Von Thadden is an editor of the German weekly Die Zeit in Hamburg. She has done research on Goethe\'s concept of nature and is now, as a journalist, interested in the social and cultural aspects of climate change. As a visiting scholar at CES for the fall she wants to work on the question of how societies change routines: Why don\'t people ecologically act as they know they should? Her new book, Wer denkt für morgen? is to be published in August 2010.
