Logo degrowth

Strategy • 24.11.2025

On degrowth politics and strategy

Image

By: Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel responds to critics of his interview published in the summer, therefore continuing the debate around "what is degrowth" and around the strategies to achieve degrowth.

Decolonisation • 17.11.2025

Debt as colonialism: the Debt for Climate movement at COP30

Capture d e%cc%81cran 2025 11 17 a%cc%80 17.21.51

By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Debt for Climate

Debt for Climate went to the COP30 to carry a specific, tangible proposal with the potential to address systemic change: debt cancellation. Considered a degrowth-leaning policy, this proposal refers to the partial or total deletion of debt contracted by a government. Read the interview.

Education • 10.11.2025

Transformative (Un)Learning: Education for a Degrowth Society

Echo workshop cropped

By: Marion Krämer, Timo Kretschmer

“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain degree of madness.” This article explores five ingredients that education should include to enable a societal transformation at the scale envisioned by degrowth.

Justice • 03.11.2025

On degrowth and veganism

Allotment cropped

By: Tom Webb

Degrowth and veganism have plenty in common. In this piece, Tom Webb explores what each movement can learn from the other.

Technology • 24.10.2025

Kreisler: Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth

Blog post cover   goetz

By: Cléo Mieulet

Kreisler, a space of community repair and share in Berlin that offers a hands-on response to the crises of overconsumption, social isolation, and infrastructural neglect.

Decolonisation • 17.10.2025

Delinking Global South from Global North: Political Strategies for Disrupting the Globalized World Order

Ashkan forouzani scppnskdiau unsplash

By: Sara al Mahdi

Formed in the wake of the International Degrowth Conference 2024 in Pontevedra - following an intervention by Luisa Emilia Reyes Zúñiga - the Delinking & Degrowth Collective convenes organisers, scholars, practitioners, and learners from around the world, within and beyond the degrowth community. Meeting monthly and coordinating via a shared WhatsApp hub, the collective uses leverage from w...

Strategy • 10.10.2025

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth

Stockcake mangrove aerial view 1760110786

By: Donatella Gasparro, Daniele Vico

Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

Strategy • 30.09.2025

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel

Hasan almasi rpvbfsaam9g unsplash 2

By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy

As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context.

Strategy • 23.09.2025

Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation

Mark konig ecgv8s2ipg0 unsplash

By: Charles Stevenson

Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology

Blog • 08.09.2025

How to ferment your own degrowth cabaret

186a4555 cropped

By: Chaga Collective

A living recipe by Chaga Collective: for joyful resistance, guided by fungi, ferment, and the courage to not know exactly what will flourish.

Justice • 01.09.2025

On Palestine

Pexels alfomedeiros 19544027

By: Members of Research & Degrowth International

We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples. Because there can be no Degrowth future without freedom for Palestine. Because Degrowth is fundamentally a liberation struggle; liberation from the Growth paradigm which relies on a colonial system of extraction, exploitation and vast inequalities in order to function.

Culture • 22.08.2025

Walking backwards because the world is going in the wrong direction: An interview with performance artists

Img 4992

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.

Do you have something to say?