Resilience, Re-agrarization and Post-Growth in the post-COVID Galicia
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Centro de Saberes para a Sustentabilidade
The good news is that the path to both improving our resilience and making a viable Energy Transition to a low-carbon economy, while minimizing the chances of catastrophic climate change, is the same: planning a controlled and socially fair reduction of the material sphere of the economy.
The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Resilience.org
The CUP programme advocates an Ecosocial Transition based on a degrowth of the economy in terms of energy and materials.
20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, 15/15\15
Degrowth carries within its own name an unmistakable message about its content (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem: the obsession with perpetual growth.
Peak oil resolution passed in Galicia
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Energy Bulletin
I'm happy to communicate that yesterday, 2009/08/27, the city council of the Borough of Teo, in Galicia (NW Spain), passed a resolution acknowledging peak oil. As far as we know it's the second Spanish local authority in doing so after La Palma in Canary Islands in 2007.