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By: Lucia Piani

Are the territories ready to deal with a transition to an economy, which respects the biophysical limits of the planet and the failures of the globalized capitalist system? This study concerns the possible implementation of “Economic Solidarity Districts” (Distretti di Economia Solidale, DES) in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) that is located in the North East of Italy. The DES are geogr...

By: Madalina Balau

In Romania all parents want to offer their children a better life and a better future, sometimes with their own sacrifice, yet the years following communist regime have brought unsustainable development, present in environmental degradation and social insecurity. After living in communism and knowing how bad it was, people have been accustoming for the last 26 years, to accept the lesser evil, ...

By: Judit Gáspár, Szandra Koves, Réka Matolay

This paper presents the concept of “the cuvee organisation” that emerged as a result of a 2016 participatory backcasting research. Backcasting belongs to the family of normative scenario building exercises that envision futures of social establishments. Its novelty lies in the fact that rather than using the current state of affairs as a starting point in envisioning potential futures, it creat...

By: Samuel Alexander

From the text: . . . Others have shown why limitless growth is a recipe for disaster. I’ve argued that living in a degrowth economy would actually increase well-being, both socially and environmentally. But what would it take to get there? In a new paper published by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, I look at government policies that could facilitate a planned transition beyond gro...

By: Christa Müller, Andrea Baier, Karin Werner, Tom Hansing

Weltweit entstehen immer mehr Initiativen des Selbermachens, in denen eine Vielfalt von Anliegen und Problemen kollektiv bearbeitet werden. In diesen – jenseits von Markt und Staat angesiedelten – kollaborativen Zusammenhängen wird ein basisdemokratisch orientiertes Verständnis von Zusammenleben und Urbanität erprobt und zugleich nach ökologisch und sozial sinnvollen Lösungen für grundlegende F...

By: Ronald Blaschke

Einführung in die Idee des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens bei der Konferenz "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" am 20. Mai 2016 in der Katholischen Akademie Hamburg.

By: Nicholas A. Ashford

Keywords: degrowth; sustainable consumption; sustainable production; inequality; sustainability; employment

By: Christiane Kliemann

Was hat Cola mit gesellschaftlichen Utopien zu tun? Elena Tzara im Interview mit Tobi Rosswog Vom 04. - 06. November fand in Berlin die erste Utopie-Ökonomie-Konferenz UTOPIKON statt. 300 Menschen tauschten sich in 20 Workshops und 5 Keynotes zu Wegen und Herausforderungen in eine geldfrei(er)e Gesellschaft aus. In einer kleinen Inverviewreihe stellen wir einige der Referent*innen vor. Wir b...

By: Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion, Bruno Levy

demain-lefilm.com: Showing solutions, telling a feel-good story… this may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. After a special briefing for the journal Nature announced the possible extinction of a part of mankind before the end of the 21st century, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, together with a team of four people, carried...

By: TheRulesOrg

The publisher about the video: What do rising sea levels in Bangladesh, the break up of public utilities in Ghana and austerity in the UK have in common? They’re all part of the same global story. The story of one global economy that connects various economic, political, environmental and societal crises faced by communities around the world. By asking questions of this story - how is everyth...

By: Sam Bliss

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...

By: Rajni Bakshi

Report from the degrowth conference in Budapest 2016 from an Indian perspective. From the text: A decade after the term ‘degrowth’ was first deployed by a small group of European academics, it draws unconventional thinkers, not mainstream policy makers. The recent Degrowth Conference in Budapest made perpetual growth, not degrowth, seem utopian.

By: Peter Victor, Sharmini Peries, Robert Pollin, Yves Smith

A video and transcript of a discussion between Peter Victor in a degrowth position and Robert Pollin for in a green growth position. The video is made with therealnews.com and took place in the context of a recent report from the World Resource Institute, accoring to which 21 countries have managed to reduce carbon emissions while growing their gross domestic product.

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Aktuell gibt es in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung eine Kontroverse zu Wachstumskritik. Vor einer Woche hat Rainer Hank unter dem Titel „Wachstum im Schneckentempo ist in" in der FAZ einen sehr kritischen Beitrag zur „Degrowth-Bewegung" geschrieben. Darauf antwortete Matthias Schmelzer in einer Replik, die in gekürzter Fassung am 23. Oktober 2016 in der Frankfurter Sonntagszeitung e...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Teaser: Manche Ökonomen haben eingesehen: Die Wirtschaft kann nicht immer weiter wachsen. Ihre Schlagworte sind Degrowth und Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Eine Gegenrede zu Rainer Hank. Der Artikel auf den sich diese Gegenrede bezieht ist hier zufinden.

By: Uwe Schneidewind

Kurzes Interview mit Uwe Schneidewind zu Fragen wie "Was verstehen Sie unter Wachstum?" oder "Wie sieht für Sie eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft aus?".

By: Frank Adloff

The concept of convivialism has attracted some attention in recent years. When giving it a closer look – even superficially – it soon reveals its proximity to the degrowth concept and movement. But what exactly constitutes this proximity and where are the differences? Below I will give a short summary of what we can understand by degrowth in practical and theoretical terms. Then I will continue...

By: Katherine Lindsay-Smith

Keywords: degrowth; gender relations; political economy

By: Nafeez Ahmed

Report form the British All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth which launched a report on the same topic. From the text: A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on track to experience “an eventual collapse of production and living s...

By: Werner Rätz

Dieser Text ist eine gekürzte Fassung des Attac-Beitrags für "Degrowth in Bewegung(en)" Als Attac Ende der 90er-Jahre gegründet wurde, schien das Dogma der Alternativlosigkeit gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse festzustehen. Auch viele Menschen, die mit diesen Verhältnissen keineswegs einverstanden waren, konnten sich ihre Überwindung kaum vorstellen. Deshalb war die Botschaft, eine andere Welt s...