Küche für Alle von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo Auf der Degrowth Konferenz wurde nicht nur referiert und diskutiert. Es wurde auch gekocht und gegessen. Die "Küche für Alle" ist ein Zusammenschluss von mehreren Küchenkollektiven die, mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung vieler Freiwilliger, mittags und abends für das leibliche Wohl aller Konferenzteilnehmer sorgte. In den Pausen gab es aber auch Leckerbissen für die Ohren ...
Ten years ago G20 leaders committed a staggering $5 trillion of public funds to rescue the banks and restore growth during the largest economic contraction in modern times. The economies of an unprecedented number of countries — and their associated environmental footprints — experienced very low growth over the decade that followed. In a recent study published in the Journal of Cleaner Prod...
Permaculture and degrowth are both movements whose foundational ideas were developed the 70’s, just as the evidence was amassing in the science world to be able to explain the consequences of unchecked growth and human-induced environmental degradation. As such, both movements are reactionary and propose a radical, ethics-based paradigm shift away from the globally dominant culture of over-cons...
By Fabian Scheidler In the face of climate change, financial crises and mass poverty, a growing number of people agree that we need a fundamental social-ecological transformation that includes all areas of society. Luckily, a huge variety of concepts and practices for such transformation already exists. These, however, have not yet been able to leave their niches. Why is this so difficult? Are...
