Monthly Archives: November 2018

In this podcast, Michel Bauwens joins some dots together and explains why the open source movement, the growing prevalence of peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms and new technologies like blockchain create the potential to create a fundamentally different economic model that … Continue reading →

We should be looking degrow the advertising industry in absolute terms…but an advert with an anti-palm oil message gets banned for being ‘too political’. Meanwhile car/airline adverts, those that promote needless consumption, and body shame, are innocently apolitical?! https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/09/iceland-christmas-tv-ad-banned-political-greenpeace-orangutan

Petition text The pursuit of economic growth is not environmentally sustainable, and it is failing to reduce inequalities, foster democracy and ensure well-being of citizens. We call on the European Union, its institutions, and member states to… https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/europe-it-s-time-to-end-the-growth-dependency

From the 21st until the 25th of August 2018, the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity took place in Malmö, Sweden. It was organized by an international group and the newly formed Institutet för nerväxtstudier (Institute … Continue reading →

The OAT 2019 will challenge the supremacy of economic growth as the basis of contemporary societies and investigate the architecture of alternatives. The festival will explore social and spatial structures in which human and ecological flourishing matter most: The Architecture … Continue reading →

The 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Malmö, Sweden, August 21-26, was my fourth degrowth conference – and another big success in the degrowth movement. The distinguishing hallmark of the Malmö conference was that it … Continue reading →

“When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s … Continue reading →

It’s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich’s The Secret of Eternal Growth was published so close to Halloween. It’s so full of outlandish bogeymen, it sits perfectly alongside the ghouls and the ghosts of the trick-or-treat season. The thrust of his … Continue reading →

In 2018, the idea that we need a special holiday to be scared feels a little strange. Zombies, vampires, and werewolves don’t seem so frightening when the real world provides us with Vladimir Putin, white supremacists, and greenhouse gas emissions. … Continue reading →

The European Union is seemingly fixated by economic growth. ‘Jobs, growth and investment’ is the European Commission’s headline priority and Eurozone budgets are carefully checked in the name of stability and growth. Yet is the pursuit of economic growth fueling … Continue reading →