Degrowth Gains Ground

By Jared Spears, YES! magazine

The Future Is Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.

Class struggle or degrowth?

By Gray Maddrey, Uneven Earth

Knowledge may not be power, but should the future ‘become what it must’, the process of building power will have been one of building knowledge.

The Great Simplification: Steve Keen “Mythonomics”

By Nate Hagens, Steve Keen, The Great Simplification

Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and debt creation, and the disconnect economic theory has to climate change risks.

The Social Economy as a Pathway to Decolonization

By Djémilah Hassani, Post-Growth Institute

My vision is to shift that balance and gain back power by saying: “I am who I am, this is what I know how to do. This is my knowledge from my tradition, and I’m going to own it and free myself from this global market.”

Unnecessary Work

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

So I suspect that soon the lure of fulfillment will eclipse profitability — particularly because we all can meet our own needs, while only a few of us have ever profited from this disaster.

Book review: The future is degrowth

By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog

The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I would describe The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism (June 2022) by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan.

We Are The Economy

By Amanda Janoo, Post-Growth Institute

Once we see that we are the economy, we realize we can change it — and when we change it, we change the world.

Hazel Henderson – rest in the Universe

By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog

Hazel Henderson, wonder woman of green, science-based investing, the love economy, and the golden rule society, went virtual (her term for died) on May 22, 2022, at home, and very much at peace.

The Great Simplification: Vicki Robin, Money and Life’s Energy

By Nate Hagens, Vicki Robin, The Great Simplification

Vicki Robin unpacks how the machine of community begins. How does being vulnerable, sharing, and being obligated to others create a system that allows everyone to contribute?  Why do we need to learn to begin asking for help?

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 81 Helaine Olen

By Vicki Robin, Helaine Olen, Resilience.org

Helaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

A response to Adam Lee: Is degrowth wrong?

By Timothée Parrique, Timothée Parrique blog

I miss critiques of degrowth. A few years back, a single online search for the term would unleash a stream of fury. But no more. In fact, I cannot remember the last time I stumbled upon a well-argued critique. Why degrowth is wrong by Adam Lee is definitely not one of them – not even close...

Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left

By James Meadway, Red Pepper

There is little space for optimism in the world we are entering, but instead an urgent need to respond to its demands with a sober sense of its constrained possibilities. Our aim should not be to build utopia, but to lash together a life raft.