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Report • 2016

Solidarische Ökonomie

By: Dagmar Embshoff, Clarita Müller-Plantenberg, Giuliana Giorgi

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Solidarische Ökonomie geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei...

Misc • 2016

Zwei Seiten einer Medaille

By: Christiane Kliemann

Herausgeber_innen: Was kann die Degrowth-Bewegung von anderen sozialen Bewegungen lernen? Was können diese wiederum voneinander und von Degrowth lernen? Und wie können alle besser zusammenarbeiten? In dem Multimediaprojekt »Degrowth in Bewegung(en)« gehen Vertreter von Initiativen diesen Fragen nach. Christiane Kliemann untersucht den möglichen Beitrag der Ökodorf-Bewegung.

Scientific paper • 2016

Zwischen Tragfähigkeit und Konvivialität

By: Barbara Muraca

Herausgeber_innen: Die Postwachstumsdebatte ist geprägt von sehr unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen auf die Rolle und den Umgang mit Technik. Einerseits halten ein Teil der Befürworter des Postwachstums das technowissenschaftliche Paradigma für einen Teil des Problems und stellten sich eine künftige Postwachstumsgesellschaft jenseits der Technik vor, während sie gleichzeitig den weltweit zu...

Scientific paper • 2016

Community Building According to Hannah Arendt

By: Pierre Tosi

«Are contemporary homo sapiens necessarily a homo faber as well? Can inspiration for a new narrative be found in the cultural past?» Interesting suggestions about this were given by Hannah Arendt, above all in her "The Human Condition" (1958). The Jewish philosopher thought that the contemporary commingling of "homo faber" (maker of handworks and instruments) and "homo laborans" (producer of...

Scientific paper • 2016

Housing for Degrowth

By: Claudio Cattaneo, Francois Schneider, Anitra Nelson, Anitra Nelson, Natasha Verco

Communal eco-housing and households offer degrowth strategies and prefigure necessary change. Living in collective housing means sharing goods and services, eco-efficiencies and politico-cultural experience of commons forms of governance. Scholars active in eco-collective housing (squats, housing commons and co-living) in various European, Oceanic and USA sites talk about: creating sustainable...

Scientific paper • 2016

Intervening at the regional level

By: Mark H Burton

I am part of a small collective that is promoting an alternative socio-economic approach to the society-economy-environment nexus in "post-industrial" Greater Manchester, England. I will describe the approach we have taken which is to promote alternative thinking via publication, networking, and working in alliances with actors from a variety of sectors. I will reflect on what we have learned...

Scientific paper • 2016

Organizational practices, social values and economic measures in Community Supported Agriculture: A historical overview

By: LE, Nhu Tuyen

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept was born in the 1980s in the United States and has been expanded throughout the world. CSA is a “concept describing a community-based organization of producers and consumers. The consumers agree to provide direct support to the local growers who will produce their food. The growers agree to do their best to provide a sufficient quantity and...

Scientific paper • 2016

Synergies between the degrowth movement and the global ecovillage network

By: Stella Veciana

The primary question of this analysis relates to specific key issues fostering actual and potential synergies between the degrowth and the ecovillage movement. As analysis frame, first some distinctive perspectives around de-growth are introduced on the basis of interviews with experts of the Global South and the Global North. More than reinforcing the criticism of growth societies and...

Scientific paper • 2016

The “Movimento per la Decrescita Felice” (MDF)

By: Jean-Louis Aillon

MDF is a federation of 25 associations (“Clubs”) and 29 informal groups, spread in Italy both in urban and rural areas. MDF deems it is crucial to establish local roots, providing all interested people with the possibility to meet each other, discuss and work together for developing, practising and promoting a new cultural paradigm. The MDF local clubs are intended as means to achieve this...

Scientific paper • 2016

The role of community enterprises in rural development

By: Melinda Mihály

Neoliberal regional development policies are not just environmentally unsustainable, but are also producing uneven regions (Harvey 2011, Smith 2008). The case of Hungary seems to confirm this. Regional disparities in Hungary has been growing in the postsocialist transition period and our accession to the EU has not improved this situation either (Tímár 2007). In the same time there is a...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Non-Monetary Degrowth is Strategically Significant

By: Anitra Nelson

Presentation by Anitra Nelson Even for many radical adherents of degrowth, money is a common-sense — not simply capitalist — tool, so alternative currencies and banks abound. This paper argues against this common-sense logic, as follows. The most direct and efficient form of degrowth requires as-local-as-is-feasible production focusing on people’s basic needs, implying that future distribution...

Report • 2015

Kitchen for all

By: Marc Menningmann

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

Report • 2015

Is Europe staring at a second Renaissance?

By: Ashish Kothari

The publisher: Across Europe, as economies find themselves tottering in the face of deepening financial and social crises, various alternative initiatives are gaining ground, providing hope for a different future. Ashish Kothari writes on some of these.

Scientific paper • 2015

An overview of local credit systems and their implications for post-growth

By: Julien-François Gerber

Credit, Debt, Money, Growth, Degrowth, Post-growth, Capitalism

Scientific paper • 2015

Collective ownership in renewable energy and opportunities for sustainable degrowth

By: Conrad Kunze, Sören Becker

Community energy, Remunicipalisation, Energy cooperatives, Energy geography, Degrowth, Renewable energy, Energy transition

Misc • 2015

Die Welt der Commons

By: Silke Helfrich, David Bollier (Ed.)

Untertitel: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Die Logik des Kapitalismus heißt teilen. Nur teilen darin nicht die Menschen, sondern sie werden geteilt. Der britische Historiker E.P. Thompson befindet deshalb: "Es war immer ein Problem, Commons in kapitalistischen Kategorien zu erklären." Wer die Welt der Commons betritt, begegnet einer anderen Logik, einer anderen Sprache und...

Report • 2015

Der Wert öffentlicher Güter

By: Petra Böhnke, Jens Kersten, Tanja Klenk, Claudia Neu, Berthold Vogel

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: Das Gemeinwesen braucht öffentliche Güter: die Wasserversorgung genauso wie den Kindergarten. Doch die öffentlichen Einrichtungen sind unterfinanziert. Deshalb lebt der Staat schon länger von seiner Substanz. Auf Dauer untergräbt diese Entwicklung die Grundlagen unseres Alltagslebens: Die Lebensqualität sinkt, und letztlich wird auch die wirtschaftliche...

Report • 2015

Küche für Alle

By: Marc Menningmann

Kurzes Video zur Volxküche auf der Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig 2014.

Scientific paper • 2015

Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model

By: Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Vasilis Niaros, George Dafermos

Commons; Peer production; Resilient communities; Degrowth; Desktop manufacturing; 3D Printing

Misc • 2015

Das Buch NUR

By: Hans E. Widmer

Inhalt: Wie schrumpfen ohne auf die Nase zu fallen? 5 Mit einem andern Wachstum das Schrumpfen finanzieren 11 Wirtschaft. Wessen Wirtschaft? 15 Was heisst da «smart»? 21 Ein neuer New Deal für die Schweiz? 27 Wer macht mit? 36 Erwähnte Literatur 41 Anhang 42