Ever wanted to listen to the book "Vocabulary of Degrowth" because you prefer having an audio book over a physical one? Well, we hear you and share your feeling. That's why we started the "Vocabulary of Degrowth Audiobook Podcast". Currently we are recording individual chapters of the book and publish them as a podcast. This way we eventually get to record the entire book. The English version of the book is already 99% complete. Join us to add the other the languages such as German!
To get a taste of it, have a look at the website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you just want to listen to it. If you're seriously interested in joining, send an email to Robert Orzanna.
We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly...
Degrowth bedeutet eine Abkehr von einem wachstums- und profitorientierten Wirtschaftssystem. Mittels einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation soll ein gutes Leben für alle möglich werden. Das bedeutet: die imperiale Lebensweise des globalen Nordens überwinden, Alternativen aufbauen und positive Erzählungen unserer möglichen Zukunft schaffen. Dazu gehört auch, Widerstand gegen unnütze Großprojek...
Die Legende vom Green Growth beruht auf drei simplen Grundprinzipien: (1) Steigerungen der Ressourceneffizienz, (2) geschlossene Stoffkreisläufe und (3) regenerative Energien. Doch trotz eines Trommelfeuers an Klimaschutzinnovationen nahmen und nehmen die ökologischen Schäden im Energiebereich stetig zu. Die ökologische Modernisierung offenbart sich als Geschichte des technologischen Scheiterns sowie der räumlichen, zeitlichen oder systemischen [...]
