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.
One of the most controversially discussed key tracks during the 5th International Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest was “Degrowth and other social movements”. Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future? On one hand, the notion of “degrowth movement(s)” was rigorously criticized for fragmenting the political struggle...
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...
Sabine Reiner schreibt mit Blick auf die Krise in Südeuropa: „Kein Wachstum ist auch keine Lösung.“ Die ungewollte Rezession kann trotz ihrer katastrophalen Auswirkungen jedoch kein Grund zur pauschalen Ablehnung einer Postwachstumsökonomie sein. Im Gegenteil, die uns dort vor Augen geführte bedrohliche Entwicklung verdeutlicht die Notwendigkeit einer vom Wachstum unabhängigen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: mit sozialen [...]
