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Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Nicht auf Kosten der eigenen Strategie ... Aktivistin Maria im Gespräch

Interview mit Aktivistin Maria im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Die vom Klimacamp und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier ausgehende Besetzung des Tagebaus Garzweiler hat die von den deutschen Leitmedien lange ausgeblendete Problematik der Braunkohleförderung und -verstromung auf spektakuläre...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Reibungstoleranzen ... François Schneider im Gespräch

By: François Schneider, Schattenblick

Interview mit François Schneider im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: SB: Was stellt sich das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus, von Theorie und Praxis für dich dar? FS: Wir müssen auf verschiedenen Ebenen und Skalen arbeiten. Die oppositionelle Praxis zur Veränderung politischer Strukturen muß zur gleichen...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Unsäglich verträglich ... Klaus der Geiger im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Klaus der Geiger

Interview mit Klaus dem Geiger im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: SB: Wenn du mit Straßenmusik speziell die normalen Menschen erreichen willst, wie ist dann die Resonanz auf deine Lieder? Sprechen sie die Leute heute noch an? KdG: Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Menschen, daß die einen mit den anderen nicht...

Misc • 2015

Agents of Alternatives – Re-designing Our Realities

By: Christopher Laumanns, Michel Bauwens, Frigga Haug, David Bollier, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Amber Hickey, Ana Malalan, Andreas Unteidig, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Anna Richter, Ben Pohl, Ben Becker, Antonia Schui, Bernd Kniess, Bianca Herlo, Cecilia Palmer, Christina Nägele, Cindy Kohtala, Claudia Garduño, Daphne Büllesbach, Cordula Andrä, Diana Krabbendam, Elisa Garrote-Gasch, Eric Schuldenfrei, Marisa Yiu, Florian Sametinger, Francesca Weber- Newth, Isolde Nagel, Frauke Hehl, Harald Gruendl, Gesche Joost, Gabi Sobliye, Jennifer Schubert, Joel Rosenberg, John A. Harris, Katharina Moebus, Luisa Maria Schweizer, Lisa Gutermuth, Malin Bäckman, Marco Kellhammer, Marcin Jakubowski, Malte Bergmann, Martin Parker, Maya Indira Ganesh, Otto von Busch, Sam Muirhead, Stefanie Gernert, The Public School Berlin, Thinkfarm, Tiina-Kaisa Laakso-Liukkonen, Trade School New York, Valerie A. Brown, Wendy Brawer, Samantha Riccio, Zoe Romano

An independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making,...

Misc • 2015

"No action, just promises" – Critical reactions to the Paris climate agreement

By: Christiane Kliemann

"While world leaders were still celebrating the Paris climate agreement adopted at the UN climate change conference in Paris as a “major leap for mankind“, critical voices had already denounced the paper as “fraud“, “epic fail” and “trade agreement“. With this, they point to the discrepancy between the agreed commitment to hold the “increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C...

Misc • 2015

„Kein Handeln, bloß Versprechen“ – kritische Reaktionen auf das Pariser Klimaabkommen

By: Christiane Kliemann

"Während die Staatsoberhäupter noch das Abschlusspapier der Pariser UN-Klimakonferenz als „wichtigen Schritt für die Menschheit“ feierten, hatten kritischere Stimmen den Vertrag bereits als „Schwindel„, „episches Versagen“ und „Handelsabkommen“ verurteilt. Damit weisen sie auf die Diskrepanz hin zwischen der Verpflichtung, „den Anstieg der globalen Durschschnittstemperatur gut unter 2 Grad über...

Presentation • 2015

Kohlekraft, Rheinland & Degrowth

By: Dorothee Häußermann

Dokumentation einer Keynote der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 „Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit“ Titel des Vortrages: "Kohlekraft, das rheinische Braunkohlerevier und was Degrowth damit zu tun"

Misc • 2015

Unruhe bewahren

By: Murat Ates, Dona Barirani, Patrick Borchers, Daniel Buschmann, Carola Fuchs, Jakob Frühmann, Marcus Hawel, Veronika Glatzner, Markus E. Hodec, Claudia Kottal, Anna Kramer, Lilly Valerie Kroth, Jan Müller, Philosophy unbound, Jenny Preunkert, Lisa-Maria Rakowitz, Johannes Siegmund, Rahel Sophia Süß, Norman Schroeder, David Starzl, Georg Vobruba, Dominik Wetzel, Felix Wittman, Cristina Yurena, Bastian Zwölfer

Wer kennt das nicht: Lieber sitzen wir alleine vor dem Fernseher, anstatt mit Freunden die Welträtsel zu lösen. Entmutigt und ohnmächtig vor Wut, glauben wir schließlich nicht mehr daran, etwas verändern zu können. Wie auch, wenn dieselbe politische Kultur, die so inbrünstig und wortreich und mit so vielen Übertreibungen ihre Notwendigkeit und Alternativlosigkeit schreit, verhindert, etwas...

Presentation • 2015

Gill Seyfang ESEE2015 Plenary: Unleashing grassroots innovations for sustainability

By: Gill Seyfang

Plenary speech by Gill Seyfang Q&A session with Gill Seyfang and Sigrid Stagl Plenary speech and Q&A session at the 2015 European Society for Ecological Economics Conference at the University of Leeds in July 2015.

Art contribution • 2015

Nachhaltiger Aktivismus - a zine about sustainable activism

By: cre-act

More and more people realize we need activism for change, but how can we stay active in the long run? I made a zine exploring sustainable activism, with contributions from activists in Europe. You can read it here and download the pdf version. Dutch and English and German and English. The contributions are written in German, Dutch and English. They are not translated, so ask your friends for...

Scientific paper • 2014

The garbage crisis, the ecological justice and enviromental migrants in Campania (Southern Italy)

By: Romina Amicolo

Abstract: The garbage crisis in Campania, a region of the Southern Italy, is an example of enviromental transformation. It's a human – made enviromental degradation, which determined a sudden drop in the health condition of local inhabitants, with a considerable increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer, respiratory illnesses, and also genetic malformations. Since the mid-1990s the...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Indignados movement: between prefiguration and creation of alternatives

By: Giorgos Kallis, Viviana Asara

Abstract: In this article I intend to investigate the prefigurative politics of the “indignados” movement in Barcelona, born in May 2011 in Spain to protest against austerity policies, the “dictatorship of markets” and claiming for a “real” democracy. For many indignados the occupations in the squares were conducive to experimenting, acting and living an alternative utopian community, the main...

Scientific paper • 2014

Serious Pleasure. Motivation in fun-emphasising social movements

By: Gregor Betz

Abstract: How can solutions for contemporary crises be implemented in modern societies, in which entertainment advanced to the guideline of our life and in which the process of ‘eventisation’ can be considered in almost all social fields? Based on outcomes of an ethnographical sociological research project, fun-emphasising protest events will be analysed, that try to integrate short-term...

Scientific paper • 2014

Contours of Environmental and Water Justice; anti dams movements and resistance challenging politics and imaginaries

By: Daniela Del Bene

dams, environmental justice, political ecology, social movements, energy

Scientific paper • 2014

Public Spaces: Everyday Resistance and alternative Societies

By: Anne Dietrich, Vera Denzer, Jörg Gertel

Abstract: The paper investigates urban public spaces as sites of daily resistance from theoretical and empirical points of view. Particular attention is paid to different forms of protest against social orders that find their expressions in nonconformist appropriations of space. Thus the contribution addresses the conference’s narrative step ‘Facing the Current Crisis: Critique and Resistance’....

Scientific paper • 2014

Food sharing: A potential strategy against the food waste problem and a local contribution to local climate change mitigation?

By: Dominic Egger

Non-market food provision - Transitory strategy - Food waste - Degrowth practice - Municipal strategy of climate change mitigation

Scientific paper • 2014

Commoning in the new society

By: Gustavo Esteva, Irene Ragazzini

Posdevelopment, radical democracy, postindustrial socety, convivial reconstruction

Scientific paper • 2014

Between Daily Practices and Political Action

By: Markus Flück

Abstract: My starting point is that the “green revolution” and free trade policies haven’t been successful towards solving hunger problems and might even endanger the nutrition system of the whole human society. On the consumption side, especially in the north, but also in the wealthy social classes in the south, feeding habits need more and more energy and produce too much rubbish. A hopeful...

Scientific paper • 2014

Grassroots Movements and Urban Development - the Cases of Kitakyushu, Japan and Leipzig -

By: Heide Imai, Noriko Minkus

Abstract: As a result of the “shrinking” societies in Germany and Japan, cities and regions are facing different challenges. While metropolitan areas like Berlin and Tokyo are growing quickly, intermediate cities like Leipzig and Kitakyushu can only keep their population or grow slowly. After a process of deindustrialisation, these cities still carry dozens of empty buildings and vacant spaces....

Scientific paper • 2014

Grassroots digital commons for a bottom-up transition towards sustainability

By: Adrien Labaeye

Digital commons; Sustainability transition; Niches; Self-organization; Innovation