Last week I spoke about Post-Growth economics at a Seattle event for wealth advisors, and Oberlin College for a keynote to the US Society for Ecological Economics. I heard such similar worries and visions. We need more connections between the academic and finance world for economic system change.

I understand the focus on growth (in the short-run) but the lack of any vision of a (long-run) post-growth future (if only to inspire hope for change) still disappoints. Maybe Ed needs a new Ed stone? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

Killing the lungs of the Earth Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline 433,751 hectares (1.1 million acres) of forest, an area more than twice the size of London, were lost in 2025, the highest level in eight years. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/indo...

It is an unfolding crime scene and we know who the perpetrators are. They’re still at it.

Today is full of magics. You don’t need to read about others experiences, you don’t need to capture your own to share. Today, just bathe in it all. Harvest your own omens, revel in whatever blessings the day offers. Refuse to be part of the mediated spectacle. Find your own primal wonder. #Solstice

It’s the middle of winter in Antarctica and rain is falling on glaciers. It’s supposed to be 20 degrees celsius colder - but it isn’t. And this has been going on for a while. Watch this important video:

Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Perfect summing up👌

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

“It views production & trade in terms of immaterial abstractions such as values & prices. To mainstream economists, the very idea of ‘ecologically unequal exchange’ is simply inconceivable.” #degrowth Beyond the Hubristic Illusions of Green Technology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wow!

#Degrowth offers a powerful alternative to capitalism: 25% care economy, 25% reconnection with ecosystems, 25% social and ecological justice, and 25% relocalization and sufficiency. The tragedy is that societies may embrace it only when systemic collapse is no longer a threat, but a reality.

The health, education, and survival of children around the world (including rich countries) is increasingly under threat from climate change. 1/2 of world's children now exposed to at least 3 climate hazards in their lifetime according to UNICEF. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolutely! So glad to see someone say this 👏

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them" Einstein. #Degrowth is built on alternative values and conceptual foundations. Judging it solely through growth-oriented, instrumental models risks missing its core contribution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“We must aim for an economy that supports the quality of life over endless growth. From a social science & reform perspective, we can still learn from Keynes about how to remake the economy in the long run.” From growth to #postgrowth blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide. I wish half the number of people saw their apologies. Solidarity with Kamel.

Why spend 75 billion on SpaceX's IPO when we can see Earth's future every time we look up at Mars? Spend the money on solar, water purification, and regenerative farming. Every time they launch a rocket, it pushes us one step closer. It is much easier to save Earth than to raise a dead planet.

We need to change the rules of the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Thank you @deschuttero.bsky.social and all the scientists who are raising their voices. #postgrowth #beyondgrowth

Starmer is deeply in bed with the technofascists.

Wealth inequality is worse than pre-revolutionary France, homelessness and food insecurity are soaring, civil liberties and human rights are under attack. It certainly is time to fight back and abolish billionaires.

Real Existing Degrowth is the notion that alternatives to capitalism are not merely theoretical visions for the future, but are already being practiced in communities around the world, challenging the assumption that endless economic growth is the only path to prosperity. Ihttps://bit.ly/4uk2pXn

Each June World Localization Day brings people together to celebrate local solutions and strengthen communities. On 16 June, join us, Regeneration Pollination and @localfutures.bsky.social for an online gathering exploring local people-powered economic alternatives. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New CUSP research identifies how to make #postgrowth work globally: financial transfers from North to South + international cooperation. The PADME model shows this prevents debt, inflation & unemployment in the South. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... #Postgrowth #Degrowth #GlobalJustice

Next week I'll give a keynote speech at Oberlin College about collapse resilience, bioregionalism, and the spiritual liberation of embracing limits to growth, at the US Society for Ecological Economics conference, which for the first time has a #degrowth track! sites.google.com/oberlin.edu/...

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I don't see any signs of truth in this second panel 'The economy' is a useful pretext when it aligns with elite interests, but now we know that rapid and transformative climate action is what's best for the economy, all I see is these folk pursuing their own interests

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does. While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't. It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.

This is the result of more than two years of research of 45 direct contributors and in continuation of many international initiatives and a much longer research tradition on inequality and the climate crisis. Find report, website, research papers and more here: globaljusticeproject.wid.world

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

this seems like a sensible plan, though it's curious of the Guardian to distance this vision from 'traditional leftist parties' and 'economic degrowth', when the strategy is grounded in classic leftist policies like wealth taxes and degrowth proposals like shorter working hours

Sy Taffel, author of 'Postgrowth Digital Futures', argues that digital technology should prioritise #Sustainability, community wellbeing and democratic control instead of endless #Capitalist growth. https://ow.ly/OMlE50Z7xcE

This is condescending and, most importantly, completely ignorant of the actual, real and material reasons communities object to data centre developments (primarily: environment and resource concerns, which they genuinely understand very well and can explain with specific, accurate detail)

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Let me tell you about the Magic Money Tree. There is always one for Billionaires and War. There is never one for you or Healthcare.

“As rational beings, we must, in other words, acknowledge that the vulnerability of the environment is our own vulnerability, that we cannot sustain ourselves without maintaining the integrity of the ecological whole.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth thepointmag.com/politics/rad...

“Of course, renewables must grow, but alongside a rapid decline in polluting energy sources… The model of generalised growth does not allow for this. In order for them to replace one another, we need a… #postgrowth economy.” - @giorgoskallis.bsky.social www.renewablematter.eu/en/giorgos-k...

This is real resistance.

🌱The town of Allensworth in Central Valley, California, is incorporating regenerative agriculture principles to build a self-sustainable and self-determined future. 🎥Stay tuned for the upcoming mini-documentary to hear more about Allensworth. Coming soon to our YouTube channel!

Oh no, how unfortunate to see these definitely not planned and closely choreographed events

When #capitalism is treated as an unchangeable law of nature, truly alternative structural critiques —such as anti-capitalism, degrowth, democratic socialism, or anti-imperialism— are sidelined as "fringe" even when they accurately predict global crises like climate collapse or widening wealth gaps.

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

While Blair’s intervention is appalling, it’s entirely consistent with political teaching. Can anyone remember the last time a political figure showed any leadership on the climate crisis? Anyone at all? open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

If you’re struggling in the heat today, don’t forget to thank the oil companies! Not only did they directly cause this, they’ve also spent the last 40+ years bribing governments not to fix it AND gaslighting us all by telling us it's a non-issue