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Scientific paper • 2015

Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften: Schlüsselakteure für nachhaltige Transformationen

By: Ralph Wilhelm

green economy, prosuming, sustainable consumption, transformation

Misc • 2015

The Left should embrace degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis

From the article: A new Left has to be an ecological Left, or it won’t be left at all. Environmental change ‘changes everything’ for the Left too, Naomi Klein argued. Capitalism requires constant expansion, an expansion predicated on exploitation of humans and non-humans, that irreversibly damages the climate. A non-capitalist economy will have to sustain itself while contracting. But how can...

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth: between a scientific concept and a slogan for a social movement

By: Giorgos Kallis, Panos Petridis, Barbara Muraca

From the introduction: Degrowth is a new keyword. It is on the one hand a keyword that has a scientific basis on the recognition that continuous economic growth is not only unsustainable but also undesirable, and on the other, a keyword that aspires to mobilize a social movement, a ‘movement of movements’, that will act politically to stop the self-destructive path of growth economies, creating...

Scientific paper • 2015

Sustainable housing in a post - growth Europe

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Viviana Asara, François Schneider, Filka Sekulova

housing sector, land use, debt, Keynesian policies, “austerity” policies, Degrowth, system mapping

Scientific paper • 2015

Economy, society and environment in the 21st century: three pillars or trilemma of sustainability?

By: George Martine, José Eustáquio Diniz Alves

Sustainable development. Environmental degradation. Demographic dynamics

Report • 2015

What if the only way to save the planet is to dramatically slow our economies

By: Assya Barrette

From the article: Because when it comes to addressing climate change, we need to realized that very few non-radical ideas will keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Thoughtless, consumption-fueled growth is not a viable option in our finite world. One way or the other, this reality must be addressed.

Scientific paper • 2015

The Trouble with Growth

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Abstract: In July 2013, a remarkable conference took place in a meeting hall of the French National Assembly in Paris. Current and former government ministers from France, Sweden, Greece, Spain, and Brazil, under the aegis of the president of France, François Hollande, met to explore nothing less than modern economic heresy: the abandonment of governments’ longstanding commitment to continuous...

Misc • 2015

Wörterbuch Klimadebatte

By: Sybille Bauriedl (Hg.)

Klimawandel, Klimaschutz, Postkolonialismus, Wachstumskritik, Umweltpolitik, Sozial-ökologische Transformation, Natur, Politik, Umweltsoziologie, Sozialgeographie, Kulturgeographie, Soziologie

Report • 2015

A New Alignment of Movements? Part I: The General Challenge

By: David Bollier

From the text: Is it possible to imagine a convergence of movement practice and goals – blending constructive, social and political movements – in ways that advance the idea of “unity in diversity”? Is it possible to imagine the reconstruction of socially progressive majorities at the local, national and European level? [. . .] A key question posed was whether the commons paradigm could...

Scientific paper • 2015

Climate Change, Capitalism and Degrowth Trajectories to a Global Steady-State Economy

By: Max Koch

climate change, capitalism, steady-state economy, degrowth, post-growth society

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth and Sustainable Consumption - Inspiration for mutual learning.

By: Sylvia Lorek, Edina Vadovics, G. Bublies (Ed.)

Proceedings from the SCORAI Europe Workshop held at the 4. Degrowth Conference, September, 2014, Leipzig, Germany. Including session contributions and a documentation of the discussions. From the document about the workshop: Degrowth is impossible to achieve without a commitment to strong sustainable consumption. At the same time, the potential for strong sustainable consumption governance...

Position paper • 2015

The leap manifesto

By: Diverse

A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another The manifesto calls for a radical social-ecological transformation in Canada. Central are climate justice, 100% green energy, public infrastructure, a fair economy and democracy. > the manifesto in other languages

Report • 2015

Entschleunigung - Die Welt ist mir zu viel

By: Julia Friedrichs

Untertitel: Und ich selbst bin mir genug. Warum viele Menschen sich heute vor allem für Stressabbau und Handarbeit interessieren – statt für die drängenden Fragen der Gegenwart. Artikel über eine wachsende Entscheunigungs und Achsamkeitsbewegung und woher der Wunsch nach Rückzug, Ruhe und Stabilität kommt. Laut der Autorin durch immer größere Instabilität und Beschleunigung. Im Artikel wird...

Report • 2015

Good, natural, malignant: five ways people frame economic growth

By: Laurence Matthews, Alison Matthews

The authors make a short analysis of how "growth" is framed in public debate. Frames discussed are: 1. Growth is good news, 2. Growth is natural, 3. Growth is the way forward, 4. A malignant growth, 5. Free from growth. From the text: Growth is good. We need growth for wealth, for jobs, to help the poor – without it society will collapse. Or, at least, that’s the message we’re surrounded by,...

Position paper • 2015

Brave Green World

By: Ulrich Brand

The Green Economy myths. Luxemburg Argumente no. 3, updated edition. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: The Green Economy, we hear, will end climate change, prevent the extinction of species and, as an added bonus, create millions of jobs. This miraculous instrument will solve the global financial and economic crisis, as well as our ecological problems, all in one go. However, what exactly is the...

Position paper • 2015

Schöne Grüne Welt

By: Ulrich Brand

Über die Mythen der Green Economy. 4. aktualisierte Auflage. Reihe «luxemburg argumente». Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Sie stoppt den Klimawandel und das Artensterben und schafft nebenbei hohe Wachstumsraten und Millionen Arbeitsplätze: die Green Economy. Sie gilt als Wunderwaffe, die uns aus der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise wieder herausholt und die ökologischen Probleme gleich mit löst....

Position paper • 2015

La meilleure des économies

By: Ulrich Brand

Économie verte : mythes et réalité. numéro 3 « luxemburg argumente » Auteur : Ulrich Brand Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Arrêt du réchauffement climatique et de la perte de biodiv ersité, forte croissance et création de millions d’emplois : les promesses de l’économie verte sont multiples. Il s’agirait du remède miracle contre la crise financière, économique et écologique. Mais qu’est-ce que...

Scientific paper • 2015

Diverse Economies of Urban Mining in Australia

By: Ruth Lane

About the article: Ruth Lane’s empirical study of three electronic waste recovery facilities in Australia shows that diverse economies are already part of mainstream economic practices. Rather than arguing that recycling is a material example of “circular economies,” a concept that is already heavily critiqued in discard studies, Lane shows that while sections of the commodity chains created by...

Position paper • 2015

Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistakes the poison for the cure

By: Samuel Alexander

From the article: By championing economic growth, the Sustainable Development Goals are a barely disguised defence of the market fundamentalism that underpins business-as-usual. But in an age of planetary limits, sustained economic growth is not the solution to our social and environmental ills, but their cause. We need an alternative vision and an alternative set of goals. So here are five...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Zerstörungsprofiteure positioniert ... Fabian Flues im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Fabian Flues

Interview mit Fabian Flues im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Im Rahmen der Degrowth-Sommerschule leiteten Molly Walsh und Fabian Flues von der Organisation Friends of the Earth International einen viertägigen Kurs zum Thema "The corporate growth agenda and European energy policy". Im Gespräch mit dem Schattenblick...