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.
Environmental protection is needed because we take useful things out of nature and put useless or harmful things back in. The resulting depletion and pollution have reached harmful, unsustainable levels. We know that voluntary behaviour change, led by an elite that encourages, fosters and politely ‘nudges’ the masses, won’t do it. Legislated solutions are needed on the principle of ‘I will if y...
Zusammen!Treffen! für eine Welt nach Bedürfnissen und Fähigkeiten. MOVE heißt: Wir möchten Miteinander Offen Vertrauensvoll Emanzipatorisch ... die Zukunft gestalten! Wir teilen die Vision, überkommene Verhältnisse menschlicher Vereinzelung ab- und neue Formen des Zusammenlebens aufzubauen. Wenn wir Bedürfnisse und Talente offen teilen und mitteilen, kann eine neue Art von Beziehungen entsteh...
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
