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Interview • 2014

Open Source Vol. 5 | DEGROWTH SOURCES AND CONVERGENCE

By: Vincent Liegey, Adrien Despoisse, Sara Feher

Content among other topics: Degrowth sources - Karl Polanyi and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Networking, Degrowth workshop in Budapest, what does degrowth mean for the global North and South, opposition to degrowth . . .

Interview • 2014

Open Source Vol. 6 | TRANSITION - TRACY WHEATLEY & Co. | 26/02/2015

By: Vincent Liegey, Sara Feher, Tracy Wheatley

Topics: Transition Town movement in Budapest and Transition (Towns) in general.

Interview • 2014

Degrowth muss praktisch werden!

By: Tadzio Müller

Gespräch mit Tadzio Müller über Degrowth, Kapitalismus und politische Praxis. Dabei geht es um mögliche Ziele der Degrowth Konferenz in Leipzig und den Wunsch oder die Erwartung das Degrowth praktisch(er) wird und damit auch eine soziale Bewegung.

Interview • 2014

Degrowth - Wachstumskritik und konviviale Technik

By: Andrea Vetter

Gespräch mit Andrea Vetter über Wachstumskritik, lebensgerechte Technik und den anstehenden Kongress. Es geht u.a. um die Frage was sich in Deutschland in der Wachstumskritischen Debatte seit dem Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums!?" getan hat. Außerdem geht es um die Organisation und Botschaften der Degrowth Konferenz 2014, um Degrowth Praxis, Degrowth Gedanken im Aktivismus und konviviale...

Misc • 2014

Glücklich ohne Geld! - Wie ich ohne einen Cent besser und ökologischer lebe

By: Raphael Fellmer

Dieses Buch, das sowohl eine Autobiografie als auch ein Reise- und Alltagsbericht ist, enthält viele wertvolle Informationen: Der ausdrückliche Verzicht auf das Geld soll wichtige und aktuelle Themen wie Lebensmittelverschwendung, virtuelles Wasser und die graue Energie beleuchten und ökologische Methoden wie Veganismus, gemeinsamer Konsum, Postökonomie und viele andere vorstellen, um uns zu...

Misc • 2014

Zeit für Nachhaltigkeit – Zeiten der Transformation - Mit Zeitpolitik gesellschaftliche Veränderungsprozesse steuern

By: Lucia A. Reisch, Sabine Bietz

Schon heute leben Menschen in gesellschaftlichen Nischen den Wandel zu nachhaltigeren Lebensstilen vor. Diese Lebensstile zu fördern und zu verbreiten, ist Aufgabe einer Politik der Transformation. Um effective Politikinstrumente entwickeln zu können, benötigt sie Kenntnis über die Zielvorstellungen, Motive und Verhaltensmuster der handelnden Akteure sowie über die Gestaltung von...

Scientific paper • 2014

Commons against and beyond capitalism

By: George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici

Abstract: This essay contrasts the logic underlining the production of ‘commons’ with the logic of capitalist relations, and describes the conditions under which ‘commons’ become the seeds of a society beyond state and market. It also warns against the danger that ‘commons’ may be coopted to provide low-cost forms of reproduction, and discusses how this outcome can be prevented. Community...

Report • 2013

The Degrowth Paradigm

By: Richard Swift

The Canadian author and journalist Richard Swift takes the listener on a journey to different degrowth projects. During the visits concepts of the degrowth movement are explained and practical examples are highlighted. In the elaborate programme different actors of the international degrowth movement get to speak.

Scientific paper • 2013

Who says what is absurd? A case study on being(s) in an alternative normality

By: Corinna Burkhart

normality, norms, practical defamiliarization, degrowth, cross-normality experience, change

Misc • 2013

Regionalisierung als Abkehr vom Fortschrittsdenken?

By: Gerolf Hanke

Der Verlag: Dass Krisen zum Kapitalismus dazugehören, ja dass sie notwendig sind, um immer wieder neue Anpassungen des Systems zu ermöglichen, ist mittlerweile zur Binsenweisheit ökonomischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorie geworden. Aber gilt dies auch für die ökologische Krise, die sich unabhängig der medialen Aufmerksamkeitsschwankungen Jahr für Jahr bedrohlicher ausnimmt? Mit...

Report • 2013

Everyday Rebellion

By: Riahi Brothers

Documentary, 118 minutes: "Two-thirds of successful system changes in history were NON-VIOLENT". The inspiring and moving documentation is about non-violent forms of protest and civil disobedience in the 21st century (e.g. Iran, Syria, Egypt, Spain, Occupy, Femen). Dokumentation, 118 Minuten: "Zwei Drittel der erfolgreichen Umbrüche in der Geschichte waren gewaltfrei". Die sehenswerte Doku...

Misc • 2013

The Village Against the World

By: Dan Hancox

The publisher: One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British author Dan Hancox to Spain, and here for the first time he recounts the fascinating story of villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and...

Report • 2013

Another World

By: Michalis Theodoropoulos, iliosporoi network

Published with a Creative Commons license, iliosporoi.net. Iliosporoi network: Documentary "Another World" about the grassroots initiatives in Greece that form another world right here right now, away from the crisis and capitalism (Greek narration, English subtitles in captions).

Report • 2013

In Transition 2.0

By: Transition Network

The "Transition Network" about the film: In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You'll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. It's an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment...

Misc • 2013

Stadt der Commonisten

By: Christa Müller, Andrea Baier, Karin Werner

Neue urbane Räume des Do it yourself Der Verlag: Es ist nicht mehr zu übersehen: Eine neue Generation von Do-it-yourself-Aktivisten nutzt die postfordistische Stadt als Labor für soziale, politische, ökologische und ästhetische Experimente. Ob im Gemeinschaftsgarten oder im FabLab, ob in Offenen Werkstätten oder bei Tausch-Events – überall hinterfragen die Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten...

Misc • 2013

The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance – Hacking The Future Of Money

By: Brett Scott

Popular anger against the financial system has never been higher, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform. Brett Scott is a campaigner and former derivatives broker who has a unique understanding of life inside and outside the financial sector....

Misc • 2013

How to start a repair café?

By: Sven Eberlein

Shareable's guide to setting up a repair café.

Art contribution • 2012

Digital museum of unneeded and questionable things

By: Corinna Burkhart, Can Decreix

From the text: “This museum was founded in 2012 when some people did not know where to put the fridge, which was unneeded and was taking needed space in the kitchen. So where to put it? Where does it belong? Of course, in the museum and so the museum of unneeded and questionable things was born. . .”

Report • 2012

Voices of Transition

By: Nils Aguilar

voicesoftransition.org: This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition movement in the UK, where communities are already moving towards local resilience. The pioneers of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Toward a new sustainable Degrowth: An integrated educational programme for the improvement of traditional earth construction in Emdibir-Gurage-Ethopia

By: Mauro Bertagnin

From the text: . . . Earthen architecture is the most original expression of the human ability to create an appropriate built environment with limited resources and the most sustainable and locally available material”. For these reasons earthen architecture can be considered the most appropriate solution for the housing in a perspective of “prosperity without growth”. . . . Contribution to the...