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Past Events

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06 – 07 November 2024

Conference: Development Beyond Growth – Global and Local Perspectives on Just Transitions

The conference will address the question of whether Just Transitions that respect planetary boundaries and enhance social wellbeing require alternative forms of economic systems and development that go beyond a focus on economic growth. The goal is to provide a space for exchange between practitioners and academics from the so-called Global South and North who are working on these topics.

02 – 05 November 2024

Newkind: a festival-style social change conference

Newkind is a festival-style social change conference that creates a space for people to come together to celebrate our humanity and inspire positive social action. It takes place on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Redbank, Victoria, Australia.

26 October 2024

Growing out of Growth (GooG) Festival

Are you fed up with the way things are in the world and think the current obsession with economic growth doesn’t make sense? Sounds like it’s time to grow out of growth! Come join us in exploring how to progress to a post-growth society and celebrating the degrowth movement!

22 October 2024

The Pathways Forum. Rethinking economics in a finite world: practical applications of social metabolism

  The Future Earth Pathways Initiative is organizing a new webinar, as part of their Pathways Forum series, which will focus on practical applications of social metabolism. On October 22nd, we will be looking into what it means to weigh cities, how we can use material footprints to assess transition scenarios, and how social metabolic approaches uncover unequal ecological exchanges on a global...

05 October 2024

Reclaiming Community Practices: From Fashion Industry to Fashion Commons.

At this (online) Assembly, Saturday, October 5 · 10am - 1pm CEST, experts will speak about how to degrow the European Fashion System and move towards a fashion commons whilst centering justice. Commons are alternatives to growth-based capitalist systems, emerging when communities collaborate to self-provision or to reach shared goals in fair and democratic ways. OC.M, a project powered by ...

29 September 2024

Emergency Committee for Rojava Study Group: Ecosocialism & Democratic Modernity

The Emergency Committee for Rojava organises on Sunday, September 29th at 1pm EST the next session of their ongoing study group series Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution! This month’s topic: ecosocialism – a radical political philosophy identifying the profit-driven capitalist system as the root cause of our ecological crisis, and advocating a socialist society based on egalitarianism, c...

20 September 2024

Towards a Globally Just Berlin– Transforming the City Together

24/7 – BER Conference Towards a Globally Just Berlin– Transforming the City Together Friday, September 20, 2024, 9 AM – 8 PM at Berlin Global Village 24/7 – For years, BER and its members have been working together on the vision of One World City Berlin: a globally just, anti-racist, and sustainable city. We are guided by the question of how to collectively transform our city. With th...

01 – 04 September 2024

Summer school: Life after Growth

Deadline for applications: 2024, 5th May After decades of dogmatising economic growth as a measure and necessity of progress and well-being, the implications for the planet and societies are increasingly becoming hard to ignore. Public discourse in research and policy are progressively embracing post-growth perspectives. But in the meantime, the fable of unlimited growth has expanded across ...

28 July 2024 – 03 August 2024

Alt-Shift Festival 2024

  We are Shift Slow, a youth-led organisation devoted to creating informal educational opportunities on post-growth and degrowth futures. Our main activity is organising the Alt Shift Festival, a degrowth festival that offers critical and creative education on post-growth cultures and eco-social strategies. It is a festival that creates a space for fun, emotional learning and sharing on degrow...

17 June 2024

5th International Assembly of the Degrowth Movement

Registrations for the 5th International Assembly of the Degrowth Movement are now open!  Please note that registration (for both online and in person participation) is mandatory and that everyone is welcome to attend.