Monthly Archives: May 2023

La Grande transition 2023 / The Great Transition 2023 Public · Event · by Collectif La Grande transition Concordia University May 18-21 2023 https://facebook.com/events/s/la-grande-transition-2023-the-/938623400775025/ I only heard about this this morning through a completely unrelated Facebook post! 😟 I haven’t … Continue reading →

Degrowth is at the heart of the debates at the EU Parliament in Brussels, in the framework of the Beyond Growth Conference organised by 20 European MP’s from several political families, supported by more than 60 partner organisations and opened … Continue reading →

The oceans are a gigantic heat sponge, absorbing 90% of planetary heat, enabling life to go on within its 10,000-yr Goldilocks Holocene cycle, not too hot not to cold. But times are changing very rapidly. For the first time that … Continue reading →

We are changing the web site which <<http://degrowth.ca>&gt; takes you to. If you wish to continue reviewing my “blog” that has been hosted here since 2011, please change the address to <<http://post-growth.ca>&gt; Be sure to include the hyphen – as … Continue reading →

In this paper, we argue that the notion of Creative Destruction underpinning classical innovation management theory as well as having crystallised into technological determinism and productivism has come to a dead-end. Framing innovation’s ultimate goal as the endless pursuit of … Continue reading →

Gregory Claeys UTOPIANISM FOR A DYING PLANET Life After Consumerism Princeton University Press Claeys examines the ways that utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today’s thinkers, can offer moral and … Continue reading →