Ten years ago G20 leaders committed a staggering $5 trillion of public funds to rescue the banks and restore growth during the largest economic contraction in modern times. The economies of an unprecedented number of countries — and their associated environmental footprints — experienced very low growth over the decade that followed. In a recent study published in the Journal of Cleaner Prod...
The left's strange bedfellows Over a year ago I lived in Barcelona, where I was lucky enough to witness a social movement—in large part fuelled by cooperatives, squats, and other autonomous spaces—win the mayoral elections. I had spent the year being involved with a group that studies and advocates ‘degrowth’—the idea that we must downscale production and consumption to have a more equitable s...
Welche Auswirkungen hat die Beschäftigung mit Degrowth für verschiedene Bewegungen, die beim Projekt "Degrowth in Bewegungen" dabei waren? Darüber sprechen Olaf Bernau (afrique europe interact), Friederike Habermann (Ecommony, MOVE Utopia), Theresa Klostermeyer (Deutscher Naturschutzring) und Werner Rätz (Attac), moderiert von Nina Treu (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie) bei einer Podiumsdiskussion i...
