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A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth – free ebook

Posted on 8 October, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Our collection of writings is now available. A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth from Steady State Manchester is a collection of our work from the last decade. This monster (it’s nearly 400 pages long) is available as a free ebook, … Continue reading →

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Coming up: “A Viable Future?”

Posted on 7 October, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

We will shortly publish our collection of writings from Steady State Manchester from the last decade. A Viable Future? Explorations in post-growth from Steady State Manchester will be available as a free ebook (epub and pdf versions) and soon as … Continue reading →

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Consultation Response: Places for Everyone

Posted on 1 October, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Here is Steady State Manchester’s response to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s strategic spatial plan: Places for Everyone, formerly the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework. We have assessed the plan on the basis of its soundness (for the criteria set out … Continue reading →

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And then there were 9: Places for Everyone comments

Posted on 16 September, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

And then there were 9: Places for Everyone – the new GM Spatial Framework. Post updated 20 and 25 Sept, 2021 (minor updates and correction to carbon figures). Table of Contents Background Loss of Green Space Comments on the Integrated … Continue reading →

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Organizing degrowth – A talk at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Posted on 25 August, 2021 by James Scott Vandeventer

Steady State Manchester collective member James Scott Vandeventer was recently invited to speak on a panel at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. The following piece is adapted from this talk, which was based on his paper ‘Organizing degrowth: The … Continue reading →

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News about the Manchester Degrowth and Ecological Economics Conference, 5th – 8th JULY 2021

Posted on 14 May, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis The International Online Joint Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics, the international degrowth research networks and Steady State Manchester, hosted by … Continue reading →

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The Post Growth Challenge entries (2)

Posted on 28 April, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

This is the second of two posts in which we share entries from our Post Growth Challenge. You can read the first post HERE. Ideas for a post-growth policy package. Stanislas Rigal at the Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de … Continue reading →

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The Post Growth Challenge entries (1)

Posted on 20 April, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

We received some interesting entries for our Post Growth Challenge.  There weren’t so many as we’d have liked but, as they are all of interest, it does mean that we can share them all. We purposely called it a challenge … Continue reading →

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