Ever wanted to listen to the book "Vocabulary of Degrowth" because you prefer having an audio book over a physical one? Well, we hear you and share your feeling. That's why we started the "Vocabulary of Degrowth Audiobook Podcast". Currently we are recording individual chapters of the book and publish them as a podcast. This way we eventually get to record the entire book. The English version of the book is already 99% complete. Join us to add the other the languages such as German!
To get a taste of it, have a look at the website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you just want to listen to it. If you're seriously interested in joining, send an email to Robert Orzanna.
What could an alliance of techies and greens bring for a social, democratic and ecological future? The conference "Bits and Trees" ("Bits & Bäume" in German), which took place in Berlin on November 17th and 18th of this year, tried to shed light on this question. It brought together around 1.700 people interested and organized around digitalization and sustainability. Merely the name of ...
By Chandran Nair A seminal paper jointly authored by a dozen international scientists and academics and released in April has created a ripple in the conservation community. It is a lengthy essay but what An Ecomodernist Manifesto says is that accelerated technological progress combined with socio-economic change will 'decouple' human economic pursuit from its impact on the environment. Transl...
Aktuelle Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien von Unternehmen sind insbesondere auf die Steigerung der Effizienz und den Ausbau der Konsistenz in der Wertschöpfungskette ausgerichtet. Sie erscheinen jedoch unter den gegebenen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen nur begrenzt geeignet, um den ökologischen Herausforderungen angemessen zu begegnen (vgl. Stengel 2011; Schneidewind/Palzkill 2011). Daher ist eine Unternehmenskommunikation wichtig, die Suffizienz anstatt Effizienz oder [...]
