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Vegetable Cooperative "Rote Beete"

24.08.2015

Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete [Vegetable Cooperative „Rote Beete“] from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo.

What has agriculture to do with the climate? A lot. Modern, industrialized agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. This video shows an excursion which took place in the context of the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig last year. Participants visited the vegetable cooperative "Rote Beete" outside Leipzig and got to know how solidarity agriculture works. This production and consumption of local organic vegetables is direct action for the climate.

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Degrowth around the world - celebrating the 2020 Global Degrowth Day

By: Activist Working Group

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By: Colleen Schneider, Elena Hofferberth, Jonathan Barth, Lukas Hardt

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