Wolfgang Pekny

Wolfgang Pekny (* 1956 ) is an Austrian activist . His main focus is on biodiversity , commons , international law and life cycle assessments .

Between 1975 and 1987 he studied chemistry and biology at the University of Vienna .

In 2007 he founded the website www.footprint.at after coordinating the strategic direction of Greenpeace Austria for about 20 years . He has been chairman of the civil society initiative since it was founded (around 2006) . In addition, he has headed the management consultancy footprint-consult eU since it was founded in 2009

Publications

• Protecting Environment is Protecting People. Study for the UN World Conference on Human Rights 1993.
• Economic growth in the industrialized countries - what remains for the third world? In: Dimensions 2000. Verlag Holzhausen, 1997.
• Planet of the forests. Echoverlag 2000. Regular articles on future issues in Greenpeace's own medium ACT.
• Footprint - Austria's ecological footprint. 2007.
• 2009. The ecological footprint of Styria. Feasibility Study 2008, in print.
• We are rebuilding Europe. Who is building? Attac (Ed.), Residenz Verlag, 2009.
• Company future. In: E. Washietl, E. Pfisterer (Ed.): Justice - around the right guidance of life. 2009.

Movie

• Fair future. - as an author and editor

Web links

• Pekny's article at footprint.at
• Brief presentation at a conference on basic income