http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tuned in!
Last summer, Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter, both from the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig, published the book ‘Degrowth/Postwachstum’. With this book, they provide the first introduction to degrowth in German. For lack of a good German translation of ‘degrowth’ they use ‘Postwachstum’ more or less as a synonym. First they describe how our societies came to depend on growth, and they...
As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...
Dieser Text ist eine gekürzte Fassung des Beitrages zur Jugendumweltbewegung für „Degrowth in Bewegung(en)“ Wir sind beide langjährig mit der BUNDjugend ehren- beziehungsweise hauptamtlich verbunden und sprechen daher vor allem für diesen verbandsgeprägten und organisierten Teil der Jugendumweltbewegung. Gleichzeitig fühlen wir uns als Teil der Degrowth-Bewegung. Dieser Text ist eine subjekti...
