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 ...
Degrowth: lost in plurality? There seems to exist a gap in the degrowth discourse around the question of how to move towards a degrowth society. This brings to our attention an important concept - that of strategy. Here, we will use the word ‘strategy’ to refer to how the ends (i.e. a degrowth society) is achieved by the means. Having spent a number of years probing into the degrowth discourse...
Permaculture and degrowth are both movements whose foundational ideas were developed the 70’s, just as the evidence was amassing in the science world to be able to explain the consequences of unchecked growth and human-induced environmental degradation. As such, both movements are reactionary and propose a radical, ethics-based paradigm shift away from the globally dominant culture of over-cons...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
