The climate crisis is a consequence of our economic system. Economic solutions, like carbon trading were supposed to be a problem solver. Despite such efforts, CO2 levels kept rising. Should we consider changing our economic system instead? And which role do environmental NGOs play in the battle for climate justice?
Joanna Cabello, activist and researcher on environmental justice and part of the Carbon Trade Watch collective, speaks about false solutions and grassroots activism. Joanna´s blog article "Where to begin with climate justice" is available here.
Unter dem Begriff der Care Revolution entstand in den letzten Jahren eine Bewegung, die Sorgetätigkeiten zum Ausgangspunkt für gesellschaftliche Transformation nimmt. Unter Sorge – dieses Wort verwenden wir synonym zu Care – verstehen wir beispielsweise Pflegen, Trösten, Kochen, Betreuung oder Beratung, kurz gesagt all jenes, womit sich Menschen um das Wohlergehen und die persönliche Entwicklun...
Dragon Dreaming offers simple, objective and playful tools for visionary processes, planning, implementation, evaluation and celebration to make our dreams come true. Thus it helps building a degrowth society. We have a world economy where eight men have a wealth equivalent to more than 50 per cent of the world’s people, while three billion try to live on less than three dollars a day. We ar...
From 30 August to 3 September Budapest will be under the banner of degrowth with two major degrowth-events: The degrowth week and conference. In order to give you some ideas on what to expect there, we´ve asked a few questions to the Degrowth 2016 organizing team: How come that you chose to differ between the Degrowth-conference and the Degrowth-week? We strongly felt that it was important ...
