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Scientific paper • 2015
By: Conrad Kunze, Sören Becker
Community energy, Remunicipalisation, Energy cooperatives, Energy geography, Degrowth, Renewable energy, Energy transition
Scientific paper • 2015
Credit, Debt, Money, Growth, Degrowth, Post-growth, Capitalism
Report • 2015
By: Ashish Kothari
The publisher: Across Europe, as economies find themselves tottering in the face of deepening financial and social crises, various alternative initiatives are gaining ground, providing hope for a different future. Ashish Kothari writes on some of these.
Report • 2015
By: Marc Menningmann
Short video about the people's kitchen at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.
• 2014
By: Michael Würfel, Diana Leaves Christian, Dieter Halbach, Marcus Andreas
Inhalt: -430 Gemeinschaften, Ökodörfer, Siedlungs- und Wohnprojekte stellen sich vor -Artikel zur Gemeinschaftsgründung, zur gesellschaftlichen Relevanz von Gemeinschaften, zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung in und über Gemeinschaften und mehr… -Vorstellung von Gemeinschaftsnetzwerken mit weiteren Gemeinschaftsdaten -Nützliche Adressen aus ganz Europa -Aktuelle Ausgabe 2014 - Ergänzungen, Ko...
Interview • 2014
By: Helmut Röscheisen, Marion Busch
Herausgeber_innen: Mit minimalem Ressourcenverbrauch, Nullwachstum und im Frieden miteinander leben – das ist die Vision einer Gesellschaft, in der die Menschen vielleicht glücklicher sind als heute. Das setzt aber voraus, dass das Gemeinwohl in den Vordergrund rückt und die individuen sich umeinander kümmern, sagt der Generalsekretär des deutschen Naturschutzrings Helmut Röscheisen.
Position paper • 2014
From the book: "A different kind of world is not just possible; it is a crucial and urgent necessity. But where do we start when it comes to envisaging the shape it should take and working out how to bring it about? The Convivialist Manifesto seeks to highlight the similarities between the many initiatives already engaged in building that world and to draw out the common political philosophy th...
Report • 2014
By: Schattenblick
Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Mutter Erde Essen. Ist ein solidarisches Essverhalten möglich?" mit Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen. Aus dem Bericht: "Ist ein solidarisches Eßverhalten möglich?" Die im Diskussionsworkshop der Referentin Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen im Rahmen der Internationalen Degrowth-Konferenz am 4. September in Leipzig aufgeworfene Frage ...
• 2014
By: Christian Felber
www.christian-felber.at: Eine demokratische Initiative wächst. Christian Felbers alternatives Wirtschaftsmodell wird nach nur vier Jahren von mehr als 1700 Unternehmen und 200 Organisationen unterstützt, zahlreiche Personen und Institutionen sowie Schulen und Universitäten aus halb Europa und weiten Teilen Lateinamerikas beteiligen sich. Felbers Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie beruht – wie eine Marktwirtsc...
Presentation • 2014
By: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale, Nina Netzer
Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale Facilitation: Nina Netzer From the conference programme: The extensive use of dirty energy sources causes severe environmental and social damages while 2,7 billion people have no access to modern energ...
Position paper • 2014
By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014
Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Social Security at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Proposals for the Transformation > System for the process of transformation. > Avoiding future path dependencies (e.g. with regard to time banks → establishment of a bargaining, care not done by humanity, but by reward-seeking). Vision > Access to Care should be uncon...
Position paper • 2014
By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014
Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Redefining Value at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 Primacy of needs WHAT? > Primacy of self-determined human fundamental needs for all (e.g. Max-Neef's human scale development approach: subsistance, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom). > Counscious human responsabil...
Position paper • 2014
By: Rajni Bakshi
This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Redefining Value.
Scientific paper • 2014
Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities. Increasingly often environmental, social and existential crisis among others, evidence unsustainability of the development model. Face this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and organizational forms that include a new education, that primarily respond the paradigm shif...
Scientific paper • 2014
Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities, the environmental, social and existential crisis, among others, increasingly evident the unsustainable of the development model. Address this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and forms of organization. Its necessary a new education to generate a genuine change, mainly...
Scientific paper • 2014
By: Leslie Safran
Abstract: Many families turn to home education neighbourhood groups for support, resources and guidance. This paper will briefly outline the context of home education in the UK and US, describe three different types of home education neighbourhood group as communities of practice (Wenger, 1998), and examine how the members of these communities learn through participation in such groups. It will...
Scientific paper • 2014
By: Alexander Stumm, Henry Anderson
Abstract: In the last years architectural interventions in urban space have shown their potential both on a social and a aesthetic level. The vertical urban garden is a multi-storey garden for the community, a meeting-point in the city, a space for cultural activities and recreation. The construction is based on the possibilities of the scaffolding system, is easy and cost-efficently to assembl...
Scientific paper • 2014
Abstract: Our society shares a deep faith, an unquestionable belief that education is something good by its very nature. What I want to "dialogize" is that the education systems around the world, and schools in todays Super-Capitalism are the (1) depositories and reproducers of the structural injustice (2) the instruments of institutionalized dehumanization and (3) the manifestations of the fet...
Scientific paper • 2014
By: Alok Sen
Abstract: Environmental governance is the most daunting task faced by most of developing countries today specially where poverty is widespread and natural resources abundant. Poor people there depend heavily on the environmental resources for their livelihood and the resultant degradation in turn depletes the food stock for the poor thus further aggravates poverty. The growth oriented developme...
Scientific paper • 2014
By: Josefin Smeds
Abstract: As a response to limitations of the conventional food system, alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture and direct selling box schemes have emerged in Romania, involving close producer-consumer connections and an emphasis on local and organic produce. Through a multi-case study of two such networks in the city of Cluj-Napoca, their contribution to the establish...