Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
By André Reichel In the discourse on degrowth – the deliberate and planned downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet – the notion of »sustainable development« has sort of a bad rap. In fact, sustainable degrowth is intended to replace sustainable development as the central concept under which ecological...
By Oscar Krüger By now, there are likely few who have not heard of Pope Francis's recent encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si'”. And as many of the readers of this blog might already know, the Spanish and Italian versions contain what appears to be a direct endorsement of degrowth: the use of the term „decrecimiento“ (sp) and „decrescita“ (it), even if this is watered down to „decreased ...
Eine Sendung des unabhängigen Nachrichtenmagazins Kontext TV zur Degrowth Konferenz: Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de "Wir brauchen ein neues Wirtschaftsmodell": Naomi Klein über Klimachaos, die Grenzen des Wachstums und eine neue globale Bewegung Wenn wir den derzeitigen Wachstumspfad fortsetzen, wird sich laut Weltbank und Internationaler Energieagentur die Erdatmosphäre bis 2...