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Video: Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete

02.04.2015

Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo. Eine Exkursion während der Degrowth-Konferenz brachte Teilnehmende zur Gemüsekooperative "Rote Beete", die ein paar Kilometer außerhalb von Leipzig liegt. Hier wurde gezeigt, wie solidarische Landwirtschaft funktioniert. Außerdem ist ein großer Teil des Gemüses, das auf der Degrowth-Konferenz verzehrt wurde, hier angebaut worden. Das Video führt durch die Felder, begleitet die Tour und berichtet über den Anbau.

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Climate mitigation scenario – Contains growth and other normative substances

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By: Kai Kuhnhenn

We all use models in daily life to explain our environment. An example: I assume that a tree will grow provided it has sufficient water, nutrients and sun. I am using a simple model here, without understanding the nitty-gritty – what exactly happens in the roots, stem, leaves and cells. Thinking in models is not only useful to understand our world, but also to solve problems. Let’s assume the ...

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Degrowth is anything but a strategy to reduce the size of GDP

By: Giorgos Kallis

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...

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Again and again: supposed evidence for decoupling emissions from growth is not what it seems

By: Mark H Burton

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