The Joust and The Potlatch as Social Alternatives
The Joust, founded on substitution and economic conflict of interest, stresses material gain. The Potlatch thrives on nonphysical values, seeking complementarities in learning and social designs.
building resilient economies
Three Cities Switching To Life-Affirming Economies
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.
Capital Versus Biosphere: An Eco-social Agenda Fit for the Times
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.
‘The New Systems Reader’: Strategies for System-Change
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.
Is the world poor, or unjust?
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.
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way
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.
Degrowing for peace? Tackling structural violence and climate resilience
Examples of degrowth provide a starting point for considering concrete steps toward tackling structural violence, fostering climate resilience, and advancing peace.
The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia
The CUP programme advocates an Ecosocial Transition based on a degrowth of the economy in terms of energy and materials.
Material challenges of bicycle manufacturing in a post-growth world
The idea of a world based on active transport, and on cycling in particular, is a recurring theme in thinking on degrowth.
A Socio-Ecological Contract for a Post-Pandemic Europe
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.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Five
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.
‘Footprint Justice’ and ‘Fair Earth Shares’ is getting more attention
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.