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Rob Hopkins: Transition Town is the practical manifestation of a postgrowth society

23.07.2014

Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition Movement. We interviewed him for the Stream towards Degrowth during the launch of his new Book “The Power of just doing Stuff - How local Action can change the World” in Bielefeld. Watch the video to hear more about the connections and differences between the Degrowth and the Transition Movement.

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Summer School opens with Clear Vision for Movement and Action

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By: Christiane Kliemann

By Christiane Kliemann With the Summer School in the lignite-mining area of the German Rhineland, for the first time the degrowth and climate justice movement are explicitly thought together. This is why the opening panel "No Climate Justice without Degrowth" had the interesting task to draw the very big picture and join the dots between climate change, degrowth, climate justice and the strugg...

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The End of the Industrial Society as a Business Concept. Caution - Satire!

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As a manager for “Bios funeral directors“, Dr. phil. Haimo Schulz Meinen, ex-journalist, teacher and writer, suggests the next steps to relieve the planet from the human objective of growth. In fact, “Bios Funeral” appears to be a very profitable start up and worthy of investment. After a short moment of surprise we finally published [...]

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Only few days left for submissions!

We would like to remind you that the deadline for the submission of scientific papers and civil society contributions for the Fourth International Degrowth-Conference is 28th of February 2014. The conference will be held in Leipzig from the 2nd to 6th of September 2014 with the strategic goal to bring forward the degrowth movement. In order [...]