner in the kitchen tent (similar to this tipi). If nobody feels like cooking there will be no food.

The mornings can be quite humid on this meadow in Bavaria

The healing tipi offered space for everyone to use.

The location of the rainbow gathering is kept secret. You only get vague hints on where to go but enough to make it. (The red dot doesn’t mark the gathering point)

The path of Nieklitz leads into the future 😉

Ceylan Rohrbeck, Co-Founder of “Wir bauen Zukunft”

We discovered an old truck, hidden behind some fences in Nieklitz

The Nieklitz group received a big donation of tools.

Beautiful sunset on the night of the full moon in Nieklitz

Planting a herb bed during summer camp in Nieklitz, Germany

Everybody could bring in tasks and others could join to complete them.

Three tasty group meals a day. Vegan or vegetarian for Nieklitz summer camp participants.

Cooking in the outdoor kitchen for the hungry workers

A lot of work to do: sorting garbage for up-cycling

The pedagogic concept of the former owner reminded me of my biology classes back in the 1990s.

Wildlife and remains of human civilization

Every night we gathered around the camp fire to tell stories of the day and of life. Somebody brought a guitar, somebody else some self-written stories.

Every night we gathered around the camp fire to tell stories of the day and of life. Somebody brought a guitar, somebody else some self-written stories.

The park in Nieklitz hasn’t been touched by human hands in 3 years. Nature claims it back.

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Outdoor kitchen