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Misc • 2015

Better, Not More.

By: Kontent Films

Short video that answers the question "What is buen vivir?" and at the same time explaining the commons.

Misc • 2015

Growth Based Economies or Collapse

By: Sam Bliss

Published with a Creative Commons license. Sam Bliss, a graduate of ecological economics from the USA, explains with the help of orange juice what is going wrong in today's economy. In an encouraging way he displays different possible solutions for the problems he describes and thereby names essential parts of degrowth.

Scientific paper • 2015

Zukunftsfähige Unternehmen in einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft

By: Dirk Posse

Vom Buchrücken: Das auf Expansion beruhende sozio-technische Gesellschaftssystem ist nicht zukunftsfähig und bedarf einer grundlegenden Transformation. Angesichts ausbleibender Erfolge bisheriger Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen hat sich das Bild einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft entwickelt, verstanden als Suchprozess einer Transformation hin zu einer kleineren Ökonomie mit geringerem...

Report • 2015

Kitchen for all

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the people's kitchen at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Vegetable Cooperative "Rote Beete"

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video about the vegetable cooperative "Rote Beete" and how they grew vegetable for the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Report • 2015

Life in a Bauwagen (construction trailer)

By: Marc Menningmann

Short video with two people opening their Bauwagen for passers-by during the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014.

Scientific paper • 2015

Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? Some theoretical reflections and numerical simulations

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Social justice; Inequality; Macroeconomics; Stock flow consistent modelling; Savings; Investment

Report • 2015

Is Europe staring at a second Renaissance?

By: Ashish Kothari

The publisher: Across Europe, as economies find themselves tottering in the face of deepening financial and social crises, various alternative initiatives are gaining ground, providing hope for a different future. Ashish Kothari writes on some of these.

Scientific paper • 2015

The growth imperative revisited: a rejoinder to Gilányi and Johnson

By: Mathias Binswanger

Abstract: In Binswanger (2009) it was shown that in a simple circular flow model of a pure credit economy, positive growth rates are necessary in the long run in order to enable firms to make profits in the aggregate. If the growth rate falls below a certain positive threshold level, firms will make losses. Certain aspects of this model are challenged by the papers of Zsolt Gilányi and Reeves...

Scientific paper • 2015

The Future Post-Growth Society

By: Clive Spash

Review Essay: Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill, Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

Scientific paper • 2015

Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Hug March

economic growth, limits, scarcity, scale, utopias

Interview • 2015

Sind wir noch zu retten?

By: Alexander Jung, Hor, Knaup, Samiha Shafy, Bernhard Zand

Titel “Story” des Spiegels “Der verheizte Planet" im Februar 2015. Es geht um den Klimawandel. Anlass für den Artikel ist das zeitnah veröffentlichte Buch von Naomi Klein “This changes everything”. In diesem Kontext taucht auch die “Degrowth Bewegung” im Artikel auf. Der Spiegel 9/2015, S.56 – 64 Zur Titelstory gehört auch ein Interview mit Naomi Klein: "Der kaputte Planet"

Scientific paper • 2015

Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

By: Arturo Escobar, Arturo Escobar

Degrowth, Postdevelopment, Transition, Civilizational crisis, Global South

Scientific paper • 2015

More growth? An unfeasible option to overcome critical energy constraints and climate change

By: Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Margarita Mediavilla, Carlos de Castro, Óscar Carpintero, Luis Javier Miguel

Renewable limits, Fossil fuel depletion, Global warming, System dynamics, Peak oil, Scenarios

Scientific paper • 2015

Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability

By: Federico Demaria, Viviana Asara, Iago Otero, Esteve Corbera

Introduction to the Special Feature: "Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation". Sustainability Science, July 2015, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 375-384

Interview • 2015

Die Grenzen der Megamaschine: Globale Krisen und der Kampf um echte Demokratie

By: Fabian Scheidler, David Goeßmann

Your browser does not support the video tag. Mit Fabian Scheidler, Buchautor ("Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation"), Mitbegründer von Kontext TV Kontext-TV über den Beitrag: Nach mehrjähriger Recherchearbeit hat Kontext-TV-Redakteur Fabian Scheidler sein Buch "Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation" vorgestellt. David Goeßmann...

Misc • 2015

An ethics of surplus and the right to waste?: Discards and Degrowth

By: Max Liboiron

Short piece about discards in the context of degrowth. The author is asking if there are proposals within the degrowth framework dealing with waste and toxics and also how such proposals look like. He briefly discusses the concept of dépense and introduces the thought of a "right to waste".

Report • 2015

Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism

By: Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

The authors, all well known voices in movements that promote alternatives to capitalism, criticise current and past environmental, economic and social politics. In the context of this critique they describe existing alternative narratives, movements, ideas, such as: buen vivir, ubuntu, radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj and degrowth. > German version of the article

Misc • 2015

Resist! Against a Precarious Future

By: Ray Filar (ed)

On the book by Rhiannon Colvin: Imagine that it’s 2025 and the world of work has changed. Today, we do labour out of passion, not obligation. Nobody has a low-paid job or has to balance multiple jobs just to make rent. Work gives us meaning and direction, but it does not define who we are. The three day working week means we have time to spend with friends and family, to contribute to our...

Scientific paper • 2015

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth

By: Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Søren Nors Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus, Simone Bastianoni (ed.)

The publisher: Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model. The book describes how nature uses three growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in...