Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
Dragon Dreaming offers simple, objective and playful tools for visionary processes, planning, implementation, evaluation and celebration to make our dreams come true. Thus it helps building a degrowth society. We have a world economy where eight men have a wealth equivalent to more than 50 per cent of the world’s people, while three billion try to live on less than three dollars a day. We ar...
By Fabian Scheidler In the face of climate change, financial crises and mass poverty, a growing number of people agree that we need a fundamental social-ecological transformation that includes all areas of society. Luckily, a huge variety of concepts and practices for such transformation already exists. These, however, have not yet been able to leave their niches. Why is this so difficult? Are...
Die politische Debatte darüber, wie wir in der Zukunft anders leben und wirtschaften wollen, ist nach dem Abschluss der Enquete-Kommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“ im Bundestag weitgehend eingeschlafen. Außerhalb des Parlaments wird sie allerdings weiterhin lebendig geführt. Das wird auch die 4. Internationale Degrowth-Konferenz zeigen, die vom 2. bis 6. September 2014 in Leipzig Akteur/innen aus [...]
