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Misc • 2016

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

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...

Misc • 2016

Exit from the Megamachine - Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy

By: Fabian Scheidler

"Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common presentation of news suggests. From another angle, however, they appear as symptoms of a systemic crisis, with...

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.

Interview • 2016

About Climate Justice & Degrowth

By: Marc Menningmann

About Climate Justice & Degrowth from Raute Film on Vimeo. Raute Film: The Degrowth Summer School 2015 took place at the climate camp in the Rhineland. The Rhineland is one of the biggest lignite mining regions, the biggest source of CO2 in Europe. To protest against climate-damaging industry and resource extraction, different movements, which have a lot in common and share ambitions, get...

Misc • 2016

Interview: „Wir brauchen Widerstand – sonst wird uns der Klimawandel die Perspektive für ein gutes Leben für alle nehmen.“

By: Christopher Laumanns

Vom 19. bis 23. August 2016 findet die 2. Degrowth-Sommerschule auf dem Klimacamp im Rheinland statt. Unter dem Motto „Skills for System Change“ wird es mit einem vielfältigen Programm um gelebte Alternativen zum aktuellen Wirtschaftssystem gehen. Nachdem die Sommerschule zu Ende gegangen ist, beginnt auf dem Klimacamp das „Aktionslabor“, das vom 24.-29. August geht. Was es damit auf sich hat...

Misc • 2016

“We need resistance – otherwise climate change will strip us of the perspective of a good life for everyone.“

By: Christopher Laumanns

The 2nd Degrowth Summerschool will take place on the Climate Camp in the Rhineland from the 19th to the 23rd of August 2016. “Skills for System Change“ will be the motto of a diverse programme dealing with alternatives to the current economic system. Right after the Summer School has ended, the Action Lab will take place from the 24th to the 29th of August. Melanie and Milan, who are involved...

Misc • 2016

Is Sustainability Only for the Privileged?

By: Lucie Bardos

On the Need for Collaboration Between Social Movements and Activisms. The article sheds the light on the fact that most of the people engaged in the international transition town movement are white educated middle class. It concludes that the integration of other perspectives through a facilitated "opening-up process" would make the transition town movement more inclusive. Published on...

Misc • 2016

Undoing the Ideology of Growth: Hegemony, Path Dependencies and Power in the History of the Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

"Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations....

Interview • 2016

„Wir sind in der Pflicht“

By: Ruth Kohn

Ruth Krohn im Kontext des Klimacamps im Rheinland 2016 im Interview mit der Taz. Aus dem Interview: Ein Klimacamp im Rheinland will die Gesellschaft von morgen leben. Veranstalterin Ruth Krohn über mögliche Lösungsansätze und Ziele. taz: Frau Krohn, am Wochenende treffen sich rund 400 Menschen auf einer Wiese irgendwo im Rheinland. Was ist da los? Ruth Krohn: Wir veranstalten zum zweiten Mal...

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...

Scientific paper • 2016

The experience of the Italian Network for Sustainability and Health

By: Jean-Louis Aillon

Ivan Illich argued that a revolution in the health field is crucial and “integral to a society-wide criticism and restraint of the industrial mode of production”. Recently, in order to develop this stream of thought, several authors have tried to re-think health in the conceptual frame of degrowth and, in parallel, practical initiatives and networks have been developed. In this presentation,...

Scientific paper • 2016

Transition movements on the ground: activist’s career and relationship to the political

By: Ludivine Damay, Anne Guisset

In different cities around the world, one can find a lot of citizen initiatives that propose alternatives to the main consumerist and capitalist logic of production and consumption (Pleyers, 2011). They defend other conceptions of society through cooperative, networks for exchanging goods and services, collective vegetable gardens, “repair cafés”, local currencies, etc. This communication is...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - From capitalist accumulation to a solidarity economy

By: Barbara Muraca

Presentation by Barbara Muraca Starting from a critique to Growth as a major driver of our economies, the consequences it brings along, from environmental impacts to control over the marginalized, and as the mono-culture of our times, Muraca develops its limits and shows the alternatives beyond Capitalism. She explores what it means living in a society where basic needs services are valued and...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Are we there yet? How practitioners, multipliers and the public perceive the status and perspectives of a new economy.

By: Jana Gebauer

The presentation shows what needs to be done in the movement in order to achieve more visibility and, more importantly, feasibility. In the same framework, tools like multipliers and institutions should be embraced to foster cooperation and convergence in projects and approaches for an alternative economy.

Scientific paper • 2016

The Indignados as a Socio‐Environmental Movement: Framing the Crisis and Democracy

By: Viviana Asara

This study analyses the framing processes of the Indignados movement in Barcelona, as an exemplar of the latest wave of protests, and argues that it expresses a new ecological–economic way out of the crisis. It finds that the movement was not just a reaction to the economic crisis and austerity policies, but that it put forward a metapolitical critique of the social imaginary and (neo)liberal...

Misc • 2015

Resist! Against a Precarious Future

By: Ray Filar (ed)

On the book by Rhiannon Colvin: Imagine that it’s 2025 and the world of work has changed. Today, we do labour out of passion, not obligation. Nobody has a low-paid job or has to balance multiple jobs just to make rent. Work gives us meaning and direction, but it does not define who we are. The three day working week means we have time to spend with friends and family, to contribute to our...

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.

Scientific paper • 2015

Erste Ergebnisse der Teilnehmendenbefragung zur Degrowth-Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig – Ein Überblick über Zusammensetzung, Engagement und Alltagspraktiken der Befragten

By: Dennis Eversberg

Zusammenfassung: Das Working Paper gibt einen ersten deskriptiven Überblick über die Ergebnisse der Befragung der Teilnehmenden der Degrowth-Konferenz im September 2014 in Leipzig. Es gibt Auskunft über die Zusammensetzung der 814 Befragten u.a. nach Alter, Bildung und Geschlecht, ihr politisches und gesellschaftliches Engagement sowie einen Einblick in ihre Alltagspraktiken – von Mobilität und...

Educational paper • 2015

Re.imagining Activism – a practical guide for the Great Transition

By: Michael Narberhaus, Aryne Sheppard

smart-csos.org about the guide: A practical toolkit for activists and social change leaders who are keen to contribute more effectively to the Great Transition. Based on the research collated and the ideas and experiences generated by the Smart CSOs Lab, we provide guidance and support to activists who want to make a meaningful contribution to this deeper change. Re.imagining Activism provides...

Report • 2015

Skoros: Anti-consumption in crisis

By: Skoros

Short documentary about a anti-consumerist collective in Athens. Skoros about its film: This collaborative ethnographic film is about Skoros, an anti-consumerist collective in Exarcheia, Athens, that run a space where people could come and give, take, or give & take goods and services without any norms of reciprocity. Soon after came the Greek "Crisis", a new kind of "here and now" focusing...