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.
It is great to see an attempt to put degrowth ideas into a straightforward form that can be taken into political debate. However, the selection of points is critical and I am not convinced that this is the right selection. I'll just take issue with two: 1. Zero bank-debts “No bank should lend more than its deposits. Banks cannot be allowed to create money out of thin air, while all the re...
By Joanna Cabello Climate justice is a relatively new term. Being a key concept in the Degrowth in Action – Climate Justice Summer School 2015, it is important here to expand upon the different understandings of, and some of the debates surrounding, the term ‘climate justice’ – though of course no single understanding is right or wrong, and no group can lay claim to a particular concept. Alt...
In Diskussionen mit unternehmerischen Akteuren zum Thema Unternehmenswachstum und Wachstumskritik ist eine der ersten Rückfragen regelmäßig: Welches Wachstum ist denn gemeint? Auch die Teilnehmenden des Workshops „Zukunftsfähig wachsen? Unternehmen zwischen Wachstum und Nachhaltigkeit“ (IÖW/GLS Bank) verbanden mit Wachstum eine Vielzahl von Indikatoren, die sie für ihre eigenen Unternehmungen mit unterschiedlichem Gewicht versehen. Aus der nachhaltigkeitsorientierten [...]
