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Pluriversal learning: pathways toward a world of many worlds

In varied contexts around the world, groups and communities forging different kinds of futures are challenging the universal desirability of development toward ever-greater production, consumption, and ecological footprints. This article is about learning from some of those pathways in order to broaden horizons for conversations about degrowth beyond Europe where they first gained traction. It...

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Title: Degrowth: Less Resource Use for More Wellbeing and Resilience

By: Susan Paulson

While the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals direct all countries to reduce environmental impacts, governments and businesses continue to promise and prioritize economic growth. Degrowth theory draws on the science of thermodynamics to illuminate systemic impacts of this growth: societal metabolisms transform material and energy into goods and services in processes that convert low...

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A Coherent Monetary Theory is a Threat to the Capitalist State

By: Charles Stevenson, Ellen Helker-Nygren

Marxian political economists often criticise Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) for its lack of class analysis. While these critiques are right to point out that MMT has often been presented as the saviour of capitalism and growth, its insights are also of use to those who wish to see an end to capitalism and growth. While many proponents of MMT are not interested in a world beyond capitalism, the...

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A Degrowth Housing Vision for Maine

By: Patrick Loftus

I’m in the Degrowth master’s program at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and in one of my classes on housing we were asked to envision: what would a transition to a degrowth society look like in your community? I’ve lived in different parts of New England like Connecticut and Boston throughout my life, but recently moved to central Maine for the first time last year with my partner who grew...

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Cloud capital, degrowth, and strategy for the polycrisis: a conversation with Yanis Varoufakis

By: Charles Stevenson

On July 5, 2015, at the height of the eurozone debt crisis, the Greek demos voted by a wide margin to turn down the bailout offered to them by their Troika of creditors – the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. At the time, the Greek Finance Minister was Yanis Varoufakis, who had the opportunity to confront the Troika, and to put an end to the...

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Degrowth Network Australia

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As degrowth becomes a more familiar term worldwide, a loose informal network of Australian degrowth activists, scholars and advocates has emerged into the formal Degrowth Network Australia (DNA). The network has a public launch in a participatory degrowth workshop at 2pm–4pm on 26 February 2023 — a National Sustainable Living Festival event at the Black Spark Cultural Centre in Northcote, an...

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4th International Assembly of The Degrowth Movement

By: Members of the open collective ODN

To be or not to be... a movement? It is time to choose and put degrowth into practice.

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Shift Slow is thrilled to announce that tickets are open for Alt - Shift: a Degrowth Festival 2nd Edition!

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Alt+Shift is a combination of keys that allows us to open up a window of possibilities from the few keys that we are given in our keyboard. We need new tools and a new narrative, that must be altogether altering, alternative and altruistic.

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Pope Francis still advocates for Degrowth

By: Oscar Krüger

Can the Catholic church be an ally for degrowth?

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Walking for Peace as Wars Rage On

By: Áine Donnellan

Walk Peace EU's marches for justice gather people together to walk across country borders and connect. This invitation to 'walk the talk' prompts us to question whether we live what we preach, then act on the insights gained during the walk.

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"We invent nothing, or only very little." A portrait of Les Soulèvements de la Terre and some reflections

By: Myriam Best

In this article Myriam Best analyses the ongoing french movement Earth Uprisings which struggles for land and water commons and the dismantlement of the techno-industrial capitalist complex.

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Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth

By: Donatella Gasparro, Daniele Vico

Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.