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Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Squaring the Energy Circle

By: Mario Giampietro, Grégoire Wallenborn, Francesco Ferioli

Chair: Florent Marcellesi, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Mario Giampietro (Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)), Grégoire Wallenborn (Free University of Brussels (ULB)), Francesco Ferioli (European Commission, DG Energy, Policy Officer in the Economic Analysis Unit)

Misc • 2017

Postwachstumspolitiken - Wege zur wachstumsunabhängigen Gesellschaft

By: Nina Treu, Frank Adloff, Matthias Schmelzer, Corinna Burkhart, Steffen Lange, Jana Gebauer, Ulrich Brand, Felix Ekardt, Helge Peukert, Oliver Richters, Ulrich Schachtschneider, Andreas Siemoneit, Dirk Posse, Harald Bender, Norbert Bernholt, Uta von Winterfeld, Robert Koepp, Christoph Köhler, Steffen Liebig, Frank Adler, Damian Ludewig, Jana Flemming, Fritz Reheis, Michael Kopatz, Christoph Sanders, Dagmar Comtesse, Maik Hosang, Eva Lang, Theresia Wintergerst, Hans-Peter Studer, Daniel Fuhrhop

Herausgeber_innen: Wie werden demokratische Übergänge zu einem Leben und Wirtschaften möglich, deren Qualität und Stabilität nicht vom permanenten ökonomischen Wachstum abhängen? Reicht dafür eine Bottom-up-Strategie? Reichen all die Non-profit-Unternehmen, Tauschläden und Kulturen des Selbermachens als Keime einer im Entstehen begriffenen Postwachstumsökonomie und -gesellschaft? Wir meinen:...

Scientific paper • 2017

Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society

By: Ernest Garcia, Peadar Kirby, Samuel Alexander, Joaquim Sempere, Alain Gras, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias, John Wiseman, Rebecca Bramall, Jorge Riechmann, Laurence Raineau, Climent Sanjuán, Ignasi Lerma Montero, Jesús Vicens

Subtitle: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing Editors: Ernest Garcia, Mercedes Martinez-Iglesias, Peadar Kirby From the introduction: . . . This stark choice confronts humanity with what is perhaps the greatest dilemma it has ever faced in its history: can we try to mobilize our resources in the most unprecedented ways over a short time span of no more than half a century to avoid the worst of...

Misc • 2017

Going for “the simpler way”

By: Ted Trainer

Summary: In his contribution to the series Ecology after capitalism, Ted Trainer argues that ecosocialism is not the answer and calls for the left and degrowthers to embrace all the radical implications of the “limits to growth” analysis. This implies following “the simpler way”, his own proposal for achieving a post-capitalist society based on the principles of eco-anarchism.

Scientific paper • 2017

Neo-monastics in North Carolina, de-growth and a theology of enough

By: Amy Cox Hall

Key Words: De-growth, neo-monasticism, emerging church, millennial generation, Christianity, sharing economy

Scientific paper • 2017

Methodological Luddism: A concept for tying degrowth to the assessment and regulation of technologies

By: José Luís Garcia, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Tiago Mesquita Carvalho

Keywords: Degrowth; Methodological Luddism; Technology assessment; Reform of technology; Responsibility; Focal things and practices

Misc • 2017

Entropia by Samuel Alexander

By: Kevin Karaca

Review from Kevin Karaca on the book "Entropia - Life beyond Industrial Civilisation" by Samuel Alexander Introduction: Peak Oil is around the corner. The rise in the political-right sends hints that the neoliberal project is coming to an end. Economic growth is being questioned by many. What could a post-growth society look like?

Misc • 2016

Von nichts zu viel – für alle genug

By: Hans Holzinger

Perspektiven eines neuen Wohlstands Der Verlag: Die Kunst des guten Lebens und einer guten Wirtschafts- und Regierungsführung kann gelingen, wenn wir uns gemeinsam über deren Ziele und Inhalte verständigen. Grundvoraussetzung ist zunächst, dass alle ihr Leben in Freiheit gestalten können, niemand Hunger leidet und niemand Angst haben muss hinauszufallen. Dies verlangt nach kollektivem Teilen...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth, energy descent, and ‘low-tech’ living: Potential pathways for increased resilience in times of crisis

By: Samuel Alexander, Paul Yacoumis

Keywords: Low-tech; Appropriate technology; Energy descent; Degrowth; Resilience; Techno-optimism

Report • 2016

Why the degrowth debate is gaining momentum

By: Nick Meynen

From the text: Reporting from The 5th International Degrowth Conference in Budapest - which continues today and tomorrow - NICK MEYNEN explores the new narrative of ‘sufficiency' being discussed and and asks will it catch on before it's too late?

Misc • 2016

Just enough is plenty: Thoreau's alternative economics

By: Samuel Alexander

This text provides a deep but accessible introduction to the life and ideas of one of the simple living movement's greatest pioneers - Henry David Thoreau.

Scientific paper • 2016

Frugal Abundance in an Age of Limits: Envisioning a Degrowth Economy

By: Samuel Alexander

Abstract: How would the ordinary middle-class citizen deal with a lifestyle of radical simplicity? Radical simplicity does not mean poverty, which is involuntary and full of suffering and anxiety, and thus universally undesirable. Rather, it means a very low but biophysically sufficient material standard of living. This chapter directly addresses the issue of “two types of austerity”, arguing...

Scientific paper • 2016

Sufficiency, degrowth and sustainable consumption

By: Joachim Spangenberg

Keywords: Sustainable consumption, sufficiency, Great Transformation, satisfiers and needs, good life, labour, design, human rights Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series Issue 6, 25

Interview • 2016

Uwe Schneidewind - Interview Degrowth

By: Uwe Schneidewind

Kurzes Interview mit Uwe Schneidewind zu Fragen wie "Was verstehen Sie unter Wachstum?" oder "Wie sieht für Sie eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft aus?".

Scientific paper • 2016

Postwachstum als Herausforderung für Unternehmen

By: Dirk Posse

Herausgeber_innen: Eine Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum wird durch Entwicklungen wie sinkende Wachstumsraten, ökologische Grenzen und sich verstärkende soziale Schieflagen zur realen Herausforderung - fpr die Zukunftsfähigkeit einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft, aber gleichfalls für Unternehmen als Problemverursacher und potenzielle Problemlöser Aus Postwachstum folgt allerdings kein Wachstumverbot....

Educational paper • 2016

Guter Kunde, böser Kunde - luxemburg argumente Nr. 13

By: AG Kritischer Konsum

RLS: Wachsende Müllberge, steigender Meeresspiegel, vergiftete Böden, Kriege um Ressourcen, tote ArbeiterInnen in Fabriken und Bergwerken: Produktion, Transport, Bewerbung, Vertrieb und Entsorgung unserer täglich konsumierten Güter und Dienstleistungen haben schwerwiegende Folgen. Gegenwehr scheint aussichtslos. Denn die Welt wirkt unendlich komplex und die Möglichkeit, politisch Einfluss...

Scientific paper • 2016

How can local Network growth economy serve to global degrowth?

By: Adam Cajka

An average village in India does not really benefit from the current economic system. The story of Kuthumbakkam, a village in Tamil Nadu, shows how people can locally create viable economy based on the regional sources and inter-village exchange. Main charasteristics of the Network growth economy are high localisation of production and consumption and focus on self-sufficiency. Initial...

Scientific paper • 2016

Sufficiency Policy for Sustainable Degrowth

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Felix Ekardt, Anja Humburg, Joachim Spangenberg, Joachim Spangenberg

Sufficiency is the anti-thesis to the dominant orientation towards getting ever “more, further and faster”. Often treated as a lifestyle issue for the better-off, it essentially requires (1) a fundamental policy change to offering new opportunity spaces, from advertisement- and commerce free spaces via repairable design to reverting work intensification, and (2) a change in societal standards...

Scientific paper • 2016

The possibilities of sufficiency

By: Åsa Callmer

Sufficiency as a mind-set - as in “good enough” rather than voluntary simplicity - is indeed a challenging thought in a society of consumption-driven individuals taught to equate materialistic accomplishments with status as well as with identity. However, to upgrade the value of sufficiency in the affluent society brings about potential for a reorientation towards sustainability. This paper...

Misc • 2016

movum - Heft 10: Effizienz und Suffizienz

By: Uwe Schneidewind, Elmar Altvater, Nico Paech, Felix Werdermann

Heft 10 des Magazins movum> zum Thema Effizienz und Suffizienz Kurzbeschreibung: Effizienz allein bringt keine substanzielle Reduktion von Ressourcenverbrauch, Emissionen und Abfällen. Wir brauchen auch Suffizienz – die Befreiung vom "Immer mehr". Und zwar nicht individuell, sondern als Politik. Das Heft als PDF