We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections.
Abolish all income tax on incomes lower than $50,000 dollars per year. Finance this tax break by establishing a sovereign carbon fund financed by charges to the oil, coal and natural gas industry and by a carbon fee on trade imports.
Make Friday a day off that we can dedicate to our families, friends and communities. Do not reduce salaries: same pay for four days of work. President Roosevelt did it during the Great Depression. This alone can create 10 million new jobs.
No bank should lend more than its deposits. Banks cannot be allowed to create money out of thin air, while all the rest of us have to work hard just to get by.
Each and everyone should have the freedom to choose how to live their lives free from illness, hunger or fear. Establish a permanent freedom income of $800 per month, for every American. Pay for the income like Alaska did with a sovereign carbon fund. If this is not enough, finance it with a sovereign capital fund, funded by a progressive fee on excessive capital.
Hard-working Americans should have the right to inhabit housing assets that are left unused for more than one year for the purpose of speculation.
At the COP24 conference in Poland, countries are aiming to finalise the implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. The task has extra gravity in the wake of the recent IPCC report declaring that we have just 12 years to take the action needed to limit global warming to that infamous 1.5ᵒC target. Although the conference itself is open to selected state representatives only, many see t...
Das Projekt- und Aktionsnetzwerk living utopia lädt am 5. November 2016 zur Utopie-Ökonomie-Konferenz (UTOPIKON) nach Berlin ein. Geplant sind 300 Teilnehmer*innen, fünf Keynotes, zehn Workshops und ein inspirierendes Rahmenprogramm. Als Referent*innen haben bisher unter anderem Silke Helfrich, Friederike Habermann, Niko Paech und Gerrit von Jorck zugesagt. Die Idee: Die UTOPIKON möchte zum ...
Im September 2014 fand die Degrowth-Konferenz in Leipzig statt. Die frei wählbaren Teilnehmer_innen Beiträge waren erfreulicherweise höher, als erwartet! Sie ermöglichen dem ehm. Degrowth Organisationskreis, knapp 9.000 Euro für eine Projektförderung vergeben zu können. Egal ob ihr Diskussionen befördern, Wissen generieren, Menschen bilden oder praktisch tätig werden wollt: es sollen kleine Pr...
