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Presentation • 2014

Commons, Economy for the common good and Solidarity Economy: What do they share?

By: David Bollier, Euclides André Mance, Lisa Muhr, Anja Humburg

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Lisa Muhr, David Bollier, Euclides André Mance Facilitation: Anja Humburg From the conference programme: One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. More and more people do not simply fight "the...

Presentation • 2014

Cultural Agency – potentials and limits of current civic movements

By: Friederike Habermann, Leonidas Martin, Michael Narberhaus, Luise Tremel

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Leonidas Martin, Michael Narberhaus, Friederike Habermann Facilitation: Luise Tremel From the conference programme: New forms of living, working, protesting as well as new economic and democratic practices develop form inside society and form...

Presentation • 2014

Degrowth technologies – global experiences

By: Michel Bauwens, Arianna Ferrari, Alice Hooker-Stroud, Nguyen Thu Trang

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Alice Hooker-Stroud, Nguyen Thu Trang, Michel Bauwens Facilitation: Arianna Ferrari Alice Hooker Strout about Zero Carbon Britain Nguyen Thu Trang: Examples for Green Transformation in Vietnam Michel Bauwens talks about a...

Presentation • 2014

The food challenge. Struggling for just and ecological food systems

By: Reinhild Benning, Christiana Schuler, Lucía Gallardo, Eric Holt-Giménez (via video), Jan Urhahn

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Reinhild Benning, Christiana Schuler, Lucía Gallardo, Eric Holt-Giménez (via video) Facilitation: Jan Urhahn From the conference programme: No matter who we are, we all share the need for food. Looking at the way food is produced, treated and...

Presentation • 2014

Mobility for everyone – with less traffic

By: Sabine Leidig, Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Maggie Klingler-Lauer, Patrick Kayemba, Winfried Wolf Facilitation: Jan Urhahn From the conference programme: Today individual mobility is organized mainly to benefit transnational companies. Consequences are the destruction of the climate and the...

Presentation • 2014

A worldwide energy revolution?

By: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale, Nina Netzer

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale Facilitation: Nina Netzer From the conference programme: The extensive use of dirty energy sources causes severe environmental and social damages while 2,7 billion people have no access to modern energy...

Presentation • 2014

Unconditional Basic Autonomy by income or infrastructure?

By: Werner Rätz, Vincent Liegey, Dagmar Paternoga, Margit Appel

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Vincent Liegey, Werner Rätz and Margit Appel Facilitation: Dagmar Paternoga From the conference programme: The essentials of the idea of an unconditional basic income are clearly related to a degrowth society. A basic income provides autonomy for...

Misc • 2014

Suffizienz vs. Gegenkultur

By: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind, Anja Humburg

Diskussionsveranstaltung auf der 4. Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig im Jahr 2014. Sprecher: Harald Welzer, Uwe Schneidewind Moderation: Anja Humburg Aus dem Konferenz Programm: Die deutsche Postwachstumsdebatte ist eng verknüpft mit der dritten Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: Suffizenz. Doch während manche Autoren auf die...

Presentation • 2014

Post-Extractivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?

By: Ulrich Brand

Contribution to a special session at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speaker: Ulrich Brand Abstract of the paper "Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?": There are at two continents two thrilling debates taking place. In Europe, the degrowth perspective pushes a dynamic political...

Presentation • 2014

How growth enters our imaginaries and how we may get rid of it

By: Hartmut Rosa, Laura Bazzicalupo

Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Laura Bazzicalupo and Hartmut Rosa. Laura Bazzicalupo: Ambivalence of dispositifs of subjectivation in the biocapitalist imaginary Hartmut Rosa: Striving for growth, yearning for degrowth? Resonance as a solution to the good-life problem

Presentation • 2014

Social metabolism and the degrowth society

By: Katharine Farrel, Anke Schaffartzik

Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Katharine Farrel and Anke Schaffartzik. Katharine Farrel: Living Systems and (de)Growth: a matter of life and death Anke Schaffartzik: Scenarios for a biophysical degrowth of industrial metabolism

Presentation • 2014

Scenarios for a post-growth economy

By: Niko Paech, Clive Spash

Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Niko Paech and Clive Spash. Niko Paech: An Introduction to Post-growth Economies Clive Spash: A Future Social Ecological Economy: Reality-Transformation-Utopia Discussion with Niko Paech and Clive Spash

Presentation • 2014

Ideen und Modelle Grundeinkommen – national und global

By: Ronald Blaschke

Diskissionsworkshop auf der 4. Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig im Jahr 2014. Gefilmt vom Youtube Kanel 2malschauen Teil 1: Vortrag Ronald Blaschke Teil 2: Diskussion Aus dem Konferenz Programm: In diesem Seminar werden die Idee, der Begriff und einige aktuell diskutierte Modelle von Grundeinkommen national und global in...

Presentation • 2014

Closing plenary: How do we move on?

By: Giorgos Kallis, Andrea Vetter, Christopher Laumanns, Lucia Ortiz

Recorded closing plenary of the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers are Christopher Laumanns, Lucia Ortiz and Giorgos Kallis. Moderation: Andrea Vetter. From the conference programme: The conference is nearly over. In this panel strategies and next steps will be discussed, taking into account what has happened in...

Presentation • 2014

Closing morning - reports: What happened?

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Recorded closing morning of the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. From the conference programme: Reports from the conference: what happened in the fields of art, science, practice and in the group-assembly-process (GAP)? And a concluding report form the conference team.

Misc • 2014

Wachstum: Nachdenken über einen Begriff

By: Deniz Utlu

Untertitel: Warum Güter-Zunahme und biologische Reife ein identisches Wort beschreibt Der Begriff Wachstum wird durchdacht, die Methaper des Wirtschaftswachstums beschrieben und kritisiert. Zitat aus dem Text: "Eine literarische Metapher, die scheitert, zerstört allenfalls den Text. Eine politische Metapher, die scheitert, bringt womöglich die ganze Gesellschaft in Gefahr."

Scientific paper • 2014

Theoretische Zugänge eines Wachstumszwangs in der Geldwirtschaft

By: Oliver Richters, Ferdin, Wenzlaff, Christian Kimmich

Wachstumszwang, Goldene Regel der Kapitalakkumulation, Zins-Wachstums-Differential, Zentralbankdilemma, Monetärkeynesianismus

Misc • 2014

Die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie

By: Christian Felber

www.christian-felber.at: Eine demokratische Initiative wächst. Christian Felbers alternatives Wirtschaftsmodell wird nach nur vier Jahren von mehr als 1700 Unternehmen und 200 Organisationen unterstützt, zahlreiche Personen und Institutionen sowie Schulen und Universitäten aus halb Europa und weiten Teilen Lateinamerikas beteiligen sich. Felbers Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie beruht – wie eine...

Misc • 2014

Geld: Die neuen Spielregeln

By: Christian Felber

www.christian-felber.at: Geld ist ein Mittel zum Zweck. Es sollte uns dienen und uns das Leben erleichtern. Doch davon sind wir weit entfernt: systemrelevante Banken, Staatsschuldenkrise, Währungsspekulationen, Steueroasen – Geld beherrscht unser Leben. Wir sollten uns das nicht gefallen lassen. Ein demokratisches Gemeinwesen sollte die Spielregeln, nach denen Geld in Umlauf kommt und verwendet...

Misc • 2014

This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate

By: Naomi Klein

thischangeseverything.org: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The...