ULF - Environmental Guide
In close cooperation with the student environmental initiative (tuuwi), a new environmental guide has been developed. The ULF (for German "Umweltleitfaden") is intended to broaden the knowledge regarding impact and participation possibilities as well as sustainable offers on campus and in Dresden. In the guide you will find tips and suggestions for your own personal green lifestyle. In addition, it makes it easier to discover environmentally friendly places and projects at the university and in Dresden to become involved in.
You just want to get a quick overview of certain issues? Then browse through our Website and get started with the corresponding tips.
Do you want to deepen your environmental knowledge across a wide range of topics and to get some fresh ideas? Then it's worth downloading the complete environmental guide in German here (document is not yet accessible) to check all the topics and get comprehensive information.
The TU campus offers various opportunities for an environmentally conscious lifestyle for students, staff and other university members. Among others, services are available for swapping and repairing, recreation, and healthy eating. Also some ideas for environmentally friendly forms of mobility on campus can be discovered in the Environmental Guide.
Click here for offers and tips for an environmentally conscious lifestyle on campus.
Your receipt is also a ballot paper, because when you decide to buy something, you also decide how much of what is being produced. The first consideration should be whether you actually need the product. In doing so, you not only save on costs, but also on energy, resources and emissions. However, nothing can be achieved without consumption. But there are a few things you can consider. In the fashion industry, for example, numerous seals stand for ecologically and socially sound production.
Click here for ideas and tips for conscious consumer choices.
The way we eat is important in many ways: it's about health, well-being, costs, and environmental sustainability, as well as fair wages for producers. Fortunately, many of these factors can be reconciled if we approach the subject of our diet consciously and with some thought.
Click here for sustainable food tips and for alternative suppliers.
Many of us take a vacation that includes air travel for granted, and the thought of doing without it altogether is difficult for us. Yet only 10% of the world's population will ever travel by air in their lifetime?* We enjoy a great privilege and use the most energy-intensive form of all means of transport with the highest-emissions.
Money is not only the issue when planning a vacation, but also in everyday life, especially when dealing with financial issues. A brief overview of what to think about when it comes to green finances has been compiled together with tips for sustainable travel planning.
Click here for tips on sustainable travel planning and green finance.
*https://www.bund.net/themen/mobilitaet/infrastruktur/luftverkehr/?wc=21730
In addition to information on how climate change is affecting the city of Dresden and what the municipality is planning to do to counter climate change, the Environmental Guide also lists starting points for your own voluntary commitment in the city and in various local associations and initiatives. You can become active in many ways to contribute to more sustainability in society, for example by shaping urban development through citizen participation processes.
Click here for more information on the impacts of climate change in the city as well as on forms of participation and opportunities to become active in volunteering in Dresden.
TU Umweltinitiative - tuuwi
Visiting address:
Stura-Baracke/VG2, Raum 13 George-Bähr-Straße 1e
01069 Dresden
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology TU Umweltinitiative - tuuwi
01062 Dresden