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. This will be a special conversation hosted by Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, the relationships between climate change, 'just transition', and social transformation will be discussed in the context of Rojava / North-East Syria.
In preparation, they recommend reading MG’s groundbreaking zine: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition.
The picture above shows some of the statues decorating the northern entrance of the Corvinus University in Budapest where the recent Degrowth Conference took place. The building has not always been a university. It once was a place of trade, and the statues over the entrance depict virtues which, back then, were considered central to trade. Virtues like courage, faith, love and honesty. When di...
By Lasse Thiele The first part of this article offered an introduction to post-development thought, which for decades has been trying to deconstruct Western models of prosperity and growth. This second part introduces some of the countless linkages between critiques of development and contemporary European critiques of growth. The discourse on sufficiency for example - the idea of recognizing...
In order to make our conference a truly democratic and inclusive event, we have started an exciting crowdfunding-campaign. It will run for 55 days and ends shortly before the conference. Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to participate in the conference and to contribute to a change towards a society beyond the imperative of economic growth. In order to achieve this, however, we...
