The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
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6 Thesen zur laufenden Debatte um den Kohleausstieg in Umwelt- & Klimabewegung Die Debatte um den klimapolitisch notwendigen Kohleausstieg wird seit Jahren ohne Ergebnis geführt. Die Politik duckt sich bisher aus Angst vor den Reaktionen aus den betroffenen Regionen weg. Sie ignoriert dabei, dass die jahrelange Verzögerung der aktiven Gestaltung des Strukturwandels die Ausgangslage de...
Things are big in the United States of America. Returning home after a year away reacquaints me with big detached single-family homes, big single-occupant vehicles, and big single-species grass lawns. I find wider roads, longer distances, larger supermarkets, and more stuff everywhere. As a student of ecological economics, it makes me a little anxious. Such individualistic extravagance isn’t e...
The signs from the Degrowth-Conference having disappeared from the walls of the portentous building of Corvinus University, and the streets of Budapest emptied from the stalls and the babble of the Degrowth-Week, the time is ripe for another evaluation-round. The conference can be assessed from diverse perspectives – with disparate outcomes, I suspect. Even if I am relatively new to the Degrow...
