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Die zweite Degrowth-Sommerschule war eine wunderschöne Erfahrung! Vom 19. bis 23. August wurde Degrowth konkret: Unter dem Motto "Skills for System Change" haben wir aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen untersucht, gemeinsam Utopien entwickelt und ganz praktische Fähigkeiten erlernt, die helfen, eine sozial-ökologische Transformation mitzugestalten: Wie gründe ich mit anderen Menschen eine Kooperative? Wie bauen wir ein Windrad? Was ist nachhaltiger Aktivismus und wie moderiere ich Großgruppen?
While agreeing with many points of van den Bergh's excellent review of the growth versus climate debate, I would like to point to a fundamental misrepresentation of the quoted research on degrowth: degrowth is not a strategy "aimed at reducing the size of the GDP". In fact, the degrowth proposition is that the relationship between fossil fuels/carbon emissions and GDP growth is mutual, and th...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
By André Reichel In the discourse on degrowth – the deliberate and planned downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet – the notion of »sustainable development« has sort of a bad rap. In fact, sustainable degrowth is intended to replace sustainable development as the central concept under which ecological...
