01162nas a2200121   4500008004100000245006400041210006000105260001200165520074100177100002100918700003200939856006900971       2014                        eng d00aDesigning an energy scarce world – Transition Engineering0 aDesigning an energy scarce world Transition Engineering  aLeipzig3 aHistory of society is strongly influenced by the energy supply available and energy is an important economic production factor. It's coupled with extraction of natural ressources and the emission of pollutant particles and heat, surpassing the ability for regeneration of our ecosystems. Society has to face the question how to reduce energy demand. Transition engineering offers a roadmap for engineers how to re-focus the inventive and the facilitative intent of the professional engineers in every field to the problem of re-designing and re-developing all fossil fuel consuming systems to use less fuel. The goal is to “make things work” on long timescales and to offer feasible alternatives and a strong impetus towards change.1 aRichters, Oliver1 aKrumdieck, Prof., Dr. Susan  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/351301240nas a2200133   4500008004100000245007500041210006900116260001200185520077200197100002100969700002400990700002301014856006901037       2014                        eng d00aTheoretical considerations on growth imperatives in a monetary economy0 aTheoretical considerations on growth imperatives in a monetary e  aLeipzig3 aIf an ongoing growth is considered impossible or undesirable, the growth dependence of man-made structures such as social security systems have to be carefully revised. In the post-growth debate, the monetary system based on credit money combined with positive interest rates is often criticized and accused of causing a growth imperative. The contribution refutes this oversimplified interrelation, but provides an insight into the critical points of a non-growing monetary economy and should help to identify policy options how these destabilising effects could be overcome in order to achieve an economically sustainable degrowth. It additionally challenges existing proposals for enabling a degrowing monetary economy by implementing debt- or interest-free money.1 aRichters, Oliver1 aWenzlaff, Ferdinand1 aKimmich, Christian  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3521