User:Julio Lambing

"Julio Lambing (41) studied philosophy, social psychology and theology at the Universities of Frankfurt and Saarbruecken. In his academic years, he focused focussed on theory of societies, the analysis of inter-human proficiencies and alternative systems of knowledge and rationality. This background has profoundly shaped his work and his intellectual take on things.

Lambing himself has a multicultural European background and has been involved with alternative lifestyle projects for twenty years. To reconcile the idea of sustainability with the achievements of our modern age, he argues in favour of learning from diverse milieus and cultures in order to attain a fusion of novel technologies, economies and sustainable ways of life. Lambing is engaged in various social initiatives and intentional communities and has a strong interest in ancient and animistic traditions on the one hand and new family structures on the other. Based on Joseph Beuys' concept of “Social Plastic”, he has conceived a number of “modern-day rituals” and performance art events that he likes to organize with a group of like-minded people.

In the past eleven years, Julio Lambing’s most challenging field of interest was the development of a green industry infrastructure; he has worked particularly on the conversion of our combustion-orientated economy and the improvement of conditions for ethical and sustainable companies. In 2002 he joined (e5), a business association advocating carbon neutral technologies and services in the European Union. In this position, his most important fields of activity were UN climate politics, the modernisation of the European power plant park, emission trading and questions of climate justice. Since 2007, he has been working on open source strategies for carbon neutral technologies. He is co-author of the commons manifesto “Strengthen the Commons”."