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Category Archives: Politics
In conversation
Our good friends at Manchester Green New Deal interviewed SSM collective member, Mark Burton for their podcast series. It is a lengthy discussion exploring the Limits to Growth and the Degrowth movement as well as reflections on the relationships between … Continue reading
Accountability for the Mayor of Greater Manchester: Participatory Governance?
Accountability for the Mayor of Greater Manchester: Participatory Governance in the 21st Century by James Scott Vandeventer It has been over a year since Greater Manchester elected its first Mayor. Since then, Mayor Andy Burnham has worked to build the … Continue reading
Will UK government commit to real climate change action, or continue to prevaricate?
As the world experiences record high temperatures, from the Arctic to Africa and India, Steady State Manchester collective member Richard Shirres has written a powerful letter to the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Some key … Continue reading
Is the UK Labour party facing up to a post-growth future?
Following recent short articles on this theme, here is a longer, more analytic treatment. A personal perspective from the author. Download the full article as a pdf file. Is the UK Labour party facing up to a post-growth future? by … Continue reading
Practical degrowth for Labour
The article below is a slightly longer version of the piece published on the SERA (Labour Environment Campaign) website on 17 December, 2017. See also this piece, also by Mark, which was carried on the Left Foot Forward website, in … Continue reading
A political party argues for degrowth
Remember when politicians in the UK wouldn’t risk arguing strongly against austerity? That changed with the June General Election but there are still things that appear to be “unsayable” in polite political company. One of those is to suggest that … Continue reading
Check the party policies with our Viable Economy tool!
Bemused by the many promises on offer from the political parties? One way to evaluate them is against our “policy checker” based on our Viable Economy framework. We want to live in a world that is viable, rather than one … Continue reading
Let’s reclaim bank holidays: Introducing the climate holiday
by James Scott Vandeventer Did you enjoy the record-breaking weather across the U.K. over the long weekend, despite a sneaking suspicion that this feels like accelerating climate change? With two four-day weeks, the pressure at work hopefully felt a bit … Continue reading →