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Scientific paper • 2012

The Priced versus the Priceless

By: Derek Rasmussen

From the text: I was listening to CBC, the national Canadian radio service, several years ago when the interviewer, Michael Enright, began chatting with a fellow named Alouitious from Newfoundland. Alouitious had a farm which was within the city limits of the capital, St John’s; so the first question that Enright asked him was, “How does it feel to be living such an old-fashioned way of life in...

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...

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...

Misc • 2012

global.patrioten - Begegnungen, Positionen und Impulse zu Klimagerechtigkeit, Biologischer und Kultureller Vielfalt

By: Verein Niedersächsischer Bildungsinitiativen (VNB e.V.), Arbeitsstelle Weltbilder e.V., Institut für angewandte Kulturforschung e.V.

Ein Buch, das die großen um.welt-Fragen unserer Zeit aufgreift und zeigt, dass Menschen es sind, die Veränderungen bewirken! Diese Menschen nennen wir global.patrioten, weil sie sich unabhängig von geografischen Grenzen mit großen Ideen, weitreichenden Taten oder kleinen Impulsen für eine bessere Welt einsetzen. In diesem Buch äußern sich Jugendliche, Fachwissenschaftlerinnen und...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth and buen vivir (living well): a critical comparison

By: Ernest Garcia

Introduction: A dialogue on the concepts of degrowth and living well [“buen vivir”, “vivir bien”] seems necessary and could be very informative. Such a dialogue should explore what both concepts have in common (particularly their critique of development: skepticism regarding its promises and its presumed universalism), as well as the specific and most important characteristics of each...

Scientific paper • 2012

Buen Vivir and Beyond: Searching for a New Paradigm of Action

By: Ana Agostino, Franziska Dübgen

From the text: A Language of opposition, once turned into a principle of governance changes its appearance. On the one hand, the social activist necessarily bases her intervention on the vision of a better state of affairs. Hence, her intellectual work is grounded in counter-narratives of what a different, alternative world should look like with the ultimate aim of transforming reality towards...

Scientific paper • 2012

Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, buen vivir, sumaq kawsay and degrowth

By: Bob Thomson

Abstract: I show that understanding the limits to growth for our finite planet is slowly gaining currency due to the (mostly) European sustainable degrowth ‘movement’ and a plurinational Latin American cosmovision which is largely indigenous but also criollo. These visions challenge us to decolonize our minds, as well as our economies. I introduces a number of writers and perspectives on...

Misc • 2011

Ausgewachsen!

By: Werner Rätz, Matthias Schmelzer, Barbara Muraca, Tanja von Egan-Krieger, Alexis Passadakis, Andrea Vetter (Hrsg.)

Ökologische Gerechtigkeit. Soziale Rechte. Gutes Leben. Reader zum Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums!?"

Scientific paper • 2011

The Quest for Pleasure and the Death of Life

By: Joseph Morrill Kirby

Schopenhauer; Kant; Hegel; Ecology; Economics; Philosophy

Report • 2011

Buen Vivir - Recht auf gutes Leben

By: Thomas Fatheuer

HBS: Klimawandel, Finanz- und Armutskrisen und die nukleare Katastrophe in Japan drängen zur Suche nach Alternativen zum derzeitigen Produktions- und Konsummodell. In allen Debatten um zukunftsfähige Entwicklungen blitzen die Ideale einer solidarischeren Welt auf und der Wunsch nach Glück und einem guten Leben. Diskussionen darüber gibt es längst auch in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Eine...

Report • 2011

Darf‘s ein bisschen mehr sein?

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Niko Paech, Alberto Acosta, Hans Diefenbacher, Joachim H. Spangenberg, Irmi Seidl, Konrad Raiser, Michael Frein, Johannes Küstner, Julia Rode, Julia Steffen, Mathis Wackernagel, Martin Gück, Nafisa Goga D ́Souza, Farida Akhter, Etienne Bazié, Agnes Abuom, Karin Bassler, Richard Brand, Ruth Gütter, Reinhard Loske

Von der Wachstumsgesellschaft und der Frage nach ihrer Überwindung Inhalt Vorwort: Wachstum. Ein Begriff hat Konjunktur Einleitung: Ausgewachsen? Von den Grenzen der Wachstumsgesellschaft - Michael Frein Kernthemen - Hat das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ausgedient? - Hans Diefenbacher - Die „peak everything“-Wirtschaft vorbereiten - Mathis Wackernagel - Die „Dritte Industrielle Revolution“ – ein...

Misc • 2011

By: Thomas Fatheuer

Klimawandel, Finanz- und Armutskrisen und die nukleare Katastrophe in Japan drängen zur Suche nach Alternativen zum derzeitigen Produktions- und Konsummodell. In allen Debatten um zukunftsfähige Entwicklungen blitzen die Ideale einer solidarischeren Welt auf und der Wunsch nach Glück und einem guten Leben. Diskussionen darüber gibt es längst auch in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Eine...

Presentation • 2011

Bedingungen einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft

By: Barbara Muraca, Klaus Dörre

Vortrag von Barbara Muraca und Klaus Dörre bei der Veranstaltung "Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?" des DGB 2011 in Berlin mit dem Titel "Bedingungen einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft". Beschreibung: Baraba Muraca setzt sich in ihrem Vortrag mit der Frage des „guten Lebens" in Postwachstumsgesellschaften auseinander. Ausganspunkt ihrer Überlegungen ist die Feststellung, dass Wachstum zunehmend eher als...

Scientific paper • 2010

Acceleration and Alienation - Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality

By: Hartmut Rosa

The publisher: »What is a good life – and why aren’t we living it?« »This book is a short essay on modern life. It strives to ask the ›right‹ sorts of questions that would allow social philosophy and sociology to speak to the everyday reality of people living in late-modern societies.« The rapid acceleration of social life is one of the salient characteristics of the present, but it is...

Misc • 2010

Plenitude - The New Economics of True Wealth

By: Juliet Schor

In Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. Humans are degrading the planet far faster than they are regenerating it. As we travel along this...

Misc • 2010

Growth, Degrowth, and the right to a ‘good life’: A scrutiny of the ethical assumptions in the growth-degrowth debate with respect to distributive justice

By: Barbara Muraca

Transcription of an oral session by Barbara Muraca at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Degrowth, Capitalist Institutions and Democracy". Abstract: The aim of the paper is a critical scrutiny of the ethical assumptions laid down by advocates of growth and degrowth with respect to distributive...

Misc • 2010

How to correct wrong information about economic growth

By: Roefie Hueting

Transcription of an oral session by Roefie Hueting at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?". Abstract: Economic growth is generally defined as increase of national income (NI) (or GDP) as a measure of production. However, according to the subject matter...

Position paper • 2010

Change without fear

By: Christer Sanne

Transcription of an oral session by Christer Sanne at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?".

Presentation • 2010

Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?

By: Francesca Chianese, Jampel Dell’Angelo

Poster and Transcription of an poster session by Francesca Chianese and Jampel Dell’Angelo at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Qamiri: What lessons can be learnt from indigenous peoples?".

Presentation • 2010

Growth, Degrowth, and Justice - A scrutiny of ethical and anthropological assumptions in growth and degrowth

By: Barbara Muraca

Presentation of an oral Session by Barbara Muraca at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Growth, Degrowth, and Justice - A scrutiny of ethical and anthropological assumptions in growth and degrowth". Growth, Degrowth, and Justice from Goteo / Platoniq