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.
From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
Buchrezension "Smarte Grüne Welt?" Technologien sind schöne Projektionsflächen. Wie die gute (oder böse) Fee im Märchen verkörpern sie häufig, je nach Sichtweise, entweder die Hoffnung auf eine fast magische Lösung unserer Probleme, oder die Bestätigung unserer Ängste. Eine vorurteilsfreie umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit den gesamtgesellschaftlichen Chancen und Risiken neuer Technologien f...
By Brototi Roy In recent years, the debate around universal basic income has gained much popularity and coverage. The many successful models of basic income, both universal and targeted such as Alaska, Iran and Brazil (Bolsa ) along with an active movement in many European countries to adopt pilot experiments, made researchers and social workers in India enthusiastic to try out similar studies...