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Educational paper • 2016

Trainings

By: 350.org

A web page with a wide range of methods for team building, facilitation, strategy, organizing etc.. Available in four languages and free to use and to further distribute.

Misc • 2016

Resonanzpädagogik - Wenn es im Klassenzimmer knistert

By: Hartmut Rosa

Hartmut Rosa weckt mit seiner Forschung zu gelingendem Leben große Aufmerksamkeit. Übertragen auf Bildungsprozesse und Schulsystem, führt seine Theorie der Resonanz zur Neubetrachtung von Schule und Unterricht – zur Resonanzpädagogik. Doch wie zeigt sich Resonanz in der Schule? Dieser und weiteren Fragen ist Wolfgang Endres im Gespräch mit Hartmut Rosa nachgegangen. Daraus ist ein Buch...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth : stories we should tell : how do degrowth ideas spread in public discourses?

By: Hermine Bähr

Keywords: critical discourse analysis, social change, degrowth, sustainability science, framing, critical realism

Interview • 2016

Post-/Wachstum?

By: Florian Opitz

Bericht über das DFG Kolleg Postwachstum und Eindrücke einer internationalen wachstumskritischen Veranstaltung des Kollegs.

Scientific paper • 2016

Alternatives to Enculturation of Children into Consumers

By: Madalina Balau

In Romania all parents want to offer their children a better life and a better future, sometimes with their own sacrifice, yet the years following communist regime have brought unsustainable development, present in environmental degradation and social insecurity. After living in communism and knowing how bad it was, people have been accustoming for the last 26 years, to accept the lesser evil,...

Scientific paper • 2016

Contemplative practices to support Degrowth and stem the tide of de-Indigenization

By: Derek Rasmussen

My presentation seeks to weave my 20 years of work with Nunavut Inuit with my meditation teaching among non-Indigenous Euro-Canadians. ‘The Great Transformation’ of market relations compelled a great transformation of learning: disembedding and extracting it from communities and converting it into a scarce new substance called Education. Education is hydroponic cultural transmission for...

Scientific paper • 2016

Education for socio-ecological transformations

By: Christoph Sanders, Daniel Bendix, Anne Pinnow, Bethany Wilson

Up to now, the discourse on Degrowth doesn't adequately address the relevance of culture for economic growth. Yet, analyzing how cultural patterns shape our lifestyles, habits and thinking is crucial for socio-ecological transformations. In this context, education plays a preeminent role: How does the content of education, its organization and structure prepare individuals for a growth society...

Misc • 2016

Degrowth in movement(s)

By: Nina Treu, Ashish Kothari, Silke Helfrich, Irmi Salzer

Panel discussion at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016: Research In Action Special Session: Degrowth in movement(s): Discussing degrowth in the context of related social movements and perspectives Speakers: Silke Helfrich, Irmi Salzer, Nina Treu, Ashish Kothari Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Alternatives to Enculturation of Children into Consumers

By: Madalina Balau

Presentation by Madalina Balau In Romania all parents want to offer their children a better life and a better future, sometimes with their own sacrifice, yet the years following communist regime have brought unsustainable development, present in environmental degradation and social insecurity. After living in communism and knowing how bad it was, people have been accustoming for the last 26...

Report • 2015

Spiel des guten Lebens

By: Marc Menningmann

Spiel des guten Lebens from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. Während der Degrowth Konferenz gab es neben Vorträgen, Podiumsdiskussionen und Workshops auch viele unkonventionelle Aktionen. Eine davon war das "Spiel des guten Lebens", bei dem das "Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie" das Thema "Degrowth" mit in die Leipziger Fußgängerzone genommen hat, um mit Passant_Innen ins Gespräch zu kommen.

Misc • 2015

Schneller und besser die Welt retten?! Mit welchen Mustern reproduzieren wir die Wachstumslogik?

By: Lara Kirch, Melanie Hernandez Sanchez

Dokumentation eines Kurses der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 "Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit" Titel des Kurses: Schneller und besser die Welt retten?! Mit welchen Mustern reproduzieren wir die Wachstumslogik? Kursbeschreibung aus dem Programm: Wir bieten einen Raum, in dem die Teilnehmer*innen ihre eigenen, tief verinnerlichten Wachstumslogiken reflektieren und sich in ihren Bemühungen, eine...

Scientific paper • 2015

Ways to a Zero Growth society - a comparative evaluation of different scenarios

By: Théodore Fischer

Abstract: In this thesis, we will see how economic growth, as it is understood today, cannot be sustained into the future. This is mainly due to environmental limits, but also to the fact that economic growth is usually debt-financed and is erroneously measured. In 1972 already, Meadows et al. have proposed a model of society that would be freed from this growth spiral: the Steady State...

Scientific paper • 2015

Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften: Schlüsselakteure für nachhaltige Transformationen

By: Ralph Wilhelm

green economy, prosuming, sustainable consumption, transformation

Misc • 2015

An opportunity for “Generation Europe XXI” in (re)claiming public spaces in Europe – Degrowth Perspectives

By: Manon Dervin

From the article: . . . In a world of – and in – crisis, being inspired by Degrowth’ ideas, it would supposed to studying the possible perspectives and the role of the Youth in a decolonization of imaginaries (Serge Latouche)[1] which would push us outside our cultural, religious, historic zone of comfort. How to reinforced links rather than to create goods in a world entered the digital era,...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Wenn der Lebensfaden reißt ... Lars Opgenoorth im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Lars Opgenoorth

Interview mit Lars Opgenoorth im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Der Paläoökologe und Evolutionsbiologe Dr. Lars Opgenoorth ist im Fachbereich Biologie an der Philipps Universität Marburg mit Fragen der Biodiversität befaßt. Auf dem Klimacamp im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier nahm der Forscher an diversen Workshops...

Misc • 2015

Bildung in gesellschaftlicher Transformation

By: Helmut Peukert

Jede nachwachsende Generation steht vor der Frage, ob die bestehende Lebensform für sie zukunftsfähig ist. Zugespitzt stellt sich diese Frage angesichts beschleunigter Modernisierung mit ihrer Auflösung bisheriger Deutungs- und Orientierungsmuster. Krisenhafte Entwicklungen nehmen überall überhand bis hin zur Gefährdung des Bestands unseres Globus. Peukert plädiert für einen radikalen...

Scientific paper • 2015

The Pedagogy of Degrowth: Teaching Hispanic Studies in the Age of Social Inequality and Ecological Collapse

By: Luis I. Prádanos

Abstract: Transforming education is crucial to generate a society able to deal with the complex socio-environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. In the current context of unacceptable inequality and ecological collapse we cannot continue teaching as if we were not losing from 40 to 200 species a day. Based on my experience as a professor teaching courses on Environmental Humanities and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Natural Economies, the Alternative to Money. Card game simulation conclusions

By: Pau Bofill

Abstract: This document shows a comparison of bartering, alternative (free) money, official money (based on credit), and natural economies (give and take). The comparison is based on a workshop where the different kinds of exchange are simulated by means of playing cards. This paper describes the simulation game, and some reflections by the authors from previous editions of the workshop. This...

Scientific paper • 2014

Educationism, may facilitate the understanding of the Degrowth proposal.

By: Cristovam Buarque, João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: The end of the 20th century showed the failure of ideologies. The ideologies of industrial civilization - capitalism, socialism and developmentalism - became prisoners of production and of income distribution, plundering the environment and offering, without delivering, accessible consumption to the masses. The failure of industrial-civilization utopia suggested that the very sense of...