The Emergency Committee for Rojava organises on Tuesday, December 17th at 5pm EST the end of the year session of their ongoing study group series Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution. This will be a special conversation hosted by Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, the relationships between climate change, 'just transition', and social transformation will be discussed in the context of Rojava / North-East Syria.
In preparation, they recommend reading MG’s groundbreaking zine: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition.
The concept of convivialism has attracted some attention in recent years. When giving it a closer look – even superficially – it soon reveals its proximity to the degrowth concept and movement. But what exactly constitutes this proximity and where are the differences? Below I will give a short summary of what we can understand by degrowth in practical and theoretical terms. Then I will continue...
The workshop “How to sell degrowth: Business models II” was a short paper session following the scientific paper session “How to sell degrowth: Business models I”. Gabriel Trettel Silva as the first presenter rose the question of whether or not profit-making is compatible with the principles of a steady-state economy. His own conclusion was that it [...]
Before an individual chooses to act, he or she requires a story or mindset to make sense of what the situation is about. Acting rationally in this sense means to act with reason, in congruence with one’s worldview and the individual interpretation of the “rules of the game.” Individual mindsets, however, are not fixed [...]
