Küche für Alle von Marc Menningmann auf Vimeo Auf der Degrowth Konferenz wurde nicht nur referiert und diskutiert. Es wurde auch gekocht und gegessen. Die "Küche für Alle" ist ein Zusammenschluss von mehreren Küchenkollektiven die, mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung vieler Freiwilliger, mittags und abends für das leibliche Wohl aller Konferenzteilnehmer sorgte. In den Pausen gab es aber auch Leckerbissen für die Ohren ...
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 Mark Burton It can be difficult to form a view of what’s really going on in our atmosphere, given the amount of information and of contradictory claims. This piece concerns recent reports on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and levels. On 16th March, a Guardian headline over an article by John Vidal said: Surge in renewable energy stalls world greenhouse gas emissions That sounds good...
By Lyda Fernanda Forero There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences. This consensus is reinforced by the human and environmental disasters (tragedies) that occur every year due to extreme climate events, such as the typhoons of growing intensity including Haiyan(2013) in the Philippines or the hurricanes that devastate Central America....