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.
Anthropological thoughts on degrowth Degrowth energizes and interconnects remarkably heterodox thinking and surprisingly heterogeneous action. To advance dialogue among diverse pathways, a recent Journal of Political Ecology issue on “Degrowth, Culture and Power” joins studies of 15 initiatives to forge worlds that prioritize well-being, equity and sustainability rather than expansion. My intr...
By Mark Burton Most ecological economists argue that continued economic growth is incompatible with ecological safety. That is to say continued increases in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP and also Gross Value Added, GVA) cannot happen while reducing ecological impacts in general, and climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in particular. It isn’t a popular message, and is one that ...
Aktuelle Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien von Unternehmen sind insbesondere auf die Steigerung der Effizienz und den Ausbau der Konsistenz in der Wertschöpfungskette ausgerichtet. Sie erscheinen jedoch unter den gegebenen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen nur begrenzt geeignet, um den ökologischen Herausforderungen angemessen zu begegnen (vgl. Stengel 2011; Schneidewind/Palzkill 2011). Daher ist eine Unternehmenskommunikation wichtig, die Suffizienz anstatt Effizienz oder [...]
