From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
Degrowth has been described as a “movement” rather than an ideology1, and as such it presents several variations. For some of its proponents, degrowth is a proxy for sustainable consumption, and to a lesser extent production2. A second group of degrowth advocates are those for whom an emerging discussion of “sufficiency” as a societal norm is taking shape, as a result of activism3. Finally, a t...
Interview mit Fair Bindung Der gemeinnützige Verein FairBindung e.V. setzt sich für eine nachhaltige, solidarische und global gerechte Gesellschaft weltweit ein. Seine Projekte reichen vom Import und Verkauf von hochwertigem und fair gehandeltem Bio-Kaffee bis hin zur Erstellung von Methoden und Materialien für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Wirtschaftswachstum in der Bildung. Für den Stream [...]