Valentin Thurn ist Regisseur. 2011 kam sein Film "Taste the Waste" in die Kinos und er gründete die Selbstorganisations-Plattform "Foodsharing" mit, auf der überschüssige Nahrungsmittel an andere weiter gegeben werden können. Für den Stream towards Degrowth sprachen wir mit ihm in einem Videointerview fiktiv aus einer Zeit in der Zukunft, die die Steigerungslogik überwunden hat. Das Thema: Sein Filmprojekt über die zukünftige Ernährung der Gesellschaft, so wie er sie sich 2014 vorstellt.
What could an alliance of techies and greens bring for a social, democratic and ecological future? The conference "Bits and Trees" ("Bits & Bäume" in German), which took place in Berlin on November 17th and 18th of this year, tried to shed light on this question. It brought together around 1.700 people interested and organized around digitalization and sustainability. Merely the name of ...
Permaculture and degrowth are both movements whose foundational ideas were developed the 70’s, just as the evidence was amassing in the science world to be able to explain the consequences of unchecked growth and human-induced environmental degradation. As such, both movements are reactionary and propose a radical, ethics-based paradigm shift away from the globally dominant culture of over-cons...
Things are big in the United States of America. Returning home after a year away reacquaints me with big detached single-family homes, big single-occupant vehicles, and big single-species grass lawns. I find wider roads, longer distances, larger supermarkets, and more stuff everywhere. As a student of ecological economics, it makes me a little anxious. Such individualistic extravagance isn’t e...
