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.
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...
By Giorgos Kallis A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can ...
Nach den Erfolgen der letzten Jahre laden die Vereinigung für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (VÖW) und das netzwerk n vom 30.7. – 2.08. 2014 zur vierten Sommerakademie nach Lobetal bei Berlin ein. Anhand der Erfahrungen bei der Etablierung von Nachhaltigkeit in Wissenschaft und Lehre sollen Strategien entwickelt werden, mit denen insbesondere Studierendeninitiativen alternative Konzepte wie Postwachstum, plurale Wirtschaftswissenschaften [...]
