Was ist schwieriger? In kürzester Zeit 46.000 Euro auftreiben oder endlich eine breite Diskussion über die Zukunft des Rheinischen Braunkohlereviers anzetteln? Für den Organisationskreis der Degrowth-Sommerschule waren beide große Herausforderungen... Christopher Laumanns berichtet. With a little help from our friends... wie wir einen Finanztagebau stopften... Zehn Tage vor Beginn der Sommers...
As policy makers return from Marrakesh puzzling over what a Trump presidency means for the Paris agreement, it is fascinating and wonderful to watch, from a desk in one of the biggest anti-poverty and development organisations, the increased energy, depth, and passion of the degrowth movement. But this movement is unfortunately peripheral to many development conversations. Perhaps that is be...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
