“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 ...
Making sense of inputs from the Budapest Degrowth Conference The degrowth community in Budapest and other forums formulated a number of concrete policies and identified alliances with other movements. Acknowledging the diversity of perspectives and a more concise set of proposals by Research and Degrowth, this article puts together a number of policies and proposals consistent with degrowth. T...
von Christiane Kliemann Mit der Sommerschule im Klimacamp im Rheinland werden zum ersten Mal die Themen Degrowth und Klimagerechtigkeit explizit zusammen gedacht. Das Eröffnungspodium ,,Keine Klimagerechtigkeit ohne Degrowth‟ hatte somit die Aufgabe, den großen Bogen zu schlagen und die Verbindungslinien zwischen Klimagerechtigkeit, Degrowth und dem Widerstand gegen fossile Energieträger zu zi...
