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"The Little Book of Big Actions — How Can We Manage to Live in a More Climate-Friendly Way Every Day?"


Together with Thomas Brudermann, Associate Professor at the University of Graz, sustainability researcher and author of the book "Die Kunst der Ausrede", Empower This Planet, an association for promoting lived sustainability, is publishing a collection of 22 Climate Life Hacks to make it easier for all of us to make climate-friendly choices more and more often. 

In our personal everyday lives, but also in the EcoSystem we live in.

  • With "real" life hacks from our daily lives,
  • enriched with scientific facts
  • and humorous encouragement from Thomas Brudermann.

About the editors
Empower This Planet – Association for Lived Sustainability

Empower This Planet is a community for interdisciplinary imagination & future-shaping. Founded by Sabine Hoffmann (The Tomorrow Tribe), Barbara Fekete
(Raum für Zukunftsgestaltung) and Nadine Schratzberger (Montreet).

What does Empower This Planet do?
Empower This Planet presents people with their passions and their concrete impact online, in public outreach and at events. Like a colourful bouquet of flowers to encourage all those who want to get involved in new ways of living together, doing business and personal growth. Empower This Planet connects different "sustainability bubbles" to strengthen one another and create even greater impact together.

These can be big and small initiatives: from sustainable enterprises and programmes to growing vegetables on your own balcony.

Thomas Brudermann is a qualified psychologist and Professor of Climate Psychology at the University of Graz. In addition to his book »Die Kunst der Ausrede«, he has authored and co-authored over 30 contributions in international journals and books. He is regarded as an expert in human decision-making behaviour and is well acquainted with the internal and external contradictions that make climate-friendly behaviour difficult for us.

In the "Kleinen Buch der großen Taten" he provides the well-founded facts and humorous encouragement for the life hacks.

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