this is a working group - is it different from a community?

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

Die Allmendeküche zielt darauf ab, innerhalb des Witzenhäuser Kultur- und Mehrgenerationenprojektes “Transition Haus”eine nutzerfreundliche Infrastruktur aufzubauen, die gemeinschaftliches Miteinander, sozialen Austausch und die Verarbeitung vorwiegend regionaler und ökologisch erzeugter Lebensmittel ermöglicht.

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

Can basic income be financed in a way compatible with ecological goals and social justice in a degrowth context and if so how?

What is the relation of basic income proposals to other proposals to re-organize work (e.g. the shortening of working hours, income ceilings...)?

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A Campanha pelas Sementes Livres é uma iniciativa europeia que nasceu em 2011 com núcleos na maioria dos Estados-Membros da União Europeia. Em Portugal a campanha é dinamizada pelo Campo Aberto, GAIA, Movimento Pró-Informação para Cidadania e Ambiente, Plataforma Transgénicos Fora, Projecto270, Quercus e Wakeseed/Círculos de Sementes, para além de contar já com perto de cem subscritores e milhares de apoiantes individuais.

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

How does growing up look like in a degrowth society, which is not aimed at productive hierarchical and competitive work?

What kind of institutions of learning and care do we need in a degrowth society? And how can we address the challenges for institutional change in this field?

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

How should the energy sector be organized in a degrowth society?

What strategies should the degrowth movement adopt to curb climate change? Divestment, deindustrialization, conversion...?

co-munity is an open-source platform based on Drupal Open Atrium, which is being developed and extended to support processes of exchange and collaboration among and across communities of practicioners, political activists and academics on topics such as degrowth, transition, agroecology and commons.

On this space you can read or write documentation, submit bug reports, propose new features, ask questions or provide answers to other users.

Here be dragons

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

Could the concepts of “commons” and “communing” be the basic principle for a degrowth society?

Which social institutions (e.g. health, computers, schools) should be organized as commons, as public institutions, or in the market? What does this imply for gender and class relations?

In this course we will explore the power of community and ways of community building, via different methologies and experiences, as well as from the evalution from already ongoing ( transition) projects in a small town in Germany, Witzenhausen, which suffers from big debt payments. The goal of our course is, to develop creative ways of thinking, being and doing, so that instead of scarcity the „Buen Vivir“ comes in full power in our communities.

Working group formed for the International Conference on Degrowth 2014.

What are the potentials and limits of individual self-providing and life-style changes for the transformation towards a degrowth society?

This was the second GROWL pilot course, focusing on testing and developing the content and train-the-trainer modules.

May 2014 · Can Decreix, France
Hosted by: Research & Degrowth
Language: English