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Call for Papers: Technology and Degrowth

15.07.2015

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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Gathering degrowth in the American pluriverse

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By: Sam Bliss

“When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s thirty-odd attendees wrote their responses on sticky notes as they scraped the last bites of lunch off the dishes the event’s organizers had told them to ...

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UTOPIKON: Geldfrei(er) in die Welt von morgen

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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...

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Why Sustainable Development and Radical Alternatives are not Compatible

By: Ashish Kothari

By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...