Culture • 19.12.2024
Only days away from Christmas, Hannah Morris deplores its co-optation into a capitalist fiesta.
Food • 09.12.2024
Crusty Bread, creamy cheese, bubbly kimchi or refreshing tepache – all cultures have fermented foods and beverages with their own traditions, language, and cultural heritage surrounding them. Fermentation, in this sense, is a living food culture that taps into ancient skills and traditional knowledge. But this knowledge is under attack. As capitalism continues its onslaught on rural, indigenous...
Strategy • 12.11.2024
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
Can the Catholic church be an ally for degrowth?
Announcements • 23.09.2024
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
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
Oliver Lewis argues that the degrowth movement must not shy away from engaging with its critics
Strategy • 08.07.2024
An open letter presented at the 2024 degrowth conference, which calls for addressing inequalities in the degrowth movement
Decolonisation • 10.06.2024
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
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
degrowth.info speaks to Climate Vanguard, the UK-based organisation seeking to radicalise the youth climate movement around ecosocialism.
Technology • 29.02.2024
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” ...
