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Misc • 2015

Summer school: last-minute change of venue!

Shortly before the start of the Climate Camp and the Degrowth Summer School, we are changing the venue of our camp. We have found an even better place in close proximity to the open cast mine Garzweiler. Further information is available here

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Sommerschule: Kurzfristige Ortsänderung!

By: Christiane Kliemann

Kurz vor dem Start des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinland wechseln wir den Ort unseres Camps. Wir haben ein noch besseres Gelände in unmittelbarer Nähe vom Tagebau Garzweiler gefunden. Mehr dazu gibt es hier

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Degrowth & the Climate Crisis – from a Climate Justice Perspective

By: Lyda Fernanda Forero

By Lyda Fernanda Forero There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences. This consensus is reinforced by the human and environmental disasters (tragedies) that occur every year due to extreme climate events, such as the typhoons of growing intensity including Haiyan(2013) in the Philippines or the

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Degrowth project funding

By: Corinna Burkhart

The degrowth-conference took place in Leipzig in September 2014. Fortunately, the collected voluntary participation fee was higher than expected. This enables the conference team to allocate 9.000 Euro for project funding.

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Degrowth-Projektförderung!

By: Corinna Burkhart

Im September 2014 fand die Degrowth-Konferenz in Leipzig statt. Die frei wählbaren Teilnehmer_innen Beiträge waren erfreulicherweise höher, als erwartet! Sie ermöglichen dem ehm. Degrowth Organisationskreis, knapp 9.000 Euro für eine Projektförderung vergeben zu können.

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What is clean energy and for whom?

By: Corinna Burkhart

Camila Moreno, expert on “green” energy in Brazil, gives some demonstrative examples of so called green and clean energy projects and their impact in the Global South. Her input is part of the panel A worldwide energy revolution? which took place at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in September 2014.

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Summer School opens with Clear Vision for Movement and Action

By: Christiane Kliemann

By Christiane Kliemann With the Summer School in the lignite-mining area of the German Rhineland, for the first time the degrowth and climate justice movement are explicitly thought together. This is why the opening panel “No Climate Justice without Degrowth” had the interesting task to draw the very big picture and join the dots between

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Sommerschule eröffnet mit klarer Vision für Bewegung und Aktion

By: Christiane Kliemann

von Christiane Kliemann Mit der Sommerschule im Klimacamp im Rheinland werden zum ersten Mal die Themen Degrowth und Klimagerechtigkeit explizit zusammen gedacht. Das Eröffnungspodium ,,Keine Klimagerechtigkeit ohne Degrowth‟ hatte somit die Aufgabe, den großen Bogen zu schlagen und die Verbindungslinien zwischen Klimagerechtigkeit, Degrowth und dem Widerstand gegen fossile Energieträger zu...

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Summer school: An atmosphere of joy, hope and determination

By: Christiane Kliemann

By Christiane Kliemann After six days of workshops, discussions, practical activities and fun the summer school on degrowth and climate justice at the climate camp Rhineland has come to and end. With the slogan “Degrowth in Action”, the summer school did not only break down the rather theoretical ideas of degrowth into concrete actions such

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Sommerschule: Ein Flair von Spaß, Hoffnung und klarem Ziel

By: Christiane Kliemann

Von Christiane Kliemann Nach sechs Tagen mit Workshops, Diskussionen, praktischen Aktivitäten und viel Spaß ist die Sommerschule zu Degrowth und Klimagerechtigkeit auf dem rheinischen Klimacamp nun zu Ende. Unter dem Slogan “Degrowth Konkret” wurden die eher theoretischen Ideen von Degrowth auf konkrete Aktionen wie den Widerstand gegen Braunkohleabbau zugespitzt. Darüber hinaus bot das Camp die

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Vegetable Cooperative "Rote Beete"

By: Corinna Burkhart

Gemüsekooperative Rote Beete [Vegetable Cooperative „Rote Beete“] from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. What has agriculture to do with the climate? A lot. Modern, industrialized agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. This video shows

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Kitchen for all

By: Corinna Burkhart

Küche für Alle [Kitchen for all] from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. Next to discussing and presenting, people also ate and cooked on the Degrowth Conference which took place in Leipzig last year. The “Kitchen for all” is a group of People’s kitchens which cooked for and with the conference participants to provide food every lunch

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Life in a Bauwagen

By: Corinna Burkhart

Leben im Bauwagen [Life in a Bauwagen (construction trailer)] from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. During the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014 the photographer Niko Baumgarten opened his Bauwagen for passers-by. Anyone interested was invited to get some impressions and to look at his picture series “Welcome Home”, which deals with alternative ways of housing.

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Rethinking Degrowth: Islamic Perspectives

By: Odeh Al Jayyousi

With the “Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change” published by the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium earlier this month, another world religion has expressed heavy concerns about the pursuit of relentless economic growth. Professor Odeh Al Jayyousi, one of the members of the Symposium, had attended our summer school on degrowth and climate justice right

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Revolution predigen und Karottensaft trinken? - Ansprüche und Praxis der Degrowth-Bewegung

By: Christiane Kliemann

von Jana Holz und Miriam Fahimi Während sich andere Workshops der Sommerschule zu Degrowth und Klimagerechtigkeit zum Beispiel mit dem Emissionshandel, den sozialen Konditionen des Klimawandels, makroökonomischen Bedingungen von Postwachstumsgesellschaften beschäftigten, haben wir uns vor allem mit uns selbst auseinander gesetzt. Dieses mit-sich-selbst-auseinander-setzen, das wurde jedoch...

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An economic turnaround for Greece – and the whole of Europe

By: Nina Treu

By Nina Treu According to recent calculations by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute the Euro-crisis has cost Greece almost a quarter of its GDP. This is the biggest ever recorded contraction of an economy in times of peace. It would be cynical to consider this an example for degrowth (or postgrowth) in Europe. This is certainly

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Eine Wirtschaftswende für Griechenland – und ganz Europa

By: Nina Treu

Von Nina Treu Das Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung hat vor kurzem berechnet, dass die Eurokrise Griechenland fast ein Viertel seiner Wirtschaftsleistung gekostet hat. Das ist die größte erfasste Schrumpfung eines Industrielandes in Friedenszeiten. Zynisch könnte man meinen, dass dies ein Beispiel für Degrowth oder Postwachstum in Europa ist. Ist es...

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Video: Metamorphosen

By: Corinna Burkhart

Vor gut einem Jahr fand die Vierte Internationale Degrowth Konferenz für Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig statt. Dazu gibt es ein Jubiläumsvideo des Stückes “Metamorphosen”: Metamorphosen from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo. Zur Eröffnung der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 trat der Klangkünstler Pablo Paolo Kilian mit seinem Stück “Metamorphosen” auf. Visuell begleitet wurde...

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Only degrowth can be a credible answer to Europe's current refugee situation

By: Dennis Eversberg

By Dennis Eversberg Tens of thousands are currently coming to Europe, hoping for a better future. They are fleeing from war, violence, political persecution and utter despair, and their hope for a better life lets them endure experiences of dire poverty, exclusion, rejection, police repression and much more on their way here. At the same

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Ecomodernism is Anti-Progress – A View from Asia

By: Chandran Nair

By Chandran Nair A seminal paper jointly authored by a dozen international scientists and academics and released in April has created a ripple in the conservation community. It is a lengthy essay but what An Ecomodernist Manifesto says is that accelerated technological progress combined with socio-economic change will ‘decouple’ human economic pursuit from its impact