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By: Andreas Michael Giselbrecht, Stephanie Ristig-Bresser

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei...

By: Christiane Kliemann

Herausgeber_innen: Was kann die Degrowth-Bewegung von anderen sozialen Bewegungen lernen? Was können diese wiederum voneinander und von Degrowth lernen? Und wie können alle besser zusammenarbeiten? In dem Multimediaprojekt »Degrowth in Bewegung(en)« gehen Vertreter von Initiativen diesen Fragen nach. Christiane Kliemann untersucht den möglichen Beitrag der Ökodorf-Bewegung.

By: Christiane Kliemann

Aus dem Text: .... Einleitender Abschnitt ... Artikel aus dem Degrowth-Blog auf degrowth.de, erschienen im Januar 2016 bzw. Blogpost published on the Degrowth-Blog on degrowth.de/en, January 2016 > This article is also available in English bzw. > Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf deutsch

By: Tobi Rosswog

Interview mit Tobi Rosswog von living utopia Wir freuen uns sehr, dass die Utopie-Ökonomie-Konferenz UTOPIKON, die 4-6 November in Berlin stattfindet, Teil unseres Stream Towards Degrowth ist. Mit dem Stream wollen wir zeigen, dass die Suche nach alternativen Gesellschaftsentwürfen jenseits des Wachstumsparadigmas bei vielen Menschen auf große Begeisterung stößt, und dass es bereits eine bunte

By: Christiane Kliemann

Warum sozialökologischer Wandel nicht ohne eine Veränderung der Tiefenstrukturen unserer Wirtschaft zu haben ist. Von Fabian Scheidler Wer eine Zeitung aufschlägt oder Nachrichten hört, fühlt sich in ein Panoptikum von Katastrophenmeldungen veretzt: hier eine verheerende Dürre, dort ein zerfallender Staat, hier ein Terroranschlag, dort ein Finanz-Crash. Man kann alle diese Ereignisse als unzusa...

By: Christiane Kliemann

From 30 August to 3 September Budapest will be under the banner of degrowth with two major degrowth-events: The degrowth week and conference. In order to give you some ideas on what to expect there, we´ve asked a few questions to the Degrowth 2016 organizing team:

By: Mark H Burton

By Mark Burton It can be difficult to form a view of what’s really going on in our atmosphere, given the amount of information and of contradictory claims. This piece concerns recent reports on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and levels. On 16th March, a Guardian headline over an article by John Vidal said: Surge

By: Christiane Kliemann

As much as building walls cannot be the answer to the horrible situation of refugees seeking asylum in Europe, it cannot be the means of choice for protecting national economies either. In the face of  a resurgence of sovereigntist and nationalist rhetoric from both the Right and the Left, the French Degrowth Project makes the

By: Sam Bliss

By Sam Bliss Growth means a process of increasing in physical size. When we think of economic growth, it is difficult to fathom what exactly grows, since ‘the economy’ is an invented concept that describes billions of human interactions as if they were one giant entity. But gross domestic product is a rate — the

By: Corinna Burkhart

The Call for the 6th International Degrowth Conference is now open. The international conferences on degrowth are central landmarks and moments of convergence of the international degrowth intellectual and social movements. They offer an unique opportunity for bringing together scholars with other members of civil society and demonstrating a different way of organizing conferences. A

By: FairBindung, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie

Endlich Wachstum: Die Vereine Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie und Fairbindung e.V. haben gemeinsam mit dem Webportal „Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation" eine umfassende Methodensammlung aus über 100 Methoden veröffentlicht. Die Methoden regen auf vielfältige Weise dazu an sich mit Bedingungen unseres derzeitigen Wirtschaftens sowie möglichen Alternative...

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Degrowth was first used and find its roots in the 1970s debate of the limits to growth. At the beginning of the 2000s it was launched as a slogan by activists, and in the following decade turned into a frame for a social movement as well as a concept debated in academia. Although its origins have been traced (Demaria et al 2013), two main issues remain contested and in need of clarification: 1)...

By: Klara Hajdu

Transition to a sustainable economy requires a fundamental change in how we use natural resources in a quantitative and qualitative way. Not only a substantial reduction of resource use is needed in a range of 3 to 5, but also a deep decarbonisation needs to take place, which results in zero GHG emissions by mid century. At the same time the growing national and international inequalities pose ...

By: Adrian

Energy is a key element in improving the living conditions by contributing to e.g. a safe living environment; improved nourishment, education and transportation; a means of production and economic security. The current centralized energy system, comprising profit-driven corporations, is presented as the ideal means of supplying energy by providing the “lowest energy prices”. However, unaccounte...

By: Harpa Stefansdottir

The purpose of this study is to lay out the pros and cons of downtown areas versus the suburban from the perspective of the concept „atmosphere“ which relates to an aesthetic quality, a sense of place. How the experience of atmosphere might influence the level of activity pattern of the residents is important for the discussion on what urban qualities should be accentuated and which disadvantag...

By: Barbara Unmüßig, Lili Fuhr, Thomas Fatheuer

The economic and ecological bases of a general prosperity are in danger, the gap between rich and poor is widening. The concept of the Green Economy offers a new model, based primarily on large-scale technological solutions. But the Green Economy cares little about politics, barely registers human rights, does not recognize social actors and suggests the possibility of reform without conflict. ...

By: Stefan Haunstein

The presentation aims to give insights into the emergence of local cooperatives and social enterprises in peripheralized areas in Germany, where both the profit-oriented economy and the public sector are failing to solve urgent needs and local people are implementing new economic approaches based on participatory and solidary principles. In this sense, the founders of such cooperatives and soci...

By: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Erin Kennedy, Vasna Ramasar, Mine Islar

Even though there has arguably been an increase in the interest in degrowth across the world, certain contexts are almost completely absent from the discussion. In this session we will start filling the gaps by exploring the potential for degrowth in the so called ‘emerging’ (in itself a problematic term) countries. These have opened their doors to growth-oriented capitalism and have the potent...

By: Brannon Andersen

Sustainability science suffers from being “everything to everyone,” leaving the discipline, and its educational curriculum, without a central organizing theory. However, data show that exponential global economic growth now exceeds the limits of Earth’s biophysical and social systems. Thus growth, as the dominant purpose of neoclassical economics, drives both environmental conditions and socia...

By: Bengi Akbulut

While discussions on degrowth transitions have emphasized the centrality of care work in post-growth societies, these often lack an adequate analysis of how this work will be organized, by whom it will be performed, under which conditions it will be realized and how its fruits will be shared. A parallel silence can be spotted in the way that the notion of the commons is understood and articula...