Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Perhaps what the sustainability movement most needs is not more alternative products and technologies, but simply a confrontation with growth – something much less material. Thus, just talking about degrowth constitutes bold environmental action.
It’s an economy in which the essentials of life – housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care, the means of exchange etc. are owned in common, in communities, rather than by absentee landlords, corporations or the state.
Philanthropy 4.0 is an emerging form of philanthropic activity that focuses on transformative systems change. 4.0 philanthropy aims to address the root causes of a challenge by taking a whole-system perspective.
Either we stop global warming, or global warming stops us. “Sustainable socioeconomic development” is no longer on the menu.
In this podcast, Affiliate Post Growth Fellow, Djémilah Hassani, speaks to Social & Solidarity Economy leaders from French overseas territories — from the Indian Ocean to South America — to explore how these small nations are making an outsize contribution to the development of an an “economy of dignity”, leveraging collaborations, innovations, and existing cultural practices to pioneer pathways towards economic reconciliation.
Inspired by Kate Raworth’s pioneering book Doughnut Economics, Brandsberg-Engelmann instigated a collaborative project to create a comprehensive Regenerative Economics syllabus.
If high-income countries are to decarbonize fast enough to stay within their fair-share of Paris-compliant carbon budgets, then urgent climate mitigation tasks – like building renewable energy capacity, insulating buildings, expanding public transit, innovating and distributing more efficient technologies, regenerating land, etc – need to happen very quickly.
A Christmas Carol is possibly the single most important humanitarian holiday tale of the industrial era. It did not just put the merry in Merry Christmas, it universalized the greeting itself.
A new study shows that economic growth rates make a big difference when it comes to prospects for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, as per the Paris Agreement.
In this final Frankly of 2023, Nate outlines some global themes that are worth keeping an eye on in 2024. From climate change to domestic and global politics to an unstable financial system, world events continue to converge.
Fortunately, the “right to repair” movement has made serious headway in challenging the contrived obstacles to repair, and in winning legal rights for repair commons to exist.
It is the spirit we wish to carry, manifesting a post-growth world we want to live in. In the Mountain School, there is rational knowledge for the mind, opening and nourishment for the hearts, and practical challenges for the hands.
