Leben im Bauwagen von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo Der Fotograf Nico Baumgarten öffnete während der Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig seinen Bauwagen für Passant_Innen. Wer wollte, konnte sich einen Eindruck von seiner Lebensweise machen und seine Fotoserie "Welcome Home" anschauen, die sich mit alternativen Wohnformen beschäftigt. Im Film erzählt er, was ihn zu dieser Aktion motiviert hat, und beschreibt die Reaktion der Menschen.
“When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s thirty-odd attendees wrote their responses on sticky notes as they scraped the last bites of lunch off the dishes the event’s organizers had told them to ...
We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections. Dedicated to all you framing aficionados out there. Oil-funded tax breaks Abolish all inc...
By Mark Burton It can be difficult to form a view of what’s really going on in our atmosphere, given the amount of information and of contradictory claims. This piece concerns recent reports on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and levels. On 16th March, a Guardian headline over an article by John Vidal said: Surge in renewable energy stalls world greenhouse gas emissions That sounds good...
