Ever wanted to listen to the book "Vocabulary of Degrowth" because you prefer having an audio book over a physical one? Well, we hear you and share your feeling. That's why we started the "Vocabulary of Degrowth Audiobook Podcast". Currently we are recording individual chapters of the book and publish them as a podcast. This way we eventually get to record the entire book. The English version of the book is already 99% complete. Join us to add the other the languages such as German!
To get a taste of it, have a look at the website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you just want to listen to it. If you're seriously interested in joining, send an email to Robert Orzanna.
Contribution for a dialogue between Degrowth, Human Development and Buen Vivir Over the last 50 years, the mounting evidence of a civilizational or multidimensional crisis has progressively dislocated the (still dominant) industrialist and developmentalist discourse, setting out the imperative of a socio-ecological transition to overcome this crisis. In particular since the turn of the cent...
By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
Viele Publikationen, die für Suffizienz und eine Abkehr vom Wachstums-Paradigma plädieren, adressieren allein an die Politik. Sie müsse für veränderte Rahmenbedingungen sorgen, „damit gutes Leben einfacher wird“ (Schneidewind/Zahrnt). Sie müsse das Geldsystem in ein Vollgeld-System umwandeln (Huber) und/oder endlich eine ökologische Steuerreform durchführen (Binswanger/Nutzinger), um den Naturverbrauch mit monetären Anreizen zu reduzieren. So richtig diese Argumentationen [...]