Das Spiel des guten Lebens von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo Während der Degrowth Konferenz gab es neben Vorträgen, Podiumsdiskussionen und Workshops auch viele unkonventionelle Aktionen. Eine davon war das "Spiel des guten Lebens", bei dem das "Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie" das Thema "Degrowth" mit in die Leipziger Fußgängerzone genommen hat, um mit Passant_Innen ins Gespräch zu kommen.
The 6th International Degrowth Conference finished on Saturday, the 25th of August with a demonstration under the rain in the center of Malmö. Typical weather for the end of August in Sweden, and very welcomed after the past worryingly dry months. The subtitle 'Dialogues in Turbulent Times' would summarize the week quite well. The strangely hot summer experienced by all of us was frequently ...
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...
The signs from the Degrowth-Conference having disappeared from the walls of the portentous building of Corvinus University, and the streets of Budapest emptied from the stalls and the babble of the Degrowth-Week, the time is ripe for another evaluation-round. The conference can be assessed from diverse perspectives – with disparate outcomes, I suspect. Even if I am relatively new to the Degrow...