The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
.By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
By Chandran Nair A seminal paper jointly authored by a dozen international scientists and academics and released in April has created a ripple in the conservation community. It is a lengthy essay but what An Ecomodernist Manifesto says is that accelerated technological progress combined with socio-economic change will 'decouple' human economic pursuit from its impact on the environment. Transl...
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Postwachstumspioniere“ interviewt das Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW) in den nächsten Wochen kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) zum Thema Wachstum. Gesucht sind Beispielunternehmen mit alternativen Entwicklungsorientierungen, die von Wachstum unabhängig und gleichwohl zukunftsfähig sind. Uns interessieren Positionen und Beweggründe, Ziele und Strategien für erfolgreiches Unternehmertum jenseits des Wachstumskurses, aber auch die [...]
