The next Spaces Beyond Growth: Municipal Degrowth Network webinar event will take place on Wednesday 28th May from 9:00-10:30 CEST.
This will be a space to have a discussion on Feminist Municipalism: Local care politics in Grenoble, Hernani and Graz. The speakers Rivka Saltiel, a researcher at the University of Graz, Coline Chardon, a researcher at the University of Freiburg , and Xabier Lertxundi, mayor of Hernani (Basque country) will present their perspectives on local care politics in Graz, Grenoble, and Hernani.
COVID-19 is both one and the same as any other ecological crisis (such as climate change) because its emergence is rooted in the same mode of production that has generated all other ecological crises and social inequalities of our times. In late 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) emerged from a wet market in Wuhan in the province of Hubei in China. It has so far resulted in cases ov...
The Degrowth Summer School 2015 took place at the climate camp in the Rhineland. The Rhineland is one of the biggest lignite mining regions, the biggest source of CO2 in Europe. To protest against climate-damaging industry and resource extraction, different movements which have a lot in common and share ambitions get together and work on alternatives and a social transformation. A video by Raut...
By Giorgos Kallis Well, that was an interesting week! After publishing two rebuttals of the eco-modernist manifesto, I got swirled into twitterlandia, and exchanges with an amazing cadre of characters. First came the leaders of the Breakthrough Institute, with whom I had civilized conversations about the GDP of Japan and whether it is growing or not; the energy return on investment (EROI) of ...
