Elisabeth Loibl – academic agriculturalist, grown up on a farm in Burgenland, living at Marion Aigner-Filz’s organic farm “zum Grünen Baum“ in Weinviertel – is a representative of the subsistence perspective and of deep ecology at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna: Introduction to Deep Ecology. Research topics: social processes, regional economy, the good life in the country. Her favorite workshop method is the Circle Way by Manitonquat and Ellika Linden.
In 2014 she published her book “Deep ecology. A loving view of the earth” (oekom verlag).
For Elisabeth Loibl, when it comes to sustainability and climate change, the questions are: When do we stop treating nature as if we had to defend ourselves against it? How do we come back to life? How can we rekindle our relation to this life-giving planet?
Elisabeth Loibl is greatly influenced by the work of the founders of the subsistence perspective: Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Maria Mies, Claudia von Werlhof, and Vandana Shiva as well as the spiritual parents of deep ecology: Arne Naess and Joanna Macy.