Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignment with ecological limits. However, degrowth in the UK currently exists as an informal network rather than a cohesive movement. This one-day event will bring together those… Continue reading Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement

Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title ‘Manchesterism’.  Much ink has already been spilled in scrutinising it.  Our sister site, Steady State Manchester, carried this article following his speech at the city’s People’s History Museum.  Steady State Manchester has been… Continue reading Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective

Planning has begun for a one-day event bringing together the UK degrowth movement. The aims are to, Build connections among degrowth activists in the UK with a view to strengthening the identity and confidence of UK degrowth networks collectively. Explore the challenges facing degrowth in the UK at this time. Identify and begin to engage… Continue reading A UK Degrowth Gathering – call for organisers

Reposted from Northwest Bylines Mark H Burton With transport through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill, we get a picture of how oil and petrochemicals are part of our life The supply chain problems arising from the unprovoked USA/Israeli attack on Iran are becoming clear. They are multiple, affecting not just oil and… Continue reading The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals

Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth series and also represents an echo of the methodology used in the report which was a major influence on degrowth thinking, the 1974… Continue reading Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?

Jacobo Rivas Sanmartín* In the series, Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture. 1. Disaster, Transition, and the Political Vacuum When the DANA weather system brought heavy rain and catastrophic floods to Valencia, the event was seen as a ‘natural disaster’, something out of the ordinary. That, however, is misleading: such events are not something that… Continue reading From Green Growth to Ecological Ungovernability: Why Degrowth Is No Longer Optional

Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. That we need to extract these polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the sea so we can create electric batteries to run automobiles without using… Continue reading Technology is the enemy of degrowth

Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing? Ted Trainer* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a… Continue reading Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?

Is marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos? Gary Quayle* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture Degrowth scholars and increasing numbers of environmental policy researchers are openly voicing their preference for Degrowth over the more publicised and endorsed Green New Deal or green growth (Cox, 2016). There is a flourishing body of evidence… Continue reading Is branding and marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos??

The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability: Growth, Imperial Extraction, and the Limits of Regulation by Alice Puerto* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture In 2025, the European Union took what may prove to be a historic step backward. Under pressure from a consolidated right–far-right bloc in the European Parliament, led by the… Continue reading The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated… Continue reading In Defence of a Basic Land Income

Degrowth UK plans to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution. 1) Short pieces (up to 2,000 words) summarising the situation with regard to degrowth thinking and practice at a country level (or for large countries at a more regional level). 2) Longer… Continue reading Call for articles: Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture

A policy brief by Research & Degrowth  We share here an executive summary authored by Milena Hanenberg of the new policy brief ‘Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion’, published by Research & Degrowth International and written by Marula Tsakgari. The policy brief provides both a scathing indictment of the current organisation… Continue reading Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion

Post updated 12 Feb to draw attention to an error in the Guardian article and another in the ICIU report. An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears to have a policy of… Continue reading Decoupling …… again

Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these seemingly distinct languages can be bridged, then this session is for you! But don’t worry, you won’t need prior knowledge of economics or the arts!… Continue reading Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)

by Anna Pagani, Hans Volmary, Daniel Fitzpatrick* Providing housing for all is central to building any future. Yet, the system put in place to deliver housing globally has been relentlessly driven by growth imperatives. The consequences are far reaching: unhealthy, unsafe, overcrowded, over- or underheated, and inadequate housing, which is paralleled by the soaring greenhouse… Continue reading Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto

Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption… but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more… Continue reading Degrowth, fears and euphemisms

A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. In the series Prospects for Degrowth by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* Download as pdf    Republished: Resilience.org Versión en castellano (15-15-15) A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, what we might call minima-maxima or degrowth as under-labourer… Continue reading Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?

The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability: Growth, Imperial Extraction, and the Limits of Regulation by Alice Puerto* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture In 2025, the European Union took what may prove to be a historic step backward. Under pressure from a consolidated right–far-right bloc in the European Parliament, led by the… Continue reading The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability