Looking forward to this!

Meanwhile

Loved the @boldpolitics.bsky.social episode with @graceblakeley.substack.com! Only comment it's so important not to equate degrowth / postgrowth with recession! DG/PG are non-capitalist economic systems which prioritise equitable wellbeing & ecological outcomes & make them independent from growth.

As usual, the media didn't pay much attention to the Green Party conference. But there is much to be inspired here - wealth taxes, ending privatisation of essential infrastructures and services, pro-migration and diversity, ecological protection ... Polanski fr. 18:40 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZx9...

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Claus Offe ist verstorben. In Erinnerung bleibt mir u.a. seine Begabung, den Kern komplexer Theorien und dicker Bücher in wenigen, leicht verständlichen Sätzen zusammenzufassen, seine die Welt erschließenden Vierfelder-Schemata und sein Gespür für die Paradoxien moderner Gesellschaften.

I'm deeply saddened by the news that Claus Offe has passed away. He had a profound influence on me as my PhD supervisor and I kept learning from him over the years. Thank you for everything and rest in peace!

Here is our new piece in Lancet Planetary Health on the #WellbeingEconomy and public health, thanks to @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social for leading this :-)

It has arrived! First ideas for this project were already exchanged with @brisunipress.bsky.social at ESPAnet 2019 - but now it has become real! As hardcopy, but (thanks to generous funding by @uni-hamburg.de) also open access: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-eco-soci...

There is now a petition against the UK gov's crazy airport expansion plans in case you'd like to sign too :-) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

I delivered the last @jcms-eu.bsky.social annual lecture, a arguing that #Europe needs to enter the #postgrowth era to come to grips with the #social-ecological crisis and its colonial legacy. I also outline a #sustainable #welfare deal for the EU #degrowth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting fiction + climate change project by my former colleague @dabaden.bsky.social! Maybe of interest @aknighton.bsky.social?

Last few days to apply for this amazing job working with me and the rest of the team

I've written a letter to my MP expressing concern about airport expansion plans and the 'growth first' agenda. If you are in the UK and share these concerns feel free to personalise / amend and send to your MP too 🙂 shorturl.at/o08pG

University of Leeds has won 3 ESRC funded collaborative studentships. Working with Leeds Food Partnership, Leeds City Council & New Economics Foundation, this supports our strong commitment to collaborative research with partners in private, public, or 3rd sectors. Deadline: 14/3/25 bit.ly/3Q7Mytt

Funded PhD position on socio-ecological potential of Universal Basic Services at the University of Leeds, please apply / forward to interested candidates 🙏

Highly topical piece on the need to undermine power of elite actors who obstruct much needed social-ecological transformation by @rbaernthaler.bsky.social & Andreas Novy

Interested in post-growth research, sustainability and policymaking? 🧭 Then welcome to MAPS which is now live on mapsresearch.eu MAPS develops new models and policies to deliver high wellbeing for all people within planetary boundaries.

Supporting a 3rd runway at Heathrow and pitting climate change mitigation against growth really is looking backwards Rachel Reeves! A good moment to post the petition for restricting air traffic from Stay Grounded again chng.it/CnPyY7kST7

Just signed this Stay Grounded petition for a frequent flyer levy and other measure to reduce air traffic chng.it/CnPyY7kST7

Apparently a new "one-click" system for booking European train journeys is in the pipeline, that'd indeed be step forward! www.transportenvironment.org/articles/com...

These days I'm thinking a lot about how the left needs to develop new strategies to win voters back. Moving ever further to the "centre" and "right of centre" clearly hasn't worked. If you know of any interesting articles, books, commentaries, etc. on this topic please post, cheers :-)

Usually, people like @mmbuchs.bsky.social, Ian Gough or myself are attacked for being overly critical of #capitalism. This time we were wrongly criticized for not being critical enough. Many thanks to Francesco Laruffa for putting this right! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

From the latest Guardian Weekly, about the Cop summits. Should have been obvious from the start...

Great to see so many activists, artists, actors, scientists & faith leaders call for a #FossilFuelTreaty during #COP29 Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...

If you want to know how to do #intersectional research on #EnergyJustice topics, you should read this fab new paper by Mathilde Rainard. Extremely proud to be a co-author on this first of Mathilde's PhD papers. #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to be at the Wellbeing Economy Wales Festival of Ideas event today in Swansea 🎉😍

In our new paper we show that social disadvantage remains to be an important factor for people's opposition against fuel taxes in Europe, in addition to political trust and climate change attitudes & social disadvantage is especially important in Southern and Eastern Europe doi.org/10.1177/0958...

Because we can have all the science in the world, but if we don't know what to do with it, and how to make the world a better place, why does it matter? That's why you should follow this "Climate Policy, Strategy, and Justice Experts" starter pack, by @katharinehayhoe.com bsky.app/starter-pack...

Progressives urgently need to address the root causes of the rise of right-wing populism and authoritarian governments, especially by building more equal, inclusive and fair societies. Let's keep working together on this.

Apparently, the flat-rate train ticket in Germany (€49/month for limitless travel) has reduced Germany's transport emissions by 5% in the first year. Something resembling universal basic transport services in action :-) www.cleanenergywire.org/news/flat-ra...

New paper by Anne Owen and me which asks whether we are likely to see generational shifts in carbon footprints in the UK. There is some reason for hope as Gen X and Millennials have smaller footprints compared to previous generations at the same life stage onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The BBC has published an interesting and introductory clip on degrowth! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Good to see the mantra of growth challenged in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

European citizens' initiative on taxing the rich, you can sign it here: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

Happy to announce our new paper: emissions are even more unequally distributed over wealth groups compared to income groups in Belgium and the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Many thanks to Gerlinde Verbist, Tim Goedeme and Sarah Kuypers for great collaboration!

As always, very inspiring listing to Kate Raworth discuss 'doughnut economics' on this "Economics for Rebels" podcast. E.g. she talks about importance of choice of language and why the visual elements of the doughnut have been so important in spreading the word podcastaddict.com/economics-fo...

Author copy arrived today 😀

"Is the 4-day workweek the solution we've been looking for?" a new UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab podcast with Juliet Schor, discussing findings from 4DWW trials in several countries. Happy weekend! en.unesco.org/inclusivepol...

Very useful commentry on the need for just transition approaches in green industry processes and policies by Tommaso Grossi and Laura Rayner from the European Policy Institute www.socialeurope.eu/industrial-p...

Chuffed that my research with @mmbuchs.bsky.social on the distributional impact of air travel taxes is covered (alongside other interesting research on climate change) in the 2024 report by @usociety.bsky.social on insights into political identity understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/fin...

Good to see a new special issue out on ecological economics by the Journal of City, Climate Policy and Economy out, with several interesting looking papers on wellbeing economy approaches (and other interesting topics)! jccpe.utpjournals.press/toc/jccpe/2/2

Another week to go to apply for this 4-year PhD opportunity - deadline 29 January :-)

In this Social Europe blog post on the rapidly increasing wealth of billionnaires www.socialeurope.eu/taxing-wealt... I just came across this EU petition for a wealth tax "to finance the ecological and social transition" citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/.... Worth supporting!

Ad alert 😉 Ecotricity (green energy) is now 1 of the 3 energy companies recommended by Which? tinyurl.com/3eye3umr. I've been with them for over a decade. If anyone on here from the UK would like to switch, you can get £50 off your bill, and me too, if I refer you. Let me know if intersted 😊

4-year fully funded (Horizon Europe project) PhD opportunity @ UniLeeds, on the role of reducing inequality for making welfare states more growth-independent. Deadline 29 January, start date 1 June, more info here 👉 www.isecoeco.org/4-year-phd-s... Please apply / forward to interested candidates Tx

This looks like one for my reading list 😀

I recently read & enjoyed Lawhon & McCreary's new book "Enough". A fresh view on how state and markets in post-capitalist, pluralistic economies could sustainably provide for human needs, including by combining UBI and public services www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Yep, agree with Imme Scholz that zero carbon transformation policies and narratives need to integrate much more strongly thinking around equity and justice if we want to get/keep the broader public on board www.socialeurope.eu/the-sustaina...

The UN Human Rights Council invites inputs to its report "Eradicating poverty in a post-growth context: preparing for the next Development Goals" - deadline 15 Jan www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...