“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 ...
Schon zum zweiten Mal gibt es dieses Jahr die Degrowth-Sommerschule auf dem Klimacamp im Rheinland. Während sie letztes Jahr ganz im Zeichen von Klimagerechtigkeit stand, heißt sie diese Jahr „Skills for System Change“. Wir haben bei Christopher Laumanns vom Orga-Team nachgefragt, warum das so ist, und was Euch auf der Sommerschule erwartet. Warum ist der Zusammenschluss von Degrowth und d...
By Corinna Burkhart Humans get used to quite a lot of things and live their daily life through a set of what we can call habits. Everyday experiences are not much worth a thought as long as everything is like it always is. This can be driving by car to town, only to get stuck in the usual traffic jam, or something very simple like flushing the toilet or using knife and fork to eat a grilled pi...