The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
.In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
Frederik Grüneberg war Mitglied der Redaktionsgruppe der „Mainzer Botschaft“ der Ökumenischen Versammlung 2014 und ist auch Mitglied im Organisations-Kreis der Degrowth-Konferenz 2014. Im Interview im Rahmen des Stream towards Degrowth legt er dar, wo sich die beiden Bewegungen auf der Suche nach „einer Ökonomie des Lebens“ treffen. Inwiefern ist unsere Gesellschaft wachstumsabhängig? Unsere Gesellschaft ist in [...]
