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!
While agreeing with many points of van den Bergh's excellent review of the growth versus climate debate, I would like to point to a fundamental misrepresentation of the quoted research on degrowth: degrowth is not a strategy "aimed at reducing the size of the GDP". In fact, the degrowth proposition is that the relationship between fossil fuels/carbon emissions and GDP growth is mutual, and th...
Aus unserem Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en) Artivism ist keine Bewegung im eigentlichen Sinne. Es ist eher eine Haltung, eine Praxis in den fruchtbaren Grenzbereichen zwischen Kunst und Aktivismus. Artivism entsteht, wenn Kreativität und Widerstand ineinander fallen. Es ist das, was passiert, wenn unsere politischen Aktionen genauso schön werden wie Gedichte und genauso effektiv wie ein perfe...
By Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta André Reichel’s very thoughtful piece ‘Retaking sustainable development for degrowth’ raises several very important issues. We start by acknowledging that we and Reichel are clearly on the same page in criticizing current models of ‘growth’ including in its ‘green’ and ‘eco-modernist’ forms. We concur also on the need for the world to move...