Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Post-Growth Institute Staff The African Peace Village is envisioned as a place to host gatherings, workshops, and retreats — where people come to recover their sense of belonging, exchange knowledge on food consciousness, mental health and experiment with new economic and educational paradigms. Once developed, the blueprint could be replicated and adapted to local contexts across the world.
In Ladakh, we learned that localisation looks a million different ways and sings in a thousand different keys, but it always gives back more than it takes and is humble enough to listen.
During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds.
As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a warming world, nonprofits, state-level governments, and independent scientists are rushing to preserve the information. Last week, Climate Central resurrected one of the most prominent of those lost records: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster database.
Wangtak shares the inspiration behind the film, the community-led water conservation efforts in the region, and his dreams for a future where tourism can co-exist with conservation and preservation of the ecology and cultural traditions of Zanskar.
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.
What unfolds today across Ukrainian land is not just warfare; it is environmental devastation that will leave Europe’s biodiversity scarred for generations.
An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace. But that’s not an action any modern politician seems to be able to contemplate, let alone discuss.
As we uncover the colors and complexity of life beyond our planet, may we also remember how incredibly fortunate we are to live in a world that already flourishes with life.
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, Kreisler associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
We need people to be involved, consumers to take a stand. We need a global, cross-sectoral movement for localisation.
While the practice of skateboarding may seem at first glance as completely arbitrary in the fields of existential ecological and social threats, in the example of Skateistan it has already demonstrably provided a foundation for community efforts supporting health, environmental education, and resilience in the midst of the extreme chaos of war, serving as a positive example of progressive social growth within chaotic conditions.
