http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tuned in!
In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth. How to live better with less? This novel project enhances new critica...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
Interview mit Fair Bindung Der gemeinnützige Verein FairBindung e.V. setzt sich für eine nachhaltige, solidarische und global gerechte Gesellschaft weltweit ein. Seine Projekte reichen vom Import und Verkauf von hochwertigem und fair gehandeltem Bio-Kaffee bis hin zur Erstellung von Methoden und Materialien für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Wirtschaftswachstum in der Bildung. Für den Stream [...]