Joe is a member of the degrowth.info collective, and the blog working group. He is a researcher based in London, and a founding member of Degrowth London. @joefherb.bsky.social
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By: Joe Herbert, Hannah Morris
Members of the degrowth.info collective offer some reflections on the 2025 International Degrowth Conference
By: Joe Herbert
For every executive, financier and oligarch in London chasing power and obscene wealth, there are multiple times more people seeking to build inclusive, joyful, and sustainable communities. Degrowth London is a new group joining this effort.
By: Joe Herbert, Nathan Barlow, Jacob Smessaert, Carol Bardi
Degrowthers have recently seemed to find a lot of inspiration in Erik Olin Wright’s framework of political strategies for transformations beyond capitalism. In this blog post, we wish to highlight some crucial insufficiencies of Wright’s framework in relation to degrowth transformations, and propose some adaptations which can enhance its utility for further strategy discussions.
By: Joe Herbert
The idea of the ‘15-minute city’ has recently gained traction amongst policy-makers as an urban innovation with the potential to address intersecting social and ecological challenges of the post-COVID world. But its lack of an embedded politics presents a danger as much as it does an opportunity.
