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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What could an alliance of techies and greens bring for a social, democratic and ecological future? The conference "Bits and Trees" ("Bits & Bäume" in German), which took place in Berlin on November 17th and 18th of this year, tried to shed light on this question. It brought together around 1.700 people interested and organized around digitalization and sustainability. Merely the name of ...
Why do degrowth scholars use the word "decolonise" to discuss the process of changing the growth imaginary? Isn’t decolonisation about undoing the historical colonisation of land, languages and minds? How do these two uses of the word relate? This blog post is the result from a discussion held between some participants at a Degrowth Summer School in August 2017. While some parts of this blog...
Von Christiane Kliemann Während die Staatsoberhäupter noch das Abschlusspapier der Pariser UN-Klimakonferenz als "wichtigen Schritt für die Menschheit" feierten, hatten kritischere Stimmen den Vertrag bereits als "Schwindel", "episches Versagen" und "Handelsabkommen" verurteilt. Damit weisen sie auf die Diskrepanz hin zwischen der Verpflichtung, "den Anstieg der globalen Durschschnittstemperat...
