I am pleased to announce that we are building up the GROWL fundraising team, to start working on strategies and further project applications that support our growing degrowth network!
Currently we have the focus on a resubmission of the RELAIS Eramus+ strategic partnership for adult education (which we submitted last year, was approved but stayed 3% points below the funding line), as well as fundraising for the degrowth caravan. In the last partners meeting, it was also expressed the importance of getting hands on some fund that could support…
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Can Decreix is looking for an EVS volunteer now (<30)!
Can Decreix is a place to demonstrate and reflect around the topic of degrowth. Started by activist scientists from Research & Degrowth (www.degrowth.org), Can Decreix is a centre for transformation, research, low-tech and agroecology (http://www.degrowth.org/can-decreix). Situated in Cerbere, France, on the sea-side border between France and Spain, Can Decreix was created with the idea to put in…
more… So, I have started finally to describe and fundament my understanding of the kind of social innovation we are generating with the use of agile processes, particularly the scrum methodology in GROWL. Feel free to comment or improve the wiki article, which is still in a preliminary form.
A short excerpt:
Our capacity to address the complex and urgent challenges that are presented in contemporary times depends on "abandon[ing] (...) ideas of ‘control and management” seriously by arguing that science should be the servant of outcomes framed in, primarily…
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Dear GROWLers,
we now finished the Documentation of the Leipzig Course "Mental infrastructures and Degrowth transformation", which took place in Leipzig, 2nd-11th of September, including the IV. International Degrowth Conference. You can find it here:
http://co-munity.net/mental-infrastructures/materials-0
What was the course about?
Mental infrastructures of growth are a persons' unconsciously internalized psychological, social and cultural settings. At the moment these…
more… Recent news: 12 people killed, among them many people involved in Charlie Hebdo, a humorous french journal with a long history following the 1968 events in France.
We should really give tribute for their fair humoristic non violent fight against all types of extreme rights, be it religious (with extremist interpretation of islam, sionism, christianity, catholics) or racist in general. It is very interesting to see that the killers, if they are islamist, did not target the islamophobes. There seem to be some kind of implicit, and sometimes explicit, alliance between all of those that…
more… First of all, I wish every one of you a happy 2015, where the pressure of growth (or to grow) does not occupy all the spaces and times for joyful conviviality!
We begin this year with a lot of exciting news regarding our GROWL network. I will not go into extensive details, but rather give you some highlights that hopefully will make you jump into this platform and start collaborating in the production of degrowth education materials, or simply to interact with other fellows!
International course applications
The selection procedure for the GROWL international courses in…
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