Gundolf Graml's List: ASC in Germany

• If you saved the bottle and take it to one of the machines, it is possible to get that tax back, but this does not work for all bottles. An offshoot effect that I noticed was that if there were bottles littering the ground in public areas, more often than not they would be picked up by homeless people looking to cash in on them, therefore creating a kind of backup cleaning system.

  • Very good observation!
• It is based out of  Flagstaff, Arizona, but has a location in Potsdam, Germany .

  • The location we visited was actually in Köln...

• I had the pleasure of interviewing two people who had to make visits to the hospital while in Germany, and I wanted to know what their response was personally to treatment regarding their safety, comfort, and wellbeing.

  • I like that: use an unexpected situation as a research opportunity!!
• Maybe it was just bad luck that the doctors did not know English, but it was a letdown nonetheless.

  • To clarify: the doctors did speak English quite well, but even minor moments of misunderstanding leave a big impression in a situation that involves your own wellbeing.
• Along with external influences, the citizens are mobile via different means of transportation. The majority of Americans travel by personal cars. This not only has a negative impact on health because of increased smog and decreased physical exercise, but it has negative impacts on the environment and economy. What I noticed through observation and personal experience is that Germans are always moving. The bus and train system are adequately equipped to handle public transit, and the Berlin system is far better than any public transit system in America that I have traveled on. The fancy bike lanes that line the cities with red lanes (or as we liked to call it: “the red lava”) allow bicyclists a safe route to use. The country is designed so that pedestrians can get around. If I tried to use the Marta and walk around downtown Atlanta, not only would I die from heat stroke, but it would take me forever to get to my destination.

  • Good reflection on the role of mass transport for citizens' health.
• I could just be there and meditate in the assortment of random facts that I knew. Oh, how was I ever so wrong, and I am very glad the an art professor accompanied me so that I could make sense of some of the art and design that was “contaminating” my science.
• After going through the whole exhibit, first to look at the Voyage and second to actually see the main exhibit, I started to realize that there was a stark connection or at least a correlation between the sciences and arts. At first when we visited and learned about Bauhaus, I was a little shocked when I heard the mantra relating form and function, but now I found it very appropriate.

  • Good example for transformative visit
• Looming over us during the travel was a required project that would culminate from our sightseeing and other research. The research for this project turned out to not be ominous in the slightest; it has been a lot of fun.
• It is about the people, what they want, and how they navigate through the human experience.

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• I naturally just became  more curious bout Germany and Eastern European people. What are the rates of these diseases? What are their diets like? I was also curious as to how peoples with gluten intolerances (or even the more sever celiacs disease) get along in a country that I had always been convinced of being so stereotypically bread and beer dependent. One curiosity grew into another and as my interests widened from being just about gluten to grains to corn and eventually whole food industries, I realized I wanted to make more mainstream and conventional observations.

  • Lydia's main thesis; it's a bit buried in a long narrative about her family's diseases...

• day had just finished laying a laurel wreath and a grand cross of white flowers at his grave here on Tuesday when a 70-year-old retiree quietly slipped in behind them and placed a small potato on the gray slab of stone that m
• At a moment when Europe has turned to Germans for leadership and aid, Germany has turned to a long-dead Prussian king to try to better understand itself. Frederick embodied to his very core the contradiction in the term “enlightened despot.”
• His legacy was long tarnished by the Nazi embrace of his wars of conquest and aggression, but as World War II recedes with the passing years, Frederick has staged a comeback. For better or worse, the taboo against Prussian militarism has lost enough of its sting for Germany to permit itself a yearlong, all-out Frederick celebration.

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• Tourist-Information Dessau-Roßlau

• Rundgang durch das UBA

   

  Geführter Rundgang durch das Gebäude mit Informationen zur Architektur, zum Energiekonzept, zu den Aufgaben des Umweltbundesamtes und zum ehemaligen Gasviertel.

   

  Termine nach Vereinbarung
    Kosten: 1-stündige Führung = 30,- € (bis max. 20 Personen), englische Führung 50,- € (bis max. 20 Personen)

   
• Reisewerk

• Gebaute Vision – Führung durch das Umweltbundesamt in Dessau-Roßlau

   

  jeden Samstag 11 Uhr (vom 26.2. – 26.11.2011) 
    Treffpunkt: UBA, Fahrradstand (rechts vom Haupteingang)
    Dauer 1 Stunde
    Kosten: 5 Euro/Person, keine Mindestteilnehmerzahl, keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
    Gruppenführung auf Anmeldung: maximal 25 Personen/ 60 Euro/ Schulklassen 35 Euro
    Gruppenführung in englischer Sprache: 70 Euro
• Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
• Das Bauhaus, die Meisterhäuser und das Umweltbundesamt
    Dauer ca. 3,5 Std.,
    Gruppen bis 25 Personen: 180,- € (deutsch), 225,- € (Fremdsprache)

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