Auf den stillgelegten Hafenanlagen entlang des Ufers des East River in New York entsteht der Brooklyn Bridge Park. Über 2 Kilometer erstreckt sich die Grünanlage mit Sport- und Freizeitangeboten und bester Aussicht auf die Skyline von Manhattan. Etwas weiter südlich im Herzen Brooklyns liegt der Prospect Park, ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel für Familien. Auch hier hat sich in den letzten dreißig Jahren einiges getan. Eine groß angelegte Umgestaltung verhalf dem Park seinen gefährlichen Ruf abzulegen. Brooklyn ist grüner geworden – und teurer. Könnte es also sein, dass die Entwicklung einer grünen Infrastruktur die Gentrifizierung Brooklyns befeuert hat? Weiterlesen auf dem Blog Postwachstum
We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly...
It is great to see an attempt to put degrowth ideas into a straightforward form that can be taken into political debate. However, the selection of points is critical and I am not convinced that this is the right selection. I'll just take issue with two: 1. Zero bank-debts “No bank should lend more than its deposits. Banks cannot be allowed to create money out of thin air, while all the re...
By Andreas Roos “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication revolutions merge with new energy regimes”. This is the beginning of an article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian back in 2011, echoing the promise he laid out in his then newly written book The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and World. The book claims, i...
