Degrowth for Engineering and Engineering for Degrowth
The steady-state/degrowth movement opens the possibility of re-defining “needs” and reorienting engineers to achieving equitable prosperity on our one shared planet.
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Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine”
Luddites are not – and have never been – anti-technology. Rather, they are pro-human, and see production as a means to an end: broadly shared prosperity.
Degrowth London: An Origin Story
Yet, whether it is this collective or another that resonates with your particular diagnosis of the current multidimensional crisis, it is only through joining together with others with the will to change the future that we stand any chance of contesting those who lead us ever further into catastrophe.
A People’s Prosperity
A growing number of organizations around the U.S. and beyond are already reenvisioning growth and prosperity in ways that advance communal needs and planetary stewardship.
Volume 1: “Stories of Regeneration and Resilience”
This volume contains seven stories of resistance, resilience and regeneration across the world that highlight how peoples proactive responses to the multiple crises the world faces—ecological, socio-cultural, political, economic, spiritual—are widespread and diverse.
Degrowth and Masculinities: Towards a gendered understanding of degrowth subjectivities
In the dominant cultural imaginary of growth societies, this figure of the growth subject is powerfully gendered: it is coded as masculine.
What is a “luxury economy,” really?
Energy and materials flows must (a normative and ethical claim) shrink to avert worst case scenarios of anthropogenic climate disruption. And they will shrink in this time frame due to increasing resource scarcity.
Whose Planet? Why We Need Ecocentric Socialism
This book outlines Ecocentric Socialism as a theory of humanity embedded in nature to understand and help solve social and ecological crises of the twenty-first century
The Gross Domestic Problem: what would a new economic measure that values women and climate look like?
The Gross Domestic Problem: what would a new economic measure that values women and climate look like?
Defining “Economic Development” in Statutory Law: Content and Strategy
The only way to arrive at a safe, sustainable, steady state economy is with substantial behavioral and political reform.
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
We know it is empirically possible to achieve a just and sustainable world economy. But our hope can only ever be as strong as our struggle.
Degrowthers Gain Support as Planet Cooks. Can They Ally With Green New Dealers?
A world of radical democracy and equality — of “public luxury and private sufficiency,” with much less hierarchy and much more free time — would enable historic advances in the quality of life for the masses even if some consumer goods disappear from the menu.