Students:Day Two - the sustainability concept at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

The day started off after breakfast when our hosts, Marlene and Insa, came to our hostel at 9.30 to introduce themselves and take us into town for a guided tour, including explanations of the town's wealth (salt mining), its uneven houses (a result of extracting so much salt from the ground), and the town's importance as a member of the Hanseatic League. Following the tour, we walked to the Leuphana University campus for lunch at mensa prior to a presentation by Dr Maik Adomssent on the basic concepts of sustainable development, beginning with an image of The Simpsons sitting together on the couch with Maik challenging the students to thinking in what ways the image represented aspects of sustainability and unsustainability. Maik made further use of "iconic" images of sustainability, including Rockstrom et al's planetary boundaries graph, the three circles representing the three pillars of sustainable development, the recycling logo, and the ecological footprint.