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As both 2025 and our series on "movements for social and environmental justice worldwide" come to an end, we reflect on what solidarity across Global South and Global North movements mean in practice.
By: Constanza Hepp
More than just a politician, the former president of Uruguay, José “Pepe” Mujica, was a source of inspiration and a living embodiment of degrowth principles (even if he didn't use the term): voluntary simplicity, social justice, and ecological responsibility.
By: The Support Group of the International Degrowth Conferences
The Support Group is currently open to expressions of interest from parties who wish to organize the 2027 edition of the International Conference Series on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity.
By: The degrowth.info editorial team
Degrowth.info is launching a call for blog posts that will constitute a series on movements for social and environmental justice, with a focus on Global South struggles and organising. Do you have a story to contribute?
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: 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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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 inner suburb of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).
By: Members of the open collective ODN
The first International Degrowth Conference held in Paris in 2008 was followed by another ten other conferences, most of which took place in Europe. These conferences provided room for the Degrowth community to meet and exchange on latest research. In Christiania Town (Copenhagen) in 2018, just before the 6th International Degrowth Conference in Malmö, degrowthers met in a new format. Going beyond research-related conversations, they instead discussed the “how” of Degrowth and started to organise the movement.