Tag Archives: steady state economy

The Post Growth Challenge

Posted on 4 January, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

The Post Growth Challenge Extended deadline – midnight, GMT, Wednesday 31 March, 2021. An initiative in collaboration with the Manchester Meteor and the Systems Change Alliance. What? A cooperative challenge to find a better way to present the post-growth alternative. … Continue reading →

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An economy that does not grow?

Posted on 9 November, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

An economy that does not grow? Mark H Burton                                                                                                                                      pdf version Spanish translation here /Traducción a castellano-enlace There is now plenty of evidence that economic growth is highly problematic for human welfare and survival. The evidence comes from three … Continue reading →

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Is the UK Labour party facing up to a post-growth future?

Posted on 3 February, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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Practical degrowth for Labour

Posted on 19 December, 2017 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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Living within limits to Growth: How?

Posted on 8 May, 2017 by The Steady State Manchester team

Living within limits to Growth – how do we do it? Talk given by Mark H Burton, Steady State Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, 6 May, 2017. Here are the notes and illustrations used in this talk.  It covers the following … Continue reading →

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STEADY STATE Part One: The National and International Context

Posted on 21 August, 2016 by The Steady State Manchester team

This interview piece appears in Manchester’s Now Then magazine.  A second installment, on the Greater Manchester context will appear in the next issue. Click HERE to read the interview.  Thanks to Ian Pennington at Now Then for inviting us and … Continue reading →

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‘How can education help to shape a Steady State culture? A Discussion Paper’

Posted on 18 November, 2015 by judith515

We are delighted that SSM has inspired Susan Brown to write: ‘How can education help to shape a Steady State culture? A Discussion Paper’. We highly recommend that supporters read it. Below, and in more detail in the summary at … Continue reading →

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Calais and the Viable Economy

Posted on 3 August, 2015 by judith515

I am trying to read the newspaper.  The sense of horror and helplessness which has been pre-occupying me over the last few days and weeks has driven me to write this blog.  No doubt many readers have similar feelings as … Continue reading →

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