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Events • 15.07.2023

Beyond Growth 2023: critical reflections on a “historic conference” with blind spots.

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By: Myriam Best

After the excitement of an intense three-days Beyond Growth Conference 2023 (BGC), attended by 7,000 participants (on-site and online), the time is ripe to distil critical reflections.

Money • 05.07.2023

Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts

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By: Charles Stevenson

Degrowth must confront the structural lock-ins of capitalism starting with the debt crisis trapping the Global South in poverty and extractivism.

Announcements • 23.05.2023

Degrowth journal goes live

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The first publications of the Degrowth Journal are online!

Events • 18.05.2023

Shift Slow is thrilled to announce that tickets are open for Alt - Shift: a Degrowth Festival 2nd Edition!

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Alt+Shift is a combination of keys that allows us to open up a window of possibilities from the few keys that we are given in our keyboard. We need new tools and a new narrative, that must be altogether altering, alternative and altruistic.

Reviews • 04.05.2023

'The Future is Degrowth' and 'Degrowth & Strategy': a Review in Dialogue

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By: Samuel Singer

While it is now largely clear what degrowth is striving for, how to realize the transformation towards this end state has not been engaged with satisfactorily. The Future is Degrowth (TFiD) and Degrowth & Strategy (D&S), two books that now complement the burgeoning popular literature on degrowth, set out to find answers to this underexplored question.

Technology • 13.04.2023

The Myth of Sisyphus and the 'State of Carbon Dioxide Removal'

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By: Sofia Greaves

'The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal' report, published in January 2023, was presented as ‘a first-of-its kind, independent, scientific assessment.’ Rather than questioning the quite genuine commitment of scientists and researchers working to address climate change, the Myth of Sisyphus highlights a fundamental problem with the ontology of sustainability Science itself