Press
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Interview: Nature – The History of Our Planet
Nine female experts discuss their visions: how we can protect nature, end exploitation, respect the limits of our planet, and rethink the economy for a just and sustainable future. Our colleague Nora talks about room for maneuver and hope.
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Environmental associations fear that the costs of mining in Saxony will be passed on to the general public
Sina Reisch is a guest on Radio Blau's Mittagspause Magazin. For decades, lignite was mined in the Lusatian region and the Leipzig region. What remained were vast, lunar landscapes whose recultivation costs billions. Who is bearing these costs?
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Am I at risk of poverty in old age if I want to live sustainably?
Private pension provision is built on financial market capitalism. In a world without growth, it must be organized differently. An interview with Charlotte Hitzfelder.
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“We always try to understand ESD as political education”
In the didacta topic service, Maló Wawerda talks about our political education work and our stand at Germany's most important education fair, "didacta."
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Prohibition of tracking and personalized advertising
Heise Online reports on our statement, which we published together with the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Wikimedia, the Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FlfF), and Germanwatch.
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Loss and Damage: Why we need climate reparations
Our contributors Oumarou Mfochive and Lee Amaduzzi summarize for Table.Briefings why climate reparations are necessary for countries in the Global South.
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Climate reparations can improve living conditions
How can rich industrialized nations compensate for climate damage in poorer countries? A conversation with the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e. V.
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The question of ownership of open-cast coal mines is
The elections in the coal-producing states of Saxony and Brandenburg are perhaps the last chance for a consistent precautionary policy for the subsequent burdens of lignite mining. The regions must not be left with the long-term costs and must be able to help shape the energy transition.
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Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie demands: Germany must pay climate reparations
It wasn't only during the colonial era that the global North ruthlessly exploited the resources of the South. Today's prosperity in the North is also unthinkable without burdening the countries of the South with the costs of this prosperity.
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Environmental organizations call for better opencast mining aftercare
Is the money saved by the energy company LEAG sufficient to repair the damage caused by lignite mining? Environmental groups doubt this and fear that in the event of bankruptcy, LEAG's renewable energy division will not be required to pay for the post-mine cleanup.
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Statement calls for a change of course in dealing with the subsequent costs of lignite in East Germany
“We must not allow costs to be socialized and profits to be privatized,” says Sina Reisch from Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, which also published the joint statement.
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Coal phase-out in Lusatia: Billions for billionaires
Environmental organizations warn that Lusatia could be left with the subsequent costs of coal-fired power generation.
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Criticism of lignite follow-up costs – call for a change of course
Shortly before the state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, several civil society and environmental organizations are pushing for a change of course in dealing with the subsequent costs of lignite mining in eastern Germany.
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Corporations should pay
NGOs fear that corporations could try to pass on the subsequent costs of lignite mining. Brandenburg and Saxony are supposed to prevent this.
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Follow-up costs of lignite in Saxony and Brandenburg: Konzeptwerk presents new dossier
Who will pay the subsequent costs of lignite mining? This question is once again coming into focus during the state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg.
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Train utopias & socialize the energy sector
How can the climate movement move from street protests and open-pit mine blockades to real change? Sina Reisch sees one answer in the socialization of the energy sector. To achieve this, she moved from the mine to the desk.
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Ideas for transforming the economy
Nina Treu talks in an interview about a socio-ecological transformation of the economy in order to counteract climate change.
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Luxury for all
Whether it's care, agriculture, mobility, or energy: the "Let's Socialize" conference is looking for ways to create a common good-oriented economy.
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Social movements: socialization as a strategy
Sabine Nuss writes about the socio-ecological restructuring of society through socialization and the conference “Let's Socialize.”
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“We want transformation instead of minor reforms”
An interview with Mascha Schädlich about the conference “Let's Socialize – Socialization as a Strategy for Climate Justice”.
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Let's socialize: Socialization leads to system change
In the dissent podcast, Sina Reisch discusses the socialization of the energy sector. The areas of agriculture and nutrition, care work, and mobility are also presented at the Socialization Conference.
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To have or not to have
Mascha Schädlich and Lasse Thiele spoke with analyse & kritik about the conference "Let's Socialize," which we co-organized, and explain why socialization is an important strategy for climate justice.
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Reduce working hours, repair mobile phones and use products for a long time
Our colleague Anja Höfner spoke with Tagesspiegel Background about what is needed to make the economy more environmentally friendly.
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More arable land should be in farmers’ hands
In the new Germany, Hendrik Lasch writes about the farmers' protests, the Agricultural Structure Act, and what political answers our dossier "Fair Land Policy" offers farmers.
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Land policy – Agriculture fights against large investors
The Magdeburger News writes about the failed land policy of the last decades and the planned Saxon Agricultural Structure Act, as well as about our dossier “Fair Land Policy” and which political changes we need for a common good-oriented and climate-friendly agriculture.
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Can it be more visionary? – On ideas about the future in German-speaking discourse
Anja Höfner and Mascha Schädlich talk about digital-ecological visions in an interview with Deutschlandfunk at the Chaos Communication Congress 2023.
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The Allemagne engages in a process of reparation across the Cameroun
Tribune Verte reports on the urgent need for funding to combat climate change, as discussed at the workshop. It discusses what would be necessary for Germany and other actors to officially recognize and pay their historic climate debt to Cameroon.
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Reset! To protect the environment, we need a different digitalization
Anja Höfner in an interview about the growing digital sector, which focuses on efficiency rather than reducing resource consumption.
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LNG protests: Will Lützi become the new Rügen?
Lasse Thiele was a guest on the What's to Be Done? podcast. He talked about the growing protest on Rügen and how protest sites emerge.
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Four-day week: Why reduced working hours have a future.
In Lukas Ondreka’s Dissens podcast, Parwaneh Mirassan talks with Katrin Mohr (IG Metall) and Sebastian Müller (4Stunden-Liga) about reducing working hours.
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Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie: Agricultural land must not be an object of speculation
Agricultural land in Germany is very unevenly distributed, land prices are rising, and non-agricultural investors and large companies are increasingly using land as an object of speculation.
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New dossier from Leipzig: Climate justice needs a fair tax policy
A climate turnaround in Germany will only occur when the huge mountain of climate-damaging subsidies is reduced and when large fortunes are taxed.
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Collective working time reduction as a cool step towards climate improvement
Interview with Kai Kuhnhenn about our dossier on reducing working hours and rapid steps to save the climate.
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A piece of utopia on Friedrichstraße
Louisa Theresa Braun writes about the decision to make Friedrichstrasse in Berlin a pedestrian zone and refers to the dossier “Car-free Cities” by Carolina Achilles from Konzeptwerk.
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Does reducing working hours to 28 hours help the climate?
In its new dossier, the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie a collective reduction in working hours to 28 hours and a 4-day week as a building block for a climate-friendly transformation.
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Hydrogen imports
Lasse Thiele in an interview on hydrogen as a fig leaf for fossil energy projects and on global justice issues surrounding hydrogen imports
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Car-free cities are a relevant contribution to climate justice
“Germany’s cities have become stuck in a multiple traffic crisis,” are the first sentences in the dossier that the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie on Thursday, December 15th.
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Living completely differently
In the online article, Stephan Hebel criticizes the current housing policy of the federal government and takes up concrete alternatives from the dossier “Fair Distribution of Housing” of the concept work.
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A different life for climate protection
In the online article, Ruth Krohn clearly explains why the pursuit of ever greater economic growth is a major cause of the climate crisis.
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Bits&Trees: The Conference for Digitalization and Sustainability
Almost an hour of conversation with Mascha Schädlich, among others, about the conference on digitalization and sustainability, what techies and eco-friendly people can learn from each other and what it's like to help organize such a large conference.
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What does prosperity actually mean?
A brief presentation of our “Society Transformation Scenario” (STS) in an interview with the authors Linda Schneider (Heinrich Böll Foundation) and Kai Kuhnhenn.
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Better Believe the Hype!
Tabea Latocha on the socialization conference in Berlin in early October: "A promising movement is emerging." We are part of it.
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Fair and ecological distribution of housing through socialization
The socialization of housing can enable a fair and ecological distribution. This is the argument of the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie newly published dossier on “fair distribution of housing”.
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Energy prices: It is important to break the fossil cycle
An article by Lasse Thiele on how real relief can be provided in the energy price crisis without ending up with new fossil fuels.
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Interview on hydrogen & climate justice
Lasse Thiele talks about our dossier on “Hydrogen and Climate Justice” and the concept work in general in a 12-minute radio interview.
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Energy tariffs must be socially and climate-friendly
Core element of the new dossier from Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie is a right to a basic energy supply. This should be implemented through progressive energy tariffs that create security for everyone during the energy transition while simultaneously limiting luxury consumption.
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Socialize for Future
A more detailed version of the article of the same name by Lasse Thiele in this guest article on the topic: Why the climate movement should also think more about socialization strategies.
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Does the hydrogen strategy pose a climate justice risk?
Will the new hydrogen hype also lead to unfair exploitation of the world?
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STUDIO KOMPLEX: Progress through regression
Is renunciation too negative? This podcast devotes almost an hour to the topic of progress and renunciation from many perspectives. Nina Treu, among others, explains why we live happier, more socially just, and more sustainably with less.
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Degrowth, nowtopias, and the pluriverse
In this English-language podcast, Tonny Nowshin, Matthias Schmelzer, and Nina Treu talk about the possible strategic development of the degrowth movement and what it can learn from other progressive movements.
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The best thing would be to get out of capitalism
Interview with Nicolas Guenot about paths to a good digital life for everyone. The computer scientist explains how this can be achieved – and who will have to make sacrifices to achieve it.
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How can industry save energy?
Article by Max Heeke on the energy transition and the necessary restructuring of energy-intensive industries. He refers to the climate justice check "Saving the Climate with a Green Market Economy" by Konzeptwerk.
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Better than before is not enough
Interview with Mia Smettan and Ruth Krohn about the dependence of a growth-oriented economy on imported energy, the problem with “green growth” and why a democratization of the economy is needed.
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How the post-growth movement can become more powerful
"Degrowth by Design – not by Disaster!" is the slogan of the post-growth movement. Despite all the crises, this demand is barely present in the media and political discourse. Matthias Schmelzer and Nina Treu discuss what is needed to change this.
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Can a green market economy save the climate?
The climate policy of the "traffic light" coalition fuels the illusion that the necessary transformation can be achieved through technical solutions alone. But we need fundamental changes in our way of life and production. A 10-minute interview with Ruth Krohn.
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No more time for either-or
Climate protection requires all available measures. And it requires visions of a livable, transformative society, writes Anika Limbach, referring to our topics of degrowth, socio-ecological transformation, and a future for all.
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Parties miss 1,5-degree target
Nathan Niedermeier's article refers to our calculations of the CO₂ budgets of individual parties. These all state that Germany will emit more CO₂ by the time it reaches climate neutrality than the scientifically calculated upper limit for a 1,5-degree warming limit.
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The parties in the climate check
The federal election in September will be a landmark for the climate. Ina Lebedjew speaks with Marita Fischer and Ronja Morgenthaler about the parties' election manifestos and their climate goals.
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The false promise of 1,5 degrees
In this article, Elena Erdmann analyzes why the 1,5 degree climate targets are being missed and how the CO2 emissions calculated by us from the party programs of the CDU/CSU, Greens, SPD, Left Party, and FDP relate to the remaining CO2 budget for Germany.
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Parties are not on course for 1,5 degrees
Sandra Kirchner's election platform check: "How much climate destruction are you willing to vote for? None of the established parties has presented an election platform that is compatible with the 1,5-degree target of the Paris Agreement. However, differences are emerging."
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The climate news of the week
In this episode, climate editors Susanne Schwarz and Lena Wrba from Klimahub discuss the most important climate news of the week. Starting at minute 10, they present our analysis of the election platform.
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Election manifesto analysis “Is climate justice electable?”
A 10-minute interview with Kai Kuhnhenn about the extent to which, and whether, parliamentary politics is the appropriate means for effective climate protection.
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A good life for all through a socio-ecological transformation?!
It's about post-growth, transformative education, a good life for all, utopias, and much more. In the interview, Ronja Morgenthaler explains why we should work together for change now, what role we as civil society play in this, and why we need more utopias.
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A Leipzig think tank outlines a left-wing utopia for the middle of the 21st century.
In her essay "For a New Left Narrative and Where We Must Look for It," Julia Fritzsche outlines an optimistic outlook, referring to our project "Future for All: A Vision for 2048."
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20 hours of paid work per week are enough
In an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau, Charlotte Hitzfelder talks about alienation at work, the fair distribution of care work – and about the fact that 20 hours a week are actually enough.
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Green growth: Is it even possible?
Green growth is supposed to combine economic growth with environmental protection. But does this actually work, or is consumption always harmful to the environment? Ronja Morgenthaler poses this question at detektor.fm.
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Measures against the climate crisis
Bernhard Pötter talks about the climate protection scenarios of our “Societal Transformation Scenario” and how they can be incorporated into the new IPCC climate report.
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Can the 1,5-degree target still be achieved without technological miracles?
Most climate scenarios rely on technologies that we do not know if they will ever exist. A new study from the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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Post-growth is like lockdown: It hurts
Nina Treu and Tadzio Müller have been part of the climate movement for years and in this debate they address the question: Is there a socio-ecological transformation that takes everyone along?
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Future Congress Optimism for all
How a congress in Leipzig imagines the world in 2048 – and looks for ways to turn utopias into reality.
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A future for all
A short portrait of Nina Treu and her work at Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie. It calls for an ecologically sustainable economy.
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Stop growth!
What might an economy without growth look like? Could it function? Our contributor Matthias Schmelzer discusses this topic at the NDR Info theme evening.
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“Future for all” – does it exist?
At the start of the “Future For All” congress, Ronja Morgenthaler gives insights into the organization and vision for a sustainable tomorrow in an interview with MDR Kultur.
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No Growth – Alternative Economic Concepts
Positive visions of an economy and future that inspires no fear. Nina Treu answers the question: How can the economy be organized in the future?
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Concrete utopias
In Leipzig and online, social activists are thinking about how climate-friendly transformation can succeed.
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We need positive visions against the dystopia in our minds
Mia Smettan and Charlotte Hitzfelder in conversation with Lukas Ondreka.
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Talking and thinking about a different future
Konzeptwerk employee Ronja Morgenthaler in an interview on the Agora42 blog about a positive vision for 2048 and the Future For All conference.
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The future is made by us!
The Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie presents a vision for the year 2048 and will discuss it at a conference online and in Leipzig at the end of August.
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Expert on climate crisis and capitalism: “A scrappage bonus on everything”
Konzeptwerk employee Ruth Krohn in an interview with Taz about Corona, the climate crisis and capitalism.
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Does the economy always have to grow?
If the economy stagnates, we're headed for crisis—is that really true? Nina Treu explains how the coronavirus crisis can lead society toward a new economy.2
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Corona and the economic consequences: Against the growth fetish
A guest commentary by Konzeptwerk employees Andrea Vetter, Matthias Schmelzer and Christoph Sanders on the political possibility and necessity of a solidarity-based post-growth society.
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Competition, envy and egoism are no longer the foundations
An interview from the future with our employees Nina Treu and Kai Kuhnhenn.
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A utopia for the year 2048
An article about our project "Future for all – fair. ecological. feasible." We formulate twelve theses for the year 2048.
