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.
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...
In a recently published article in Nature Climate Change, Jeroen van den Bergh argues that neither degrowth nor green-growth strategies might lead to sufficient climate action and hence makes the case for a third option which he calls “agrowth”. While the understanding of degrowth reflected in the article can certainly be disputed – it comes across as mainly targeting a shrinking GDP – his conc...
Das „Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.“ veranstaltet vom 11. bis 16. August 2014 zum zweiten Mal eine Workshop-Woche zum Thema „Wirtschaft anders machen – Konzepte für Heute und Morgen!“ in Leipzig. Dabei haben junge Erwachsenen die Möglichkeit, sich gemeinsam mit uns über Grenzen und Probleme des derzeitigen Wirtschaftens auszutauschen und neue Ansätze kennenzulernen. Neben einer theoretischen [...]
