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Where:

Focus on social and democratic energy supply

Question: saving energy is expensive?

Improvements: energy consulting for free (financed by state/community), efficiency cooperatives

Energy as common good (like water). Community provides energy supply, non-profit

Discussion: do we assume that 100% renewables is technically possible? Implicit consensus: yes.

→ focus only on social issues

stakeholders of energy supply

consumers: industry, private households

producers: regional energy supply

question: may energy supply be controlled by price in a degrowth society? Market yes or no?

Energy supply must be accessible for everyone, but energy budgets depending on demand could be feasible

Proposals:

Transformation

Vision:

Where:

Proposals

Group	When?	Agreement	Controversial
Shaping public opinion	now	Introduce sufficiency education Practice: school gardens Theory: documentaries, information material, workshops communicate it as „basic education „no special course“ e.g. „global awareness. Offer Alternatives use campaigns to present sufficiency in a positive way	Individual ecological footpring limit
later	increase transparency for consumers (if it can be implemented now or later was a controversial)
Structure	Now	Focus on local policies to allow participatory bottom-up processes Sufficiency politics as a process of social engineering – piecemeal approach instead of starting with a masterplan Harvest low hanging sufficiency fruits first – recognise sufficiency-supporting policies in „mainstream“ policy fields that already enjoy support for other reasons acceptance of informational instruments and economic instruments higher than of command + control check: where are blockades for sufficiency in the tax and subsidy system	expression „good life“ instead of „sufficiency“
Political Instruments	Now	ecological tax reform (including energy and resources), while adressing social impacts improve functioning of emission trading system introduce speed limits (120 highwasy, 30 city, 80 elsewhere) progressive electricity tarifs right to lower working hours prolong warranty periods
Later	30 hour working week

Feedback from other groups on our results from yesterday:

- what about creating incentives for the right/disincentives for the wrong companies.

- nice dreams, but who/where are the actors to implement it

- how can the suggestions be realised in individualised society

- should'nt subsides be shifted

- tax resource extraction and wealth, not income

- focus on education

- what's the role of public …

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