By Chris Winters, YES! magazine
At its most basic level, doughnut economics is a way of describing an economic system that extends beyond strictly financial measures, like gross domestic product, to include environmental sustainability and healthy, thriving communities.
By Joan Herrera i Torres, Green European Journal
The push to ensure that public interests, the decommodification of fundamental rights, and cooperation prevail demands a new eco-social agenda that aims to be hegemonic. This agenda should focus on three key aspects: biodiversity, the local, and energy transition.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Today I’d like to call attention to a fantastic collection of 29 original essays, The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy, edited by James Gustave Speth and Kathleen Courrier and published by Routledge.
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
We could live in a highly educated, technologically advanced society with zero poverty and zero hunger, all with significantly less resources and energy than we presently use.
By Samuel Miller McDonald, Jason Hickel, The Trouble
At its most distilled, “degrowth” refers to a process of reducing the material impact of the economy on the world’s many imperiled ecologies, abandoning GDP as a measurement of well-being, and forging an equitable steady-state economy.
By Christie Nicoson, Resilience.org
Examples of degrowth provide a starting point for considering concrete steps toward tackling structural violence, fostering climate resilience, and advancing peace.
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.
By Philippe Gauthier, Resilience.org
The idea of a world based on active transport, and on cycling in particular, is a recurring theme in thinking on degrowth.
By Green European Journal Staff, Green European Journal
To truly recover in the years ahead, Europe will need a new socio-ecological contract bringing together questions of inequality, climate and the digital economy.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
The transition into this future will be painful but it will be even more painful unless we radically rethink what is going on and how we all need to respond.
By Jan Juffermans, Share The World's Resources
The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right.
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.