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Scientific paper • 2016

Mut zur Effizienz und Befreiung

Herausgeber_innen: In der Postwachstumsdebatte wird intensiv das Konzept der Grünen Ökonomie diskutiert. Als neues Leitbild verspricht es Lösungen für ökologische und ökonomische Probleme. Doch kann die Green Economy das wirklich? Wenn es der Gesellschaft tatsächlich gelingen soll, in der Zukunft anzukommen, ist es notwendig umzusatteln und sowohl Ross als auch Reiter zu wechseln.

Misc • 2016

The Real Utopia

By: Brototi Roy

From the text: . . . According to the definition given by Suvin, degrowth is a utopia because it wishes to repoliticize the debate on socio-ecological transformation to form a society with better institutions, norms and individual relationships. Degrowth also fits with Bloch’s definition of Utopia because it wishes to go beyond the natural march of events today, which is that of the capitalist...

Educational paper • 2016

Guter Kunde, böser Kunde - luxemburg argumente Nr. 13

By: AG Kritischer Konsum

RLS: Wachsende Müllberge, steigender Meeresspiegel, vergiftete Böden, Kriege um Ressourcen, tote ArbeiterInnen in Fabriken und Bergwerken: Produktion, Transport, Bewerbung, Vertrieb und Entsorgung unserer täglich konsumierten Güter und Dienstleistungen haben schwerwiegende Folgen. Gegenwehr scheint aussichtslos. Denn die Welt wirkt unendlich komplex und die Möglichkeit, politisch Einfluss...

Presentation • 2016

TUE_16h // Opening plenary: Connecting the dots of degrowth

By: Corinna Burkhart, Giorgos Kallis, Federico Demaria, Vincent Liegey, Filka Sekulova, Anne Pinnow, Alexandra Köves

Opening Panel "Connecting the dots of degrowth" at the the 5th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Federico Demaria, Corinna Burkhart, Filka Sekulova, Anne Pinnow, Giorgos Kallis, Alexandra Köves and Vincent Liegey (Tuesday 16h-18h) Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

TUE_18h // Opening panel of the conference: Degrowth in semi-periphery context

By: Giorgos Kallis, Danijela Dolenec, Alexandra Köves, Zoltan Pogatsa

Panel discussion at the the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Alexandra Köves, Zoltan Pogatsa, Danijela Dolenec, Giorgos Kallis Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

WED_9.30h // Clive Spash - Science and uncommon thinking

By: Clive Spash

Recorded keynote speech at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2016. Speaker: Clive Spash Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

WED_19h // Evening plenary - Capitalism and (de)growth

By: Susan Paulson, Daniel O'Neill, Jen Hinton

Panel discussion at the the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speakers: Jen Hinton, Susan Paulson, Daniel O'Neill Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

THUR_9:30h // Barbara Muraca - From capitalist accumulation to a solidarity economy

By: Barbara Muraca

Recorded keynote speech at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Speaker: Barbara Muraca Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Misc • 2016

THUR_16:30h // WORK Out of the Box!

By: Green European Foundation

Event "Work out of the box!" at the Degrowth Week, organized by the green european foundation. Part of the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Event is about sustainable work for all in a post-growth society. What means working beyond the job? What do we value as work? How do we value it? Degrowth 2016 - English youtube...

Scientific paper • 2016

Accelerating Degrowth?

By: Alexander Capistran

A skilled and interdisciplinary use of empowering technologies and proactive visionary thinking is, due to Accelerationist thinkers as Armen Avanessian or Nick Srnicek, the most viable strategy for emancipative transformation. Referring to a long history of left thinking (back to Marx himself), Accelerationist theoreticians claim that emancipation from the oppressive capitalist system should...

Scientific paper • 2016

Accumulation by dispossession, urban and regional social movements and the degrowth prespective: the case of Mediterranean

By: Andreea Micu, Phedeas Stephanides, Christy Petropoulou, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Sahera Bleibleh

During the last years the Mediterranean region and cities balance between the neoliberal growth and the urban and regional degrowth movements. On the one hand, the urban over-investment that aims to the surplus-value and the fast profit, operates on the principle of accumulation by dispossession and is masked behind the idea of a continues economic growth which is directly related on the global...

Scientific paper • 2016

Alliances between Global North and Global South

By: Ashish Kothari, Miriam Lang, Ulrich Brand, Edgardo Lander, Beatríz Rodríguez Labajos

Degrowth proposals are largely debated within and for the Global North. Despite strong dynamics and orientations towards economic growth and Western-style development in certain countries of the Global South, concepts like „buen vivir“, ‘post-growth’, swaraj and radical ecological democracy, and underlying these a wide range of practical approaches have emerged. They are promoted by social...

Scientific paper • 2016

Alternative pathways for the French region Pays de la Loire (PdL)

By: David Merlaut

The sustainability challenge is far from being addressed in OECD countries. Although the French region PdL is no exception, various local initiatives are flourishing which suggest an opposition to the business-as-usual policy both and a desire to envision and engage collectively in alternative sustainable pathways - like the concrete utopia of Notre Dame des Landes. This investigation adds...

Scientific paper • 2016

Alternatives to Enculturation of Children into Consumers

By: Madalina Balau

In Romania all parents want to offer their children a better life and a better future, sometimes with their own sacrifice, yet the years following communist regime have brought unsustainable development, present in environmental degradation and social insecurity. After living in communism and knowing how bad it was, people have been accustoming for the last 26 years, to accept the lesser evil,...

Scientific paper • 2016

Alternatives to refrigeration and air conditioning

By: Jason N. Meggs, M.C.P./M.P.H.

Artificial cooling such as refrigeration and air conditioning have grown to an increasingly global scale in less than a century, primarily with regard to food preservation and comfort cooling. As world industrial growth continues, this shift to artificial cooling is projected to increase as much as 33-fold by 2100. Multiple harmful feedback loops associated with climate change and urbanization...

Scientific paper • 2016

A method and a movement: the progress of the Community Supported Agriculture

By: Emese Gulyás, Emese Gulyás, Zoltán Dezsény, Zsófia Perényi

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an economic and agricultural model based on partnership and participation between farmers and consumers, where farmers produce goods for consumers and both parties are committed to the long term maintenance and support of the farm. CSA is often regarded as a model that brings environmental, social and economic benefits to all stakeholders. The session...

Scientific paper • 2016

An understanding of materialistic values in post-socialist Europe

By: Saamah Abdallah

Degrowth is a post-materialist movement, which places value on the biosphere, human wellbeing, and justice, above and beyond the possession of material goods (Degrowth Declaration, 2008). And yet surveys suggest that levels of materialism are higher in post-socialist countries than in Western European countries (Kyvelidis, 2001). In the sixth round of the European Social Survey (2012), nine of...

Scientific paper • 2016

A proposal of complex index to measure the transition to Solidarity Economy.

By: Lucia Piani

Are the territories ready to deal with a transition to an economy, which respects the biophysical limits of the planet and the failures of the globalized capitalist system? This study concerns the possible implementation of “Economic Solidarity Districts” (Distretti di Economia Solidale, DES) in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) that is located in the North East of Italy. The DES are...

Scientific paper • 2016

Are there limits to growth?

By: Ulrich Brand, Barbara Muraca, Christoph Goerg, Christoph Goerg

Has the planet reached its carrying and absorbing capacity? And do we face natural boundaries which objectively exist that limit human activities in any general way? According to the study of the Club of Rome, published in 1972 under the title “Limits to growth”, that stage was already approached 40 years ago. Today in the era of climate change, biodiversity loss and other ecological problems,...

Scientific paper • 2016

Are we there yet?

By: Jana Gebauer

The SOLIKON 2015 was a Berlin-based international congress on solidarity economy and social-ecological transformation. From Sept 5 to Sept 13, it gathered 1.400 people under the slogan “We know other ways!” Activists, practitioners, multipliers and individual participants discussed a variety of approaches, visions, examples and possible lines of convergence of an alternative economy for...