Events
Past Events
25 June 2025
The geopolitics of Green colonialism and Emerging Green Sacrifice Zones in Africa
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives is hosting a series of webinars addressing some of the socio-ecological implications of the so-called “energy transition”. This session will turn to the African continent to explore how the energy transition is reshaping territories into new sacrifice zones, and to discuss the challenges and struggles that lie ahead.
21 – 22 June 2025
Rethinking Capitalism: Economics where People and the Environment matter
This two-day seminar in London includes discussion on some of the most pressing economic issues facing the world today.
29 May 2025 – 01 June 2025
The Great Transition - Reviving post-capitalist solidarities
The international conference The Great Transition will be held from Thursday May 29 to Sunday June 1st in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
28 May 2025
Feminist Municipalism: Local care politics in Grenoble, Hernani and Graz
Spaces Beyond Growth: Municipal Degrowth Network webinar event. A discussion at the intersection of feminisms, care, urban politics, municipalism and degrowth
15 May 2025
Collective Governance x Solidarity Economies: Lessons from Rojava
Collective Governance x Solidarity Economies: Lessons from Rojava is a free, collective study. Whether you’re here for a Rojava 101 or want a deeper dive into organizing strategies, join the call! There will be live Spanish interpretation, ASL & closed captioning. Join on May 15th at 12pm PT | 3pm ET.
14 – 15 May 2025
Just Transition Rising
Just Transition Rising is a two-day online gathering bringing together union leaders, grassroots organisers, campaigners, and policy advocates to explore how justice can be placed at the heart of climate action.
30 April 2025
Beyond Degrowth - Global South Series: Degrowth (Policies) Demystified
This series of online talks dives into the tensions and potential collaborations between the Degrowth movement and Global Majority Movements.
24 April 2025
Webinar: The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism
The webinar will build on the content of the recently published book The Sustainability Class. Environmentalism is about building class power to resist the decimation of life on our planet by a privileged minority.
22 – 24 April 2025
Degrowth Movement Assembly 2025
Join the online part of the 2025 international assembly of the degrowth movement!
05 March 2025
Syria Coops Update: Water Wars Amid Regime Change
This online event will give update on the current situation in Syria and give context on the huge changes occuring throughout Syria, with a particular focus on water, cooperatives, and the struggle for the means of life in the North-East (Rojava).
15 February 2025
El Calambache Workshop. Collectively Situated Knowledge: A decolonial research method for constructing collective auto-narratives and positionalities.
This is an in-person workshop in Athens, Greece, by El Calambache. It addresses two principal discrepancies that arise in the creation of scholar/activist knowledge with indigenous, rural and organized urban communities that seek to create a decolonial research methodologies.
16 January 2025
Webinar - Does the Global South Need to Grow?
Professor Rajeswari S. Raina and independent scholar Tone Smith will discuss various considerations and proposals for a post-growth future and its implications for regions that have played contrasting roles in the history of colonialism and imperialism.
19 December 2024
Beyond Degrowth – Global Majority Perspectives: Collective Reflection
This series of online talks dives into the tensions and potential collaborations between the Degrowth movement and Global Majority Movements.
17 December 2024
Emergency Committee for Rojava Study Group: Climate Justice & Social Transformation, with Movement Generation
The Emergency Committee for Rojava organises on Tuesday, December 17th at 5pm EST the end of the year session of their ongoing study group series Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution.
29 November 2024 – 02 December 2024
Roots Winter School 2024
Held annually in Athens, Roots Winter School (RWS) is a three-day progressive learning programme designed to cultivate hope, widen horizons, and catalyse action.
18 November 2024
Beyond Degrowth – Global Majority Perspectives: Dr Vandana
This series of online talks dives into the tensions and potential collaborations between the Degrowth movement and Global South Movements.
06 – 07 November 2024
Conference: Development Beyond Growth – Global and Local Perspectives on Just Transitions
The conference will address the question of whether Just Transitions that respect planetary boundaries and enhance social wellbeing require alternative forms of economic systems and development that go beyond a focus on economic growth. The goal is to provide a space for exchange between practitioners and academics from the so-called Global South and North who are working on these topics.
02 – 05 November 2024
Newkind: a festival-style social change conference
Newkind is a festival-style social change conference that creates a space for people to come together to celebrate our humanity and inspire positive social action. It takes place on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Redbank, Victoria, Australia.
26 October 2024
Growing out of Growth (GooG) Festival
Are you fed up with the way things are in the world and think the current obsession with economic growth doesn’t make sense? Sounds like it’s time to grow out of growth! Come join us in exploring how to progress to a post-growth society and celebrating the degrowth movement!
22 October 2024
The Pathways Forum. Rethinking economics in a finite world: practical applications of social metabolism
The Future Earth Pathways Initiative is organizing a new webinar, as part of their Pathways Forum series, which will focus on practical applications of social metabolism. On October 22nd, we will be looking into what it means to weigh cities, how we can use material footprints to assess transition scenarios, and how social metabolic approaches uncover unequal ecological...
10 October 2024
Beyond Degrowth – Global Majority Perspectives: gina cortés valderrama
This series dives into the tensions and potential collaborations between the Degrowth movement and Global South Movements.