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Culture Declares Emergency calls arts and culture professionals to action
By: Neus Crous Costa
08.12.2025
The cultural sector has a crucial role to play in both imagining and enacting sustainable futures. In this article Neus Crous Costa explores the interlinkages between culture and the environment, and how the international movement Culture Declares Emergency aims to make a change.
By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Lavrenty Repin, Russ Cubrich, Sofia Kovarich
At the end of the Degrowth Cabaret at the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo, a handful of conference attendees started a backwards walk from Christiania, Oslo, to Christiania, Copenhagen. Degrowth.info talked to them to learn more about this peculiar feat.
By: Seerat Bashir
In this article, Seerat Bashir documents the seasonal migrations and cultural heritage of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities in the mountains of Kashmir alongside the challenges they face in preserving their identity when confronted by modernisation and climate change.
By: Hannah Morris
Only days away from Christmas, Hannah Morris deplores its co-optation into a capitalist fiesta.
By: Julian Willming
In 2022, art collectives and curators of documenta15 restructured the practice of producing and presenting art: away from classicism and economical individualism towards a culture of commoning knowledge, sufficiency and embodied community. Is documenta15 thus a degrowth art event? Yes, to some extent. The way it failed demonstrates an important lesson for the degrowth movement.
By: Orsolya Lelkes
The notion of sustainable hedonism appears at first to be a provocation. Is it a paradox? Is it just more greenwashing nonsense? It is meant to puzzle, to perplex, and to propel. Sustainable Hedonism. A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth is a call to reflect on our beliefs and actions related to pleasure, joy and ecological sustainability.