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 recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
By Giorgos Kallis A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can ...
Um dem demokratischen und integrativen Anspruch der Degrowth-Konferenz gerecht werden zu können, haben wir eine spannende Crowdfunding-Kampagne gestartet. Sie läuft nun 55 Tage und endet kurz vor der Konferenz. Unser Ziel ist es, dass möglichst viele Menschen an der Konferenz teilnehmen können und somit zu einem Wandel für eine Gesellschaft jenseits von Wachstumszwängen beitragen. Dafür ist [...]
