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Misc • 2015

Die Commonie

Untertitel: Versuchsanordnung für eine Post-Kollaps-Gesellschaft des guten Lebens. Der Verlag: »Die Frage ist nicht mehr, ob der Zusammenbruch kommt, sondern wie wir danach leben werden«, schrieb Johannes Heimrath in seinem letzten Buch »Die Post-Kollaps-Gesellschaft«. Hier nun entwickelt der Autor seine positive Vision für die Zeit »danach« in gebührender Tiefe. Eine Post-Kollaps-Gesellschaft...

Scientific paper • 2015

Practical approach towards degrowth transition : a case study of an emerging ecovillage in Kalmar, Sweden

By: Sarah Costa

organic Farm, Kalmar, sustainability science, grassroots initiative, degrowth, ecovillage

Interview • 2015

Aufbruchtage - ohne Staat und menschenfreundlich ... David Barkin im Gespräch (1 und 2)

By: Schattenblick, David Barkin

Interview mit David Barkin im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Text: In seinem Leipziger Vortrag hat Prof. Barkin davon gesprochen, daß in den kleinen, regionalen Gemeinschaften, die in das kapitalistische System nicht integriert sind, die oberste Maxime lautet, die Grundbedürfnisse aller Menschen zu befriedigen. Das sei bei ihnen - im Unterschied zu den Gesellschaften der...

Interview • 2015

»Care Revolution« - Gabriele Winker über Schritte in eine solidarische Gesellschaft

By: Gabriele Winker

Transcript Verlag: Viele Menschen geraten beim Versuch, gut für sich und andere zu sorgen, an die Grenzen ihrer Kräfte. Was als individuelles Versagen gegenüber den alltäglichen Anforderungen erscheint, ist jedoch Folge einer neoliberalen Krisenbearbeitung. Notwendig ist daher ein grundlegender Perspektivenwechsel – nicht weniger als eine »Care Revolution«. Gabriele Winker entwickelt Schritte...

Misc • 2015

Building momentum for sustainability transition in Greece

By: Michalis Theodoropoulos

Report about transition and degrowth initiatives in Greece. From the text: . . . Within that framework we operate as ILIOSPOROI NETWORK since 2004, when we were formed as an affinity group of researchers, trainers, activists and practitioners. The aims of iliosporoi (Greek: sunseeds) network are to provide a bridge of communication, networking and cooperation among the various aspects of the...

Interview • 2015

Permaculture in Ethiopia - Community gardening, agriculture & climate adaption measures

By: Asmelash Dagne

Interview with Asmelash Dagne from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: Small-holding farming and permaculture gardens have something in common: they provide their people with food and they are a self-providing or subsistance economy. Permaculture is also being used to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is helping...

Scientific paper • 2014

Is there still no alternative? Self-management under a degrowth perspective: a comparative approach between two case studies in France (Fralib) and Greece (VioMe)

By: Catherine Apostolidi

alternatives, capitalism, citizen initiatives, degrowth, self-management, solidarity economy, transition

Scientific paper • 2014

Farm-hacking open agricultural machines: the role of peer-based open design communities in achieving sustainable production

By: Michel Bauwens

Abstract: Corporate R&D communities design for scarcity with planned obsolescence not as a bug but as a feature. Open design communities design for inclusion, modularity, bio-degradability, the shared use of machinery and combined with distributed microfactories, prefigure a demand-based economy 'of scope' that aims to replace a suppy-driven economy 'of scale'. This intervention will offer...

Scientific paper • 2014

Eco-communities: implementing degrowth from the grassroots

By: Claudio Cattaneo

Abstract: Eco-communities are specifically planned and set up for people to come and live together with the goal of living and working according to ecological principles by promoting a degree of sharing (see also work-sharing) and pursuing well-being through more sustainable life-styles, direct democracy and a degree of autonomy. Participative DIY non-monetary practices are applied for...

Scientific paper • 2014

The social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP)

By: Simone D'Alessandro

Abstract: The repeated failures of global agreements for GHG emissions abatement call for a new strategy that involves local communities in implementing effective transitions to sustainability (the Warsaw Climate Change Conference in November 2013 is the last example). This paper investigates the environmental, social and economic consequences of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SAEP) at the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Discussion of the new Portuguese sustainability experiences

By: Lúcia Fernandes

Abstract: The work aims to present the general aspects of a recently started postdoctoral research project at the Research Centre in Sociological and Organizational Sociology (SOCIUS) and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), Portugal. Some empirical data is from the research project Communication and Political Engagement with Environmental Issues - COMPOLIS (I am part of the project research...

Scientific paper • 2014

The power of neighborhood – rethinking the way of life within co-housing projects in Switzerland

By: Sanna Frischknecht

Abstract: Focusing on the question of how people live and interact, co-housing projects, such as “Kraftwerk1”, “Nena1” and others attempt to withdraw imperatives of growth by establishing a new way of life in urban contexts. Some of the projects are closely connected to the ideas of an urban utopia “bolo’bolo” which was written by P.M. in the 1980ies. This ideal of a new way of life describes a...

Scientific paper • 2014

WELL-BEING AS A SOCIAL MUST. BUT IS WELL-BEING HEALTHY?

By: Francesca Gardiol

Abstract: Today the frantic search for well-being seems to be a social must: living well has become the new imperative, sadness, anger, anxiety, are feelings to be deleted. Subjective well-being is actually a normative construct, that is the product of the values and core principles in a culture. In the consumer society the most important aim is a "happy life"; the necessary condition for being...

Scientific paper • 2014

Human Scale Development... away from bullets and machines

By: Soledad Granada

Abstract: The expansion of the modern state implies the continuous conquer of territory, and people, in order to access to resources. This conquer expresses as the continuous substitution of production models from peasant self-sustainable to agro-industrial and/or extractive, resulting in the territorial homogenization of production. This substitution, associated to different conceptions of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education in complete environments (Handlungspädagogik)

By: Tobias Hartkemeyer

Abstract: Our culture is dominated by an economic doctrine based on economic growth, short-term-profit and externalization of social and ecological side effects. Our educational system prepares our children to form part of this culture. The transformation of our consumer culture towards a mindful society with a solidarity based economy can not be taught merely intellectual. The paradigm shift...

Scientific paper • 2014

Analysis of Change- Intercultural Design Exchange Germany and Japan - Approaching the Question of Future Living

By: Heide Imai, Anthusa Loeffler

Abstract: This is the topic this paper wants to discuss in the context of Tokyo, which is characterized by Roland Barthes as a city without a center. After the enormous growth in the second half of the twentieth century of Tokyo, we have to discuss the De-growth and the chance for future living at different examples found in Japan and Germany. In summary, this paper focuses on the question in...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education for Life and the Free Learning Communities for Life

By: Claudia Gómez Portugal

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities, the environmental, social and existential crisis, among others, increasingly evident the unsustainable of the development model. Address this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and forms of organization. Its necessary a new education to generate a genuine change, mainly...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education for Life: participation in the transformation of a common

By: Claudia Gómez Portugal

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities. Increasingly often environmental, social and existential crisis among others, evidence unsustainability of the development model. Face this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and organizational forms that include a new education, that primarily respond the paradigm...

Scientific paper • 2014

The End of 'Education': Learning from Home Education

By: Leslie Safran

Abstract: Many families turn to home education neighbourhood groups for support, resources and guidance. This paper will briefly outline the context of home education in the UK and US, describe three different types of home education neighbourhood group as communities of practice (Wenger, 1998), and examine how the members of these communities learn through participation in such groups. It will...

Scientific paper • 2014

Prevention of Degradation Through Community Participation: A Pragmatic Approach for Environmental Governance in Northeast India

By: Alok Sen

Abstract: Environmental governance is the most daunting task faced by most of developing countries today specially where poverty is widespread and natural resources abundant. Poor people there depend heavily on the environmental resources for their livelihood and the resultant degradation in turn depletes the food stock for the poor thus further aggravates poverty. The growth oriented...