Vote for No One is an Island (9:36). It's awesome! A short film based on super important degrowth research. @jksteinberger.bsky.social @librand.bsky.social myhero.com/2025-peoples...

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded #Canada’s rating to "Highly insufficient". It has weakened policy ambition, implementation is slow; there's a widening gap between current emissions levels and its 2030 target. This despite 2025 seeing second worst wildfire season in history. bit.ly/CAT_CAN

“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍 myhero.com/2025-peoples...

2. Absurdity is a hallmark of authoritarianism. It's not just that those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. It's also that those who endorse atrocities become absurd. This is where Keir Starmer's government now finds itself.

At many academic conferences, students and youth are put in a corner to show their posters. At the ISEE and Degrowth conference, they are given the stage at the opening ceremony in the biggest venue. #ISEE #degrowth

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... globalinequality.org

(This thread is commentary, not criticism!) The "anti-science" label is tricky, because the attacks on science are being framed in the rhetoric of good science: transparency, rigor, objectivity, open debate How can promoting these values be *anti* science? 1/

And I can assure you (because of my time in Leeds) that you'll be learning with some wonderful people!

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

Climate may not be getting much attention but #elxn2025 will have huge implications for Canadian climate policy. @simondonner.bsky.social and I compare climate-related commitments of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP. 🧵 w bonus summary table! #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/21/o...

New article from "REAL - A Post-Growth Deal" project colleagues Joel Millward-Hopkins and Vivien Fisch-Romito : "We have to talk about overconsumption (in three different ways)" 3 definitions relevant to individual, social, and planetary scales. Open access 👇 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Vital column by Nat Dyer on the deep flaws of financial speculator David Ricardo’s trade theory….a necessary rebuttal to the tired old orthodoxy... www.ft.com/content/61f2...

Artículo de interés para toda persona interesada en la búsqueda de una buena vida dentro de los límites planetarios. En The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Carbon offsets rarely work! This systematic review evaluated 1/5th of global carbon offsets (equivalent to a billion tonnes of CO2eq). They found “less than 16% of the carbon credits…constitute real emission reductions”. h/t Forrest Fleischman Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Total global pledges to the Loss and Damage Fund, which goes to support those affected by climate change: $720 million dollars.

One hell of a read on how the US utility Dominion Energy, based in the data centre growth hotspot Virginia, is using high projected growth in data centres to justify new fossil fuel infrastructure -->> archive.ph/V2Hm3 (archive link so ppl outside the US can access)

Short answer: Yes "Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

Here's our Call for Papers on Global Degrowth: (Inter)dependencies, power, and justice - for the journal New Global Studies Please share with interested persons. Edited with Jenny Ufer, Felix Windegger and Brototi Roy www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

I had heard about this place where real people engage constructively. It took me a while, but happy to have made it!

#SanctuaryCities like #Toronto can and must step up via social #planning where national policies fail—defending those caught in between violence, border conflicts and political games for a sanctuary that truly protects. Out this month in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

These days Toronto feels like the anti-model of contemporary urban planning: removing bike lanes, spending billions to rehabilitate a downtown highway, decommissioning an entire subway line, no opening date for a light rail project 13 years in the making. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Amidst Trump’s election and Canada’s surge in anti-immigrant, alt-right politics, Liette Gilbert and I call for a radical rethink: municipalities should protect non-status residents with a generous form of “non-status” citizenship. 1/2 #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....