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What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows.
What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows. What Kind of a Green Deal? The implications of material and monetary flows1. Contents Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals. Green Deals, Growth and Material Flows Paying for a Green Deal: monetary flows. Introduction: the resurgence of New Green Deals. With increasing […]
The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future Once is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Yet with the global […]
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown What do Keynesian Democrats think about the movement for post-growth and de-growth economics? Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, DC, has given us some insight into this question. In a recent blog post, republished by Counterpunch, he […]
How do you degrow?
How do you degrow? By We live nextdoor to my partner’s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, “why?”, […]
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer?
Saving the Environment: Is Degrowthing the Answer? Photo Source Anahi Patricia Jasso Aleman | CC BY 2.0 A friend recently sent me a piece by Jason Hickel, arguing that growth can’t be green and that we need to move away from growth oriented economics. I am not convinced. It strikes me both that the piece misrepresents what growth […]
The limits of renewable energy and the case for degrowth
The limits of renewable energy and the case for degrowth Photo from Pixabay The energy transition is the focus of much discussion. To read the accounts in the mainstream media, one gets the impression that renewable energy is being rolled out quickly and is on its way to replacing fossil fuels without much ado, while […]
Degrowth as a concrete utopia
Degrowth as a concrete utopia Economic growth can’t reduce inequalities; it merely postpones confronting exploitation. Español “My Visit to the Mountain Homestead.” Credit: Flickr/Eli Duke. CC BY 2.0. The emergence of interest in degrowth can be traced back to the 1st International Degrowth Conference organized in Paris in 2008. At this conference, degrowth was defined […]
Excerpt From “De-Growth in the Suburbs, A Radical Urban Imaginary.” Part 4
EXCERPT FROM “DE-GROWTH IN THE SUBURBS, A RADICAL URBAN IMAGINARY. “ PART 4 We started publishing 3 weeks ago this series of an excerpt from Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson’s new book, “Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary”. The chapter we will be publishing over 4 weeks (Reimagining the Suburbs Beyond Growth) is the first […]
Giorgos Kallis’ Degrowth | A review by Sarah Hafner
Giorgos Kallis’ Degrowth | A review by Sarah Hafner Rethinking our economic paradigms is an urgent and fundamentally important task. Giorgos Kallis’ new book Degrowth is adding to a joint endeavour of postgrowth thinking, CUSP PhD candidate Sarah Hafner finds. It offers both, a justification as well as a vision and new imaginary for the degrowth […]
Gathering degrowth in the American pluriverse
Gathering degrowth in the American pluriverse “When you told your friends and family you were going to a degrowth gathering, they asked, ‘What is degrowth?’ How did you respond?” The 2018 degrowUS gathering from September 28-30 2018 in Chicago began with this question. The first day’s thirty-odd attendees wrote their responses on sticky notes as […]
An economy that does not grow?
An economy that does not grow? There is now plenty of evidence that economic growth is highly problematic for human welfare and survival. The evidence comes from three domains. 1) The ecological: continual growth uses up the resources that supply and the sinks that take the waste from human activity globally. 2) The social: economic […]
Here’s a Simple Solution to the Growth/De-Growth Debate
HERE’S A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THE GROWTH/DE-GROWTH DEBATE A number of high-profile economists – people like Carlota Perez and Michael Liebreich – have recently come out swinging in favor of “green growth” theory, trying to assuage mounting public concerns about the fact that climate change and ecological breakdown are being driven by capitalist growth. What’s […]
Degrowth: A Call For Radical Abundance
DEGROWTH: A CALL FOR RADICAL ABUNDANCE When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset. Nothing could be further from the truth. I reject the fetishization of […]
Durable Goods
Durable Goods Ed. note: The post below is a transcription of Post Carbon Fellow Stephanie Mills’ remarks at the 50 year anniversary of the publication of the Whole Earth Catalog. Gratitude to Mother Earth, ground of being. Gratitude to Stewart and Ryan and their colleagues for realizing this event. Gratitude to Stephanie Feldstein for her […]
Excerpt From “De-growth in the Suburbs, A Radical Urban Imaginary.”
EXCERPT FROM “DE-GROWTH IN THE SUBURBS, A RADICAL URBAN IMAGINARY.” Over the next 4 weeks we will be sharing with you excerpt from Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson’s new book, “Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary”. This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face […]
