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Interview • 2012

Working Less

[ Juliet Schor // Working Less ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Juliet Schor made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Juliet Schor is talking about the "fast fashion model", which is about an intensification of resource use and the short lifetime of goods. Further she talks about changes of consumption habits with the financial...

Interview • 2012

A World Running Out of Oil

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Gail Tverberg

[ Gail Tverberg // A World Running Out of Oil ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Gail Tverberg made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Gail Tverberg talks about the impact of a financial or environmental or resource crisis on insurance systems and pensions. She also discusses how the energy supply and high oil prices will effect...

Interview • 2012

Rethinking Economic Growth

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Josh Farley

[ Josh Farley // Rethinking Economic Growth ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Josh Farley made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Josh Farley explains what money is, respectively where it comes from, as well as how debt works. He further says what degrowth means for him: a downscaling of the economy so it fits with the earth...

Interview • 2012

Creating a New Narrative

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Mary Evelyn Tucker

[ Mary Evelyn Tucker // Creating a New Narrative ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Mary Evelyn Tucker made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Mary Evelyn Tucker starts with talking about the movie "journey of the universe" and that the human species needs a new narrative for being one species. How do we get to stop denial of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Growth and democracy: Trade-offs and paradoxes

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...

Scientific paper • 2012

A Critique of Degrowth and its Politics

By: David Schwartzman

From the text: The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to address global anthropogenic change from a transnational political perspective. In particular, a major challenge humanity now faces is to rapidly implement a prevention program to avoid...

Scientific paper • 2012

Assessing sustainability on a degrowth perspective

By: Paula Inês Cosme Teixeira

Degrowth, Indicators, Sustainability Assessment, Policy goals, Policy instruments

Misc • 2012

Kapitalismus und dann? - Systemwandel und Perspektiven gesellschaftlicher Transformation

By: Harald Bender, Norbert Bernholt, Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie, Bernd Winkelmann

Der Verlag: Die Mehrheit der Menschen in Deutschland – 88 Prozent laut Emnid-Umfrage – traut unserem derzeitigen Wirtschaftssystem nicht mehr zu, die ökonomischen Probleme des 21. Jahrhunderts zu lösen. Klar ist: Eine auf Eigennutz und Kapitalgewinn basierende Wirtschaftsweise führt uns offenkundig in kaum noch zu bewältigende globale Krisen. Was aber ist die Alternative? Harald Bender, Norbert...

Scientific paper • 2012

Capitalism, Religion and the Idea of the Demonic

By: Christoph Deutschmann

Abstract: The paper enters the vast debate on capitalism and religion and offers a discrete interpretation of their relationship. On the one hand, it is questioned to consider capitalism as a secularized social system in which religions do no longer play a dominant public role, although its historical rise may have been influenced by religious movements. On the other hand,...

Misc • 2012

Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?

By: Ulrich Brand, Asiye Öztürk, Meinhard Miegel, K.-H. Paqué · B. Jochimsen · M. O. Bettzüge · U. Schneidewind, Christian Kroll, Till van Treeck, Johannes Hoffmann, Gerhard Scherhorn, Nicole Rippin, Claus J. Tully, Christian Neuhäuser

bpb: Vor 40 Jahren veröffentlichte der Club of Rome den Bericht "Grenzen des Wachstums". Der Befund war alarmierend: Die herrschenden Produktions- und Lebensweisen industrialisierter Gesellschaften seien langfristig nicht tragbar. Auch die deutsche Politik beschäftigt sich intensiv mit den ökologischen Konsequenzen unseres Wirtschafts- und Wohlstandsmodells. So soll die Enquete-Kommission...

Interview • 2012

Energy Returns

By: Charles Hall

[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Charles Hall made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Extraenvironmentalist about the video: Dr. Charles Hall of the Dept. of the SUNY-Environmental and Forest Biology describes the EROEI concept he developed along with the ideas behind his creation of the...

Report • 2012

Living Without Economic Growth

By: Charles Eisenstein, Extraenvironmentalist

[ Charles Eisenstein // Living Without Economic Growth ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. In this video Charles Eisenstein is thinking out loud what might mentally happen to people when the economy doesn't grow any longer. Extraenvironmentalist about the video: Charles Eisenstein talks about lower rates of economic growth across the planet. As economic growth stalled in 2012, will 2013...

Interview • 2012

Montreal Degrowth Conference // Mini-Doc

By: Extraenvironmentalist

[ Montreal Degrowth Conference // Mini-Doc ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Voices of Speakers at the Degrowth Conference of the Americas in Montreal in 2012. Including Mary Evelyn Tucker, Joshua Farley, Bill Rees, Peter Victor, Michael M'Gonigle, Juliet Schor, Victoria Grant and David Suzuki.

Interview • 2012

Ecological Economics

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Peter Victor

[ Peter Victor // Ecological Economics] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Peter Victor made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Peter Victor is talking about economic growth today, it's history as well the history of its perception. Further he talks about the infrastructure of economic growth.

Interview • 2012

Creating Culture

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Janice Harvey

[ Janice Harvey // Creating Culture ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Janice Harvey made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Janice Harvey talks about culture and what it is. It is pre-reflective, it gives a frame for what people live in, for taking decisions etc.. Further she talks about how culture can change.

Interview • 2012

What is Degrowth?

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Peter Brown

[ Peter Brown // What is Degrowth? ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Peter Brown made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Extraenvironmentalist about the video: Dr. Peter Brown, professor at the Department of Geography at McGill University explains the idea of degrowth and how it can foster a relationship of economic...

Report • 2012

Kritik der grünen Ökonomie - Impulse für eine sozial und ökologisch gerechte Zukunft

By: Wolfgang Sachs, Barbara Unmüßig, Thomas Fatheuer

HBS: Die erste UN-Konferenz zu Umwelt und Entwicklung, die 1992 in Rio de Janeiro stattfand, galt einst als umweltpolitischer Meilenstein. Doch eine echte Trendumkehr für eine soziale und ökologisch tragfähige Zukunft hat sie nicht eingeleitet. Seither haben sich alle wichtigen globalen ökologischen Trends zum Schlechteren und nicht zum Besseren gewendet. Politik und Wirtschaft lassen sich bis...

Report • 2012

Die Zukunft, die wir wollen: Eine feministische Perspektive

By: Christa Wichterich

HBS: Im Mittelpunkt der UN-Konferenz in Rio de Janeiro (Juni 2012) steht das Leitbild einer Green Economy. Sie soll einen Ausweg aus den globalen Klima-, Ernährungs- und Armutskrisen zeigen. Obwohl bereits vor 20 Jahren auf der ersten Rio-Konferenz Frauen als Schlüsselakteurinnen für den Umweltschutz und die Armutsbekämpfung genannt wurden, spielen ihre Vorschläge und ökofeministischen Ansätze...

Position paper • 2012

Zurück auf Anfang: und los!

By: Ulrich Brand, Kathrin Buhl, Kristina Dietz, Sandra Quintela, Marcus Wissen und andere

RosaLux 2/2012 zum Thema «Rio+20: Konferenz ohne Zukunft». Mit Beiträgen von Ulrich Brand, Kathrin Buhl, Kristina Dietz, Sandra Quintela, Marcus Wissen und anderen. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Die Aufmerksamkeit für ökologische Themen ist sehr wechselhaft. Kurze Phasen einer geradezu übersteigerten, aufgeregten Dominanz in den Medien wechseln sich ab mit einem mehr oder weniger starkem...

Report • 2012

Feministische Perspektiven zum Themenbereich Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität

By: Adelheid Biesecker, Christa Wichterich, Uta v. Winterfeld

Hintergrundpapier von Adelheid Biesecker, Christa Wichterich und Uta v. Winterfeld. Dieser Text entstand als feministische Expertise für die laufende Arbeit der Enquete-Kommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“ (2011-13). Inhalt 1. Einleitung 2. Vom Geld 2.1. Eigenschaften und Qualitäten von Geld 2.2.Vom entfesselten Geld als Kapital – oder: Von Wachstums- und Schuldenzwängen 2.3....