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Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Sustainable structures of living together and degrowth in the energy sector

By: Manu Mathai

This presentation outlines an approach to imagine an energy policy break from the growth status quo.

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Waste as wealth: Edinburgh's Shurb coop

By: Jakob Sparn

This presentation explains what the SHRUB coop does to reduce & re-use "waste", to educate the public, and to create community.

Report • 2017

Budapest Degrowth Conference Report

By: Degrowth Conference Budapest 2016 Team

Report from the Degrowth Conference 2016 in Budapest, written by members of the organising team. Contents I. Introduction Why Budapest? Specific aims of the Budapest local organisation committee (LOC) Principles of organization II. The conference Key themes Program and formats The partnership Re-localization III. Degrowth week Program and elements The participants The partnership IV. Main...

Scientific paper • 2017

Community, commons, and degrowth at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

By: Joshua Lockyer

Key words: commons, degrowth, ecovillages, intentional communities, participatory action research, transition discourses

Scientific paper • 2017

Steering clear of politics: local virtues in Helsinki's design activism

By: Eeva Berglund

Keywords: social movements; Finland; urban/DIY activism; design

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth, anthropology, and activist research: the ontological politics of science

By: Ulrich Demmer, Agata Hummel

Key words: ontological politics, activist research, degrowth, alternatives to modernity

Report • 2017

Zero Carbon Britain: Making it Happen

By: Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)

CAT about the report: The UN Paris Agreement states that humanity must reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century. This is a big shift, but we have no option other than to succeed if we are to avoid really dangerous climate change. Previous Zero Carbon Britain research from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has shown that we can meet this challenge using...

Misc • 2017

A Political Party Argues for Degrowth

By: Sergi Saladié

Translation (from Spanish) of an interview with Sergi Saladié, spokesperson for the CUP (Popular Unity List) group, from the website 15-15-15. Degrowth to be discussed in the Catalonian Parliament. An interview with Sergi Saladié, parliamentary member Popular Unity List – Consitituent Call.

Misc • 2017

Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Abstract: What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can ‘culture jamming’ contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this new book I explore these questions, both in theory and practice. I begin with a theoretical defence of art and...

Misc • 2016

Can Masdeu: A Catalan Eco-Community Showing the Potential of Degrowth

By: Steve Rushton

A report about the Catalan Eco-Community "Can Masdeu" From the text: . . . But Can Masdeu’s importance goes beyond the local: it demonstrates there are alternatives to a growth and profit-based system. It continues to host international convergences and meetings, from squatting to anti-fracking. The community also provides a space for eco-innovations. There are solar ovens and showers, worm...

Scientific paper • 2016

A practice approach to the institutionalization of economic degrowth

By: Maria Joutsenvirta

Degrowth; Institutionalization; Practice theory; Power; Economic alternatives

Misc • 2016

Ecommony - UmCARE zum Miteinander

By: Friederike Habermann

Prinzipien für ein neues Wirtschaftssystem zu (er-)finden ist keine reine Frage der Theorie, denn solche Prinzipien zeichnen sich bereits in den praktischen Ansätzen anderen Wirtschaftens, bei sozialen Bewegungen, in technischen Entwicklungen und nicht zuletzt im Alltag von immer mehr Menschen ab. Wesentlich in all dem ist der Begriff ›Commons‹. Damit wird Eigentum, das auf Ausschluss beruht,...

Misc • 2016

Ökoroutine - Damit wir tun, was wir für richtig halten

By: Michael Kopatz

Dieses Buch macht Schluss mit umweltmoralischen Appellen! Es zeigt: Wir können nachhaltig leben, ohne uns tagtäglich mit Klimawandel oder Massentierhaltung befassen zu müssen. Wir machen ökologisches Leben einfach zur Routine! Was unmöglich erscheint, ist konzeptionell einfach: Mülltrennung, Sparlampen, Effizienzhäuser – alles längst akzeptiert oder in Reichweite. Was wir zur Durchsetzung einer...

Interview • 2016

„Der Planet hat Grenzen“

By: Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey im Kontext der Degrowth Konferenz 2016 in Budapest im Interview mit der taz. Aus dem Interview: taz: Herr Liegey, Sie koordinieren die 5. internationale Degrowth-Konferenz in Budapest. Was ist „Degrowth“? Vincent Liegey: Degrowth hinterfragt das Dogma des ewigen Wirtschaftswachstums. Der Planet, auf dem wir leben, hat Grenzen, die wir nicht einfach überschreiten können. Die...

Report • 2016

Demain / Tomorrow

By: Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion, Bruno Levy

demain-lefilm.com: Showing solutions, telling a feel-good story… this may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. After a special briefing for the journal Nature announced the possible extinction of a part of mankind before the end of the 21st century, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, together with a team of four people, carried...

Misc • 2016

Degrowth - is it time for a new kind of economics?

By: Ruby Russell

From the text: At the Cyclonomia bike kitchen in Budapest, all tools and equipment are communally owned. The around 300 members drop in to the basement workshop to not only fix up their rides, but also to build them - cargo bikes in particular. It's part of an experiment in "new ways of re-localizing the economy," says co-founder Adrien Despoisse. Re-localization, Despoisse explains, is about...

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

Unpackaged: factors that drive consumers to package-free retail

By: Hana Hrstkova

Sustainable food systems signal a need to return to local, organic and low footprint food provisions, implying also reduction of waste and packaging. Rather than looking at the waste issue from the post-consumption perspective (approaches that have dominated over the recent decades), this paper attempts to shed more light on the prevention of consumer packaging waste through unpackaged...

Misc • 2016

Die Welt reparieren - Open Source und Selbermachen als postkapitalistische Praxis

By: Christa Müller, Andrea Baier, Karin Werner, Tom Hansing

Weltweit entstehen immer mehr Initiativen des Selbermachens, in denen eine Vielfalt von Anliegen und Problemen kollektiv bearbeitet werden. In diesen – jenseits von Markt und Staat angesiedelten – kollaborativen Zusammenhängen wird ein basisdemokratisch orientiertes Verständnis von Zusammenleben und Urbanität erprobt und zugleich nach ökologisch und sozial sinnvollen Lösungen für grundlegende...

Report • 2015

Kitchen for all

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the people's kitchen at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.