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Call for Papers: Technology and Degrowth

15.07.2015

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

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Degrowth in the Mexican Art Biennial: Opportunities and Paradoxes

By: Sofia Avila

In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth. How to live better with less?  This novel project enhances new critica...

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Welcome to Degrowth India!

http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India.  The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tune...

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Suffizienz in der Unternehmenskommunikation – Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zur Wirkung suffizienzorientierter Kommunikation

Aktuelle Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien von Unternehmen sind insbesondere auf die Steigerung der Effizienz und den Ausbau der Konsistenz in der Wertschöpfungskette ausgerichtet. Sie erscheinen jedoch unter den gegebenen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen nur begrenzt geeignet, um den ökologischen Herausforderungen angemessen zu begegnen (vgl. Stengel 2011; Schneidewind/Palzkill 2011). Daher ist eine Unternehmenskommunikation wichtig, die Suffizienz anstatt Effizienz oder [...]