Die Degrowth-Summerschule 2015 fand gemeinsam mit dem Klimacamp im Rheinland statt. Das Rheinland ist eines der größten Braunkohle-Abbaugebiete und die größte CO2-Quelle in Europa. Um gegen klimaschädliche Industrie und Ressourcenausbeutung zu protestieren, kamen hier verschiedene Bewegungen zusammen, um sich für Alternativen und eine soziale Transformation einzusetzen. Ein Video von Raute Film.
Degrowth Summer School & Climate Camp 2015 von Marc Menningmann bei Vimeo.
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...
Degrowth has been described as a “movement” rather than an ideology1, and as such it presents several variations. For some of its proponents, degrowth is a proxy for sustainable consumption, and to a lesser extent production2. A second group of degrowth advocates are those for whom an emerging discussion of “sufficiency” as a societal norm is taking shape, as a result of activism3. Finally, a t...
On the Need for Collaboration Between Social Movements and Activisms By Lucie Bardos Not that long ago, I left North America and arrived fresh and starry-eyed in Lund, Sweden, ready to begin my master’s degree in a program entitled Culture, Power and Sustainability. In my second year, I decided to write my thesis about the Transition Town movement, a social movement out of Great Britain born ...
