The Right to Repair and Other Forms of Peer Creativity
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.
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Towards a Mountain Teaching Pedagogy
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.
Global Tapestry of Alternatives: Weaving Transformation Connections
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) was initiated in mid-2019 as a confluence of movements of radical transformation for collaboration, solidarity, and visioning from local to global levels.
Sand Futures: Post-Growth Alternatives to Excessive Mineral Extraction in the Global South
Digging into sand reveals how current development paradigms work in service to capital — and at the expense of people’s wellbeing.
How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas: Some recent data
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas. I will seek to update this list periodically.
“Episode 100 – The Great Simplification” (Interviewed by Kate Raworth)
On this special 100th episode, Nate is interviewed by his friend and colleague in the metacrisis space, Kate Raworth. The conversation is a reflection on the past two years of podcasting – and how Nate’s worldview has evolved because of it.
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch
If we look closely, there is a dissonance on display. We, the people, are being sold the lie that the values of the wealthy are the same as ours. But what’s on offer does not reflect reality.
Why wage work?
There is so much work that needs to be done, and almost none of it is in an office or a shop. The garden of the world needs to be weeded. This home needs to be cleaned. This body needs nourishing food. And we all need to rest and recover — so we may build new, more durable, more beautiful, more rewarding relationships with the world when the spring returns.
A New Papal Statement Hits—and Misses—the Mark
Pope Francis is inspiring in his willingness to confront hard truths. At the same time, he could go further in diagnosing the full range of causes of the global sustainability challenge.
Why we formed a Degrowth Caucus in the Democratic Socialists of America
Our interpretation of degrowth centers anti-imperialism and internationalism in addition to ecosocialism because degrowth, and global ecological justice, necessitate such a politics.
The Biophysical Tax Man Cometh
In this Frankly, Nate expands on our conventional definition of “taxes” to highlight nine other categories that will ‘tax’ our modern lifestyles.
The Importance of Political Decentralization: Reflections from the Balkans
Everything about the dominant modern form of social organization tends towards centralization. Capitalism and the nation-state tends to take power away from local communities and concentrate it in the hands of narrow elites.
