Links to the rich ecosystem of organisations and resources exploring, explaining and promoting steady state / post-growth / degrowth thinking.
2023 – needs updating: suggestions?
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If you are working on, or interested in, degrowth, then you might like to join the UK degrowth network (email group) to connect with academics and activists working on degrowth to a steady state economy: the volume of mail is not large so your inbox won’t get overloaded. To join, send an email to the following address. To guard against machine generated spam, we give it in two parts – just put them together.
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Degrowth Scotland / Enough Scotland
“Enough! is an informal collective of activists in Scotland who have come together to take action on challenging our dominant economic system. We believe that inequality, oppression, injustice, power and ecological breakdown are all connected by the same story.” We like their Degrowth Handbook – a course compilation and free to download.
Localise West Midlands Group doing excellent work down there in the once Black Country.
LowImpact.org A really useful compendium of resources related to low impact living.
A short video about why infinite growth on a finite planet is maybe not such a good idea.
The Impossible Hamster
More than a decade old and for some reason YouTube thinks it’s age-restricted. Well actually it is scary!
Why growth is not enough (Kate Raworth / RSA)
Degrowth explained – from Grist a bit American, but sound.
Carbon Omissions – on the UK’s total carbon emissions from PIRC
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier
A short introduction to economic localization.
Various Institutions and Foundations
All Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth
see their 2016 report, authored by Tim Jackson and Robin Webster, Limits Revisited: a review of the Limits to Growth debate and a great primer on the issues.
German degrowth web portal (in English)
Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy
PCES: Post-Crash Economics Society
The City 2.0 (an offshoot of TED talks)
Climate Access – The network for those engaging the public in the transformation to low-carbon, resilient communities.
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Climate Bites offers metaphors, soundbites, quotes, humor, cartoons, stories and graphics for everybody who talks about climate change and wants their message to stick
Inequality: Why are the rich getting richer?
Skeptical Science Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism
Platform… London, another great resource)
Tree Station – just the kind of thing we want to see flourish and grow in a viable economy!
A Green Deal for the Manchester-Mersey Bioregion a visionary piece from 2008 from SSM’s Mark Burton
Wikipedia on
Ecological Economics
Steady-State Economics
“De-growth”
Eco-sufficieincy
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