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New art call presentation and discussion: Economic relocalization Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Join us to discuss much-needed Economic Relocalization –and share ideas about how to visualize it– based on the Think Resilience course by Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute.

March 31, 2023

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How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?

Unpicking the dominant, growth-based worldview will mean closely analysing the stories we have been told (and who those stories might serve), and bravely and courageously assessing whether all of this growth really does bring us ‘the good life’.

March 31, 2023

Grave of Karl Marx

Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution

Saito’s book is refreshing because it helps end an old feud between socialists who trust that new technologies and the automation of work can deliver an expanding economy with greater leisure time and those who argue for a socialism without growth.

March 30, 2023

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America’s Fossil Fuel Economy is Heading for Collapse – It Signals the End of the Oil Age

US oil production is about to peak, but the world is unprepared for the tremendous economic and political consequences. The only path through is energy and economic transformation.

March 29, 2023

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Post Carbon Institute: Looking Back, Looking Forward

This year Post Carbon Institute turns 20, so it’s a good time to take stock. What have we done, what’s left to do?

March 28, 2023

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The ‘enshittification’ of the corporate world

In other words, the diagnosis of ‘enshittification’ is right on the money. But the disease is far more widespread, and goes far deeper, than Doctorow suggests.

March 23, 2023

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The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism

In the Fishing Revolution, capital in pursuit of profit organized human labor to turn living creatures into an immense accumulation of commodities. From 1600 on, up to 250,000 metric tons of cod a year were caught, processed, and preserved in Newfoundland and transported across the ocean for sale.

March 23, 2023

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