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By: Benjamin Best

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

By: Pablo Paolo Kilian, Melanie Bleckert

From the conference programme: n the audiovisual project METAMORPHOSEN pianist Pablo Paolo Kilian improvises between reduction and density, increase and exhaustion, minimalistic and full sounds that develop slowly or suddenly, collapse into moments of transition and transformation. Visual artist Melanie Bleckert adds images of change and emergence using the analogue Lightmotiv projection ...

By: David Bollier, Euclides André Mance, Lisa Muhr, Anja Humburg

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Lisa Muhr, David Bollier, Euclides André Mance Facilitation: Anja Humburg From the conference programme: One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. More and more people do not simply fight "the ec...

By: Wolfgang Fellner

Abstract: A time use perspective in economics has to recognise that time is more than an input to commodities, produced by households. Time is not money! If anything, time is life. How we spend our time provides us with skills as well as information. It determines the formation of habits and preferences. The activities we pursue with great motivation and enthusiasm, be it paid work or any other...

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Politics of Sufficiency at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 General strategies > Focus on local policies (bottom-up participation) > Offer alternatives: > > both infrastructural & actual policies to try out alternative activities (like free bus pass) > > particularly to new residents because of higher accept...

By: Chiung Ting Chang

Abstract: How to move from current unsustainable pattern of development to a sustainable one? Here we make an attempt to propose a possible route of transition in the perspective of capital. That is to focus on the investment of human capital and of social capital. The strategies for transformation will be also based on the shifting the resources to human-centered investment. Although the plan ...

By: Nina Vogel, Jin Xue

spatiality, degrowth visions, space, societal transformation

By: Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, Susanne Langsdorf

Abstract: A number of global megatrends are challenging the likelihood and feasibility of options for degrowth: Rising global population and affluence levels, proliferation of westernized lifestyles and production and consumption patterns with associated resource use needs and environmental impacts jeopardize the earth’s carrying capacity. Degrowth in the sense of socially sustainably and equit...

By: Kontext TV

Quelle: www.kontext-tv.de   Gäste: Barbara Muraca, Philosophin an der Universität Jena, Autorin des Buches "Gut Leben. Eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums" Michel Bauwens, Gründer und Direktor der Peer-to-Peer Foundation (P2P) Tony Greenham, New Economics Foundation, London / Transition Network Sarah Ackerbauer, Transition Town / Dresden im Wandel Benjamin Best, Wuppertal Institut ...

By: Stella Veciana, Jaana Prüss, Dan Norton, Herwig Kemmerich

[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105123,105122,105121,105120"] From the conference programme: ELIJAHS BALL, Sculpture, Herwig Kemmerich A long time ago the prophet Elijah coined the expression: “grass will grow on your cities”. Reflecting ecological challenges in post-industrial society, the wrecking ball can represent deconstruction on a material level, it can be read as a symbol agai...

By: Giorgos Kallis, François Schneider, Filka Sekulova, Nuno Videira

Degrowth; Systems thinking; Causal loop diagrams; Pathways; Participatory modelling

By: Rita Calvario

Back-to-the-land, agri-food downscaling, degrowth transition

By: Micha Narberhaus

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Organizing collective action for degrowth.

By: Naomi Klein

thischangeseverything.org: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The...

By: Giorgos Kallis, Viviana Asara

Abstract: In this article I intend to investigate the prefigurative politics of the “indignados” movement in Barcelona, born in May 2011 in Spain to protest against austerity policies, the “dictatorship of markets” and claiming for a “real” democracy. For many indignados the occupations in the squares were conducive to experimenting, acting and living an alternative utopian community, the main ...

By: Steffen Kühne, Tadzio Müller, John Neelsen, Susanne Schultz, Wenke Christoph, Hella Hertzfeldt, Silke Veth, Hans Thie, Sabine Reiner, Mario Candeias, Katharina Pühl, Juliane Eirich

Debatte um Degrowth und gerechte Verteilung – Wege zum sozialökologischen Umbau der Gesellschaft. RosaLux 2/2014. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Mit den Grenzen kapitalistischen Wirtschaftens, den zerstörerischen Folgen des immanenten Wachstumszwangs und der schwierigen Suche nach Alternativen befasst sich die Ausgabe 2-2014 des Stiftungsjournals RosaLux. Im Vorfeld des internationalen Degrowth-Ko...

By: Niklas Toivakainen, Ruby van der Wekken

Time Bank, Political Dialogue, Taxation, Solidarity Economy

By: Michele De Rosa

Abstract: In order to transform the societal paradigm it is necessary to start with the elementary components of the society: the individuals. A critique of modern society begins with a critique of the critics themselves, in this case the scientific community. This investigation provocatively started with a critique of how the concept of sustainability and sustainable Degrowth are applied in re...

By: Susanne Brehm

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Learning for degrowth.

By: Jenny Lay, Till Westermayer

Abstract: Regarding strategies for transformation, we examine the transformative potential of socio-ecological projects. "Pioneers of change", i.e. innovative projects that do not stay in niches but shift the play of powers, encourage the degrowth transformation. When and how do such "forms of practice" become powerful instruments of transformation? Following practice theory, we understand prac...