Category Archives: news

The Steady State Manchester Solidarity Grant

Posted on 30 August, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

Permanent page for this scheme (any updates and changes will appear there). We now offer a small grant (up to a few hundred pounds) to very small groups who want to do something original to challenge the damaging growth model … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Viable Future Mark: the first five awards

Posted on 29 July, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Viable Future Mark. This award is being given to groups and organisations whose work is consistent with our vision of a Viable Greater Manchester. Viable Greater Manchester means a post-growth society … Continue reading →

Posted in Greater Manchester, news, Viable Future Mark | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Greater Manchester is overspending its carbon budget and Places for Everyone will make it much worse.

Posted on 24 March, 2022 by The Steady State Manchester team

byMark Burton (Steady State Manchester)andMatthew Broadbent (Save Greater Manchester Green Belt) Download as a pdf file This post is also available at Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt and The Meteor The Greater Manchester Environment Plan isn’t delivering. minor edits, 12 … Continue reading →

Posted in analysis, Greater Manchester, news, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in analysis, news, publications | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in analysis, news | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Greater Manchester City Region, news, Planning | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Greater Manchester City Region, news, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in analysis, degrowth, education, event reports, further reading, news, theory | Tagged , | 1 Comment