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What is clean energy and for whom?

07.08.2015

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.

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Undoing the Ideology of Growth: Hegemony, Path Dependencies and Power in the History of the Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations. Degr...

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The Story of Sand Castles

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"Wer teilt, hat mehr vom Leben."

Scheub und jensen

Annette Jensen und Ute Scheub arbeiten als Publizistinnen schon seit vielen Jahren in den Bereichen Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Nachhaltigkeit und Frieden. Besonders gerne schreiben sie Geschichten des Gelingens über ökosoziale Pioniere. Im September 2014 erscheint im oekom-Verlag ihr gemeinsames Buch: „Glücksökonomie. Wer teilt, hat mehr vom Leben.“ Sie veröffentlichen außerdem regelmäßig Beispiele auf der Plattform www.futurzwei.org. [...]