Für unsere Degrowth Konkret - Klimagerechtigkeit Sommerschule 2015 suchen wir noch nach Anbieter*innen von Kursen. Die Sommerschule findet vom 9. bis 14. August 2015 im Braunkohleabbaugebiet Rheinland zusammen mit dem Klimcamp statt. Die Kurse sollen als Herzstück der Veranstaltung 4 oder 2 Tage lang laufen und damit die Möglichkeit zur Themenvertiefung bieten. Eine bestimmte Form oder Struktur ist nicht vorgegeben, sodass viel Raum bleibt für Kreativität. Die Einreichungsfrist endet am 30. April. Wer interessiert ist, einen Kurs vorzubereiten, findet alle nötigen Informationen hier. Zur PDF-Version geht es hier
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
By Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon Is the world going through an environmental crisis? If yes, who has caused it and where does the onus to remedy it lie? If one is to go by the policy debates and outcomes worldwide, the existence of a crisis seems established, the attribution contested, and the road map for remedies under perpetual review. Each year several international conventions revisit thei...
With the "Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change" published by the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium earlier this month, another world religion has expressed heavy concerns about the pursuit of relentless economic growth. Professor Odeh Al Jayyousi, one of the members of the Symposium, had attended our summer school on degrowth and climate justice right before the symposium a...
