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
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Eine Auswertung ist ein schwieriges Genre. Bei MOVE UTOPIA, dem fünftägigen Zusammen!Treffen! für eine Welt nach Bedürfnissen und Fähigkeiten, ist es eine Herausforderung: Über 1000 Menschen aus sehr unterschiedlichen Bewegungen trafen sich – manche für mehr als eine Woche, einige nur für einen Tag–, um der Vision einer tauschlogikfreien Gesellschaft nachzuspüren. Schauplatz des Treffens war de...
Dragon Dreaming offers simple, objective and playful tools for visionary processes, planning, implementation, evaluation and celebration to make our dreams come true. Thus it helps building a degrowth society. We have a world economy where eight men have a wealth equivalent to more than 50 per cent of the world’s people, while three billion try to live on less than three dollars a day. We ar...
By Lyda Fernanda Forero There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences. This consensus is reinforced by the human and environmental disasters (tragedies) that occur every year due to extreme climate events, such as the typhoons of growing intensity including Haiyan(2013) in the Philippines or the hurricanes that devastate Central America....
