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We are excited to invite you to the Online Degrowth Movement Assembly, a space for collective reflection, exchange, and action-oriented discussions to strengthen the degrowth movement.
Date: April 22nd and April 24th
Time: 3:00–6:00 PM UTC each day
Place: Online
Languages: English. Spanish-speaking groups if volunteers are available.
This two-day assembly will focus on:
- Degrowth in practice through policy interventions and place-based experiences
- Supporting place-based and decentralised organising for Degrowth
- Networking and collective empowerment
- Presentation of IDN’s work and circles (brief overview)
- Group discussions on key topics (theory and practice, personal and organisational challenges, cultural transformation)
- Special session: Degrowth and decolonial perspectives
Closing reflections, evaluation and next steps
- Degrowth in practice, movements, and actions worldwide: Moving towards collaborative projects (activism, policy, events, communication)
- Creative visioning exercise: The future of degrowth conferences
- Closing reflections, evaluation and next steps
This assembly serves as a starting point for deeper conversations and actions that will inform the Onsite Degrowth Movement Assembly in Oslo, right before the ISEE-Degrowth Conference, and continue to evolve throughout the year, both within and beyond the International Ddegrowth Network.
In solidarity,
The Organising Team
A review of Giorgos Kallis’ new book Although the number of publications about degrowth has been exploding in the last decade – with hundreds of articles as well as dozens of edited volumes and special issues already published – until now there had not been a single academic monograph systematically outlining what degrowth is all about. Of course, the broad contours of the concept of degrowth...
Until recently terms like “carbon accounting,” “carbon footprint” and “carbon offsetting” would have raised some quizzical eyebrows among the general public. Today, such carbon-based metrics are everywhere, but are they helpful or unhelpful in motivating the necessary action on climate change? Although the case for metrics may seem incontrovertible, what is measured is always a political choic...
This Article was written by Jennifer Hinton and Donnie Maclurcan of the Post Growth Institute for the postconference “Stream towards Degrowth”. An annual event, Free Money Day, was created in 2011 and is run by the Post Growth Institute. Each September 15th, people all over the world hand out their own money to complete strangers, two [...]
