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Misc • 2016

Is Sustainability Only for the Privileged?

On the Need for Collaboration Between Social Movements and Activisms. The article sheds the light on the fact that most of the people engaged in the international transition town movement are white educated middle class. It concludes that the integration of other perspectives through a facilitated "opening-up process" would make the transition town movement more inclusive. Published on...

Interview • 2015

Permaculture in Ethiopia - Community gardening, agriculture & climate adaption measures

By: Asmelash Dagne

Interview with Asmelash Dagne from the Solikon-Congress for Solidarity-based Economy and Transformation 2015 in Berlin. From the program: Small-holding farming and permaculture gardens have something in common: they provide their people with food and they are a self-providing or subsistance economy. Permaculture is also being used to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is helping...

Scientific paper • 2014

Bridging the gap of less sustainable lifestyles in society – members of permaculture coined communities and their role as change agents towards the Great Transition

By: Sebastian Becker

eco-villages, permaculture, transition towns, change agents, PermaKulturRaum

Scientific paper • 2014

Money and Freedom in the view of Polanyis Great Transformation: Decommodification by constituting alternative monetary systems

By: Josué Manuel Quintana Diaz

Monetary system, monetary constitution, growth imperative, Transitions Initiatives, decommodification

Scientific paper • 2014

Money and Freedom in the view of Polanyis Great Transformation: Decommodification by constituting alternative monetary institutions

By: Josué Manuel Quintana Diaz

Money as institution, monetary constitution, growth imperative, Transitions Initiatives, decommodification

Scientific paper • 2014

Discussion of the new Portuguese sustainability experiences

By: Lúcia Fernandes

Abstract: The work aims to present the general aspects of a recently started postdoctoral research project at the Research Centre in Sociological and Organizational Sociology (SOCIUS) and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), Portugal. Some empirical data is from the research project Communication and Political Engagement with Environmental Issues - COMPOLIS (I am part of the project research...

Scientific paper • 2014

the potential of permaculture teachers as change agents for a sustainable modernity

By: Max Gaedtke

Abstract: Subject of this paper is to analyse the potential of permaculture teachers as change agents for a sustainable modernity. The theoretical basis of the work is the change agent approach by KRISTOF (2010). Permaculture is presented as a sustainable design approach. The change agent approach is used as a framework. The methodology consists of qualitative interviews with teachers and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Introducing Permaculture to Economic Ecosystems - the Integrative Analysis Method

By: Michael Schlauch

Abstract: This paper explores new ways of applying ecological knowledge to solve economic problems in a manner that suits the complexity of society and environmental challenges. This is done by developing the integrative analysis method. The integrative analysis uses systems ecology in order to characterize economic systems with their energetic properties and model them as ecosystems. This...

Educational paper • 2013

Terra Preta. Die schwarze Revolution aus dem Regenwald

By: Ute Scheub, Haiko Pieplow, Hans-Peter Schmidt

Untertitel: Mit Klimagärtnern die Welt retten und gesunde Lebensmittel produzieren Der Verlag: Terra Preta do Indio lautet der portugiesische Name für einen Stoff, dem man wundersame Eigenschaften zuschreibt. Die Presse überschlägt sich mit Berichten über das "Schwarze Gold", die Wissenschaft glaubt mit der Schwarzerde aus dem Regenwald zwei der größten Menschheitsprobleme lösen zu können - den...

Scientific paper • 2012

Permaculture proposals and tools for degrowth process in the fields of rural work and agriculture in Brazil

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre e Jacques Dias

Keywords : Work, hunger, poverty, Industrial farming, Permaculture, autonomy

Misc • 2011

Stricken im Weltraum und die globalen Krisen – der lokale Ansatz der Transition-Town-Bewegung

By: Rahel Schweickert, Claudia Spiller, Maren Streibel, Andreas Teuchert

Protokoll des Workshops "Stricken im Weltraum und die globalen Krisen – der lokale Ansatz der Transition-Town-Bewegung" auf dem Attac-Kongress "Jenseits des Wachstums?!" in Berlin 2011. Aus dem Programm: Nach einem kurzem Input zur Transition-Town-Bewegung und der Kiezwandler in SO36 geht es um die Frage: In welchem Zusammenhang stehen Peak-Oil, Postwachstum und globale Krisen mit dem...

Presentation • 2010

Sustainable Communities of Practice and Ecovillages as Mediaton Tools for Degrowth Process

By: Mildred Gustack Delambre

Poster by Mildred Gustack Delambre at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Sustainable Communities of Practice and Ecovillages as Mediaton Tools for Degrowth Process".

Misc • 2009

13 Attitudes

By: THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION

A small booklet on 13 Attitudes of Permaculture. Text, quotes and illustrations.