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Five Powerful Features of the Commons

06.09.2016

On the occasion of the presentation of our project Degrowth in Movement(s) at the Budapest Degrowth Conference, commons activist Silke Helfrich wrote a summary on the event. Read more on the CommonsBlog.

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Making Another World Possible Will Require Radical Alternatives - Impressions from the World Social Forum

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By Ashish Kothari If sheer enthusiasm can deliver ‘another world’, the opening rally of the World Social Forum in Tunis on 24th March held much promise. Thousands of women and men, young and old, vociferous and quiet, a colourful multitude of sloganeering, banner-holding, dancing and singing braved rain and well-below expected temperatures to march from the historic Bab Sadoun to the iconic Ba...

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Different perspectives on degrowth in the light of the global crises

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By Christiane Kliemann "Facing the current crises: critique and resistance":  The motto of the second day´s conference programme takes into account that degrowth is mainly a concept from the global North which naturally has a different perspective on the mulitfaceted global crisis than social or ecological movements from other parts of the World. While degrowth can be described as "a downscali...

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"The dollar is approaching its collapse, which will force a reconfiguration of our systems of money, finance and banking"

Interview with Ole Bjerg Ole Bjerg is associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He writes for the ephemera Journal and is one of the organizers of the conference "Organizing for the post-growth economy". He gave us a short interview for the Stream towards Degrowth.   Imagine we're living in the future, say in the year 2030, in a time of well-being. Humanity enjoys a good life ...