Camila Moreno, expert on "green" energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.
Would you like to continue on the topic? Discussions and actions for Climate Justice and Degrowth are continued at the Degrowth Summerschool 2015, for example with the panel discussion "Green growth" vs. "Leave it in the soil!" - the issue of natural resources.
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...
By André Reichel In the discourse on degrowth – the deliberate and planned downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet – the notion of »sustainable development« has sort of a bad rap. In fact, sustainable degrowth is intended to replace sustainable development as the central concept under which ecological...
Annette Jensen und Ute Scheub arbeiten als Publizistinnen schon seit vielen Jahren in den Bereichen Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Nachhaltigkeit und Frieden. Besonders gerne schreiben sie Geschichten des Gelingens über ökosoziale Pioniere. Im September 2014 erscheint im oekom-Verlag ihr gemeinsames Buch: „Glücksökonomie. Wer teilt, hat mehr vom Leben.“ Sie veröffentlichen außerdem regelmäßig Beispiele auf der Plattform www.futurzwei.org. [...]
