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Position paper • 1984

Arbeitszeitpolitik der Grünen

Bericht vom Forum Arbeitszeitpolitik der GRÜNEN Aus dem Vorwort: Die GRÜNEN im Bundestag haben in den vergangenen Monatenvielfältige Initativen ergriffen, die sich auf die Arbeitszeitproblematik und die gewerkschaftlichen Forderungen zur Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit konzenztrieren. Dabei lagen die Aktivitäten der GRÜNEN im Medienecho eher am Rande der von relevanten "klassischen" Formationen...

Position paper • 1983

Sinnvoll Arbeiten-Solidarisch Leben. Gegen Arbeitslosigkeit und Sozialabbau

By: Die Grünen

Einleitung: Bei diesem Programm handelt es sich nicht um das Wirtschaftsprogramm der GRÜNEN, sondern um ein Sofortprogramm gegen Arbeitslosigkeit und Sozialabbau. Es wird von uns zur Diskussion gestellt und muß auf Grund der Kritik aller Interessierten konkretisiert und weiterentwickelt werden. Diese wichtige öffentliche Auseinandersetzung über programmatische Fragen entspricht dem politischen...

Misc • 1976

Social limits to growth

By: Fred Hirsch

Google Books: The promise of economic growth which has dominated society for so long has reached an impasse. In his classic analysis, Fred Hirsch argued that the causes of this were essentially social rather than physical. Affluence brings its own problems. As societies become richer, an increasing proportion of the extra goods and services created are not available to everybody. Material...

Misc • 1976

Haben oder Sein - Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen Gesellschaft

By: Erich Fromm

1976, vier Jahre vor seinem Tod, erschien mit ›Haben oder Sein‹ das neben der ›Kunst des Liebens‹ berühmteste und bedeutendste Buch Erich Fromms, in dem er Gedankengänge früherer Werke bewusst anschaulich und prägnant resümiert. In seiner Darstellung steht die Existenzweise des Habens für die Übel der gegenwärtigen Zivilisation, die des Seins aber für die Möglichkeit eines erfüllten, nicht...

Report • 1975

Ivan Illich: Gordian Troeller - Kein Respekt vor Heiligen Kuehen

By: Ivan Illich, Gordian Troeller, Klaude Deffarge

Eine Sendung aus den 70er Jahren in der Ivan Illichs Kritik an der Industriegesellschaft sowie seine Kritik an Entwicklung thematisiert wird. > Ein Teil der Sendung (8:25) > Sendung in voller Länge (43 Minuten) zum download

Misc • 1975

Ecotopia

By: Ernest Callenbach

The publisher: A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. Ecotopia was founded...

Misc • 1974

The Dispossessed

By: Ursula Le Guin

Fantasy novel: a large group of anarchists gets to live on another planet, named Anarres. The story takes place some generations after the resettlement. An anarchist society established on Anarres. The story follows a young scientist who grows up on Anarres and becomes the first who every travels back to the mother planet Urras. Differences and difficulties of both planets and political systems...

Art contribution • 1974

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Description by the publisher: A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras — a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the...

Art contribution • 1973

Momo

By: Michael Ende

Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte.

Report • 1972

Die Grenzen des Wachstums

By: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III et al.

Bericht des Club of Rome zur Lage der Menschheit. Unendliches materielles Wachstum wird in Frage gestellt.

Report • 1972

Limits to Growth

By: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III et al.

A Report for THE CLUB OF ROME'S Project on the Predicament of Mankind. The possibility of continuous material growth is questioned.

Misc • 1944

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

By: Karl Polanyi

Wikipedia: The Great Transformation is a book by Karl Polanyi, a Hungarian-American political economist. First published in 1944, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements but as the single human...

Misc • 1921

Cartesian Economics

By: Frederick Soddy

Back of the book: Cartesian Economics, The Bearing of Physical Science upon State Stewardship is a compilation of two lectures given by Frederick Soddy to the student unions of Birbeck College and the London School of Economics. The lectures were the first of four works written between 1921 and 1934 that applied the concepts of hard science to the economy. Though Soddy's ideas were largely...

Art contribution • 1854

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

Description by the publisher: A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics. In Hard Times, the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success....

Misc • -1

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

By: Robert J. Gordon

Subtitle: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War The publisher: In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy...

Scientific paper • -1

Mentale Infrastrukturen revisited

By: Christoph Sanders

Aus dem Text: Darüber hinaus sind aber auch kulturelle und psycho-soziale Faktoren für die Trägheit unserer Lebenswelt verantwortlich. Damit sind tief verinnerlichte Vorstellungen von einem guten Leben und Haltungen gemeint, die unser Handeln auf Wachstum und Steigerung ausrichten, der Sozialpsychologe Harald Welzer bezeichnet sie als „mentale Infrastrukturen des Wachstums“. (1) ...

Presentation • -1

Arithmetic, Population and Energy

By: Al Bartlett

Professor Bartlett has given his celebrated one-hour lecture, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101" over 1,742 times times to audiences with an average attendance of 80 in the United States and world-wide. His audiences have ranged from junior high school and college students to corporate executives and scientists, and to congressional staffs. He first gave the talk in...

Misc • (no release date)

Caring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!

By: Corinna Dengler, Giacomo D'Alisa

The third annual Global Degrowth Day on the theme of care will take place on 5th June 2021. Here, Corinna Dengler and Giacomo D'Alisa expand on the centrality of care to degrowth. Degrowth is an activist and political claim supported by academic research that aims at creating global human well-being within planetary boundaries. Degrowth problematizes interlinking systems of domination such...

Misc • (no release date)

Collective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum

By: Gabriela Cabaña, Diego Arahuetés, Mariana Calcagni, María Paz Aedo, CASA - Centro de Análisis Socioambiental

What does degrowth mean in the Latin American context? In 2020, a series of six self-organized encounters attempted to dive into this question. Each meeting reflected the metaphor of the agricultural process: from sowing to harvesting. Among the conclusions was a unanimous desire to put into practice ‘other ways of inhabiting the world’, valuing the knowledge of the original peoples and...

Misc • (no release date)

The case for abandoning GDP – An intersectional perspective Pt. 2

By: Sonja Hennen

GDP is a flawed guide to prosperity. What else should we measure if we want to do better? “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income”. Those were the words of Simon Kuznets, who developed the first national income accounts in the United States. And yet, we look back on decades of appropriating GDP as a measure of social welfare and progress. With the...