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Strategy • 12.11.2024

Transformative learning spaces for degrowth: What could a degrowth conference look like?

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By: Amerissa Giannouli

This article summarises a proposal for reworking degrowth conferences that was developed in a workshop held by the Transformative Learning Circle (TLC) of the International Degrowth Network (IDN) at the 2024 International ESEE-Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra

Culture • 04.11.2024

Pope Francis still advocates for Degrowth

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By: Oscar Krüger

Can the Catholic church be an ally for degrowth?

Announcements • 23.09.2024

Movements for social and environmental justice worldwide: Call for blog pitches!

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team

Degrowth.info is launching a call for blog posts that will constitute a series on movements for social and environmental justice, with a focus on Global South struggles and organising. Do you have a story to contribute?

Justice • 04.09.2024

Call for an emergency campaign for the Maje Embera Drua territory in Panama

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By: Lázaro Mecha

Lázaro Mecha; as Chief of the Maje Embera Drua indigenous congress of Panama (on Maje Embera Drua), in the Bayano Region, which is currently organized by the indigenous congress (Maje Embera Drua indigenous congress):   The history of indigenous communities dates back to when the Bayano Region was occupied, in past centuries, by the Embera, Unión Embera and Maje Cordillera peoples. The constr...

Strategy • 30.07.2024

Degrowth and disagreement: Why engage with our strongest critics?

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By: Oliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis argues that the degrowth movement must not shy away from engaging with its critics

Strategy • 08.07.2024

Degrowthers of the World, Unite: A proposal for degrowth academics, activists, and practitioners to join forces as equals

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By: Vlad Bunea, Félix Garnier

An open letter presented at the 2024 degrowth conference, which calls for addressing inequalities in the degrowth movement

Decolonisation • 10.06.2024

National liberation in Palestine is an indispensable step towards degrowth

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By: Charles Stevenson, Inea Lehner, Feroz Khan

Writing from the encampment for Palestine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Charles Stevenson, Feroz Khan, and Inea Lehner argue that Palestinian liberation must be seen as central to a degrowth transformation

Education • 05.04.2024

Life after Growth: A peek into values, needs, and time for degrowth

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By: Life After Growth summer school participants

A reflection from participants of the Life After Growth summer school which took place in Kalentzi, Greece, in September 2023, and sought to rethink how we value, care for and nurture our collective affairs through the commons.

Strategy • 13.03.2024

An interview with Climate Vanguard

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Climate Vanguard

degrowth.info speaks to Climate Vanguard, the UK-based organisation seeking to radicalise the youth climate movement around ecosocialism.

Technology • 29.02.2024

What technology for degrowth?

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By: Vasilis Kostakis

The world crumbles around us. Wealth inequality is deepening while the human species is facing an existential crisis. Despite calls to accept neoliberalism as inevitable, our situation is not hopeless. However, placing hope in yet-to-materialize technology to address ecological crises and wealth inequality is audacious.   Narratives like “green growth”, “ecomodernism”, and “accelerationism” ...

Announcements • 22.02.2024

Launching Beyond Growth conferences across Europe

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Across Europe, politicians, academics and civil society  will explore the need for economic system transformation beyond growth at several national-level events. At least five Beyond Growth conferences have so far been confirmed, in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland and Italy  – most of them taking place within national Parliaments.   These events are a direct consequence of a large three-d...

Justice • 30.01.2024

Against Fortress Degrowth: The Need for a Border Perspective in the Degrowth Discourse

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By: Jenny Ufer

In degrowth, we often speak about how the relationship between the Global South and the Global North could look differently. But what happens at the edges, and how can we understand these edges or points of encounter in the degrowth discourse?

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