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1. Neu-Kelte
5 months ago
Coffee pods generate thousands of tonnes of waste in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/...
We need
#degrowth,
a
#DonutEconomy
&
#SystemChange
to
#Conviviality
in a
#CaringEconomy
of
#Partnerism
within
#planetboundaries,
please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich
#MakePollutersPay
#cooltheclimate
#CapitalismKills
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Millions of coffee pods go to landfill. Here's what is being done about it
Between 10 and 20 per cent of the 3 million coffee pods Australians consume daily are actually recycled. Here's what's being done to change that.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-03/qld-australia-coffee-pod-waste-upcycled-schemes-recycling/106149492
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Jason Hickel
6 months ago
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Tom Gillispie
7 months ago
#saving
the
#planet
SAVING THE PLANET
#climate_change
#mushrooms
#renew_the_earth
#clean_energy
#genetically_engineered_trees
#whales
#food_waste
#renewing_the_future
#degrowth
tom-gillispie.blogspot.com/2023/04/savi...
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SAVING THE PLANET
LET'S SAVE THE PLANET How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances ^ How to Save Our Planet ^ Is prosperity without economic growth possibl...
https://tom-gillispie.blogspot.com/2023/04/saving.html
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Research & Degrowth International
8 months ago
Applications for the second edition of the “DEEP DIVES” ONLINE COURSE will open OCTOBER 13th!!🤸🏽♂️ 🌟We will explore “Degrowth Rural Futures: reclaiming the agrarian in the socio-ecological struggle”, taught by Donatella Gasparro. 🕵️More information soon With the support of
@ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social
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Love this measure. It's reasonable.
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8 months ago
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Research & Degrowth International
8 months ago
2️⃣/4️⃣ Proposals for a Green New Deal Beyond Growth 🤝UNIVERSAL JOB GUARANTEE 🔗 Read the full policy brief and executive summary at
degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...
—
#policybrief
#greennewdeal
#jobguarantee
#welbeing
#degrowth
#postgrowth
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Degrowth Collective
8 months ago
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/degrowth-v...
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Degrowth vs. Talk nice and vague about the collapse
Editors note: This article is part of our Thematic Focus “Degrowth, the word”.
https://www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/degrowth-vs-talk-nice-and-vague-about
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Global Health Economics Centre
8 months ago
Don’t forget to join our Anne Mills Health Economics Lecture this Thursday! 📉 Martin Hensher of
@utas.edu.au
will introduce
#EcologicalEconomics
to explore implications for healthcare & what it could mean for health economics in a challenging future of
#degrowth
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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ICTA-UAB
8 months ago
“Somos rehenes de la lógica de producir lo que genera beneficios para los más ricos”, critica el antropólogo del ICTA-UAB Jason Hickel en una jornada de decrecimiento en Congreso de los Diputados en la que participó junto a
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social
. El
@elpais.com
📰
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
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“Somos rehenes de la lógica de producir lo que genera beneficios para los más ricos”, critica el antropólogo británico Jason Hickel
Una jornada sobre decrecimiento reúne en el Congreso a activistas, académicos y algún político en busca de alternativas al modelo económico basado en el aumento del PIB
https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2025-09-26/somos-rehenes-de-la-logica-de-producir-lo-que-genera-beneficios-para-los-mas-ricos-critica-el-antropologo-britanico-jason-hickel.html?ssm=bsky_CC
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ZNetwork.org
8 months ago
Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, gives the GRIP Annual Lecture 2025 at the University of Bergen. In this lecture, he presents his exciting new work on global in...
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The Struggle For Development In The 21st Century: Capitalism, Imperialism And Eco-Socialism
Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, gives the GRIP Annual Lecture 2025 at the University of
https://f.mtr.cool/elwrpqesok
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Research & Degrowth International
8 months ago
💰 Why fighting climate change may require taxing the wealthiest Europeans up to 90%. 1st out of 4 proposals for a Green New Deal Beyond Growth 👉 WEALTH TAXATION FOR A GREEN WELFARE STATE 🔗 Read the full policy brief and executive summary here:
degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...
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#policybrief
#degrowth
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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar
8 months ago
New event! 📆21st Sept 🕘9am Philippine Standard Time Filipinos will protest against government corruption rallying at Luneta, Manila. Many groups inc: Artist alliance for peasants rights, ACT-NCR Union & many more Details:
x.com/ACTNCR_Union...
Guide & background
www.instagram.com/p/DOnQ345ksno
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Michi (aka Gab)
8 months ago
I am at a protest today. I want to say: FUCK THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. Fuck Marcos and Duterte, who also stand guilty for corrupting the country.
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Matt Orsagh
8 months ago
Came across this and thought I would share. Free online event listening to Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth talk about
#degrowth
, donut economics and the care economy. Tomorrow.
www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...
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The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth - The Conduit
Wed 17 Sep, 6pm - 7:30pm Ecological economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth on building a healthier and more humane society.
https://www.theconduit.com/upcoming-events/the-care-economy-tim-jackson-in-conversation-with-kate-raworth/
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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️
8 months ago
Delighted to share that two of my working papers were published by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, as part of critically important and timely Roadmap on Moving Beyond GDP.
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#movingbeyondgdp
#movingbeyondgrowth
#poverty
#equality
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Matt Orsagh
8 months ago
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/have-we-ha...
#degrowth
Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.
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Have We Had Enough of Capitalism?
And why do we only get two choices?
https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/have-we-had-enough-of-capitalism
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Natalie Bennett
8 months ago
My latest Substack email newsletter is out: I'm reading
@timparrique.bsky.social
Call it
#Degrowth
or
#Postgrowth
- either way it is a perspective that urgently needs amplifying
#ClimateEmergency
#PublicHealth
Read it here:
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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ICTA-UAB
9 months ago
⚖️🍃Bringing Justice into Ecosystem Services: Emerging Perspectives and Research
@johanneslangemeyer.bsky.social
, from ICTA-UAB, is one of the editors of a special issue which explores how fairness and diverse knowledge shape the future of ecosystem services research.
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
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Bringing Justice into Ecosystem Services: Emerging Perspectives and Research
Johannes Langemeyer, a researcher at ICTA-UAB, is one of the editors of a special issue of the journal Ecosystem Services titled Equity and...
https://www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-premsa-icta-uab/detall-noticia/bringing-justice-into-ecosystem-services-emerging-perspectives-and-research-1345819915004.html?detid=1345963637587
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NPR
9 months ago
While patients wait to hear back from their doctors about test results, many turn to AI assistants for answers. There are issues with privacy and accuracy.
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Lab results confusing? Some patients use AI to interpret them, for better or worse
While patients wait to hear back from their doctors about test results, many turn to AI assistants for answers. There are issues with privacy and accuracy.
https://n.pr/47xB4cG
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Meredith Whittaker
9 months ago
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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UCL Department of Geography
9 months ago
🎓 BA Geography graduate Florence Brighton wins the EGRG Dissertation Prize for research on postcapitalist communities and degrowth practices. Florence credits
@ucl.ac.uk
Geography for the guidance that made her work possible.
#UCLGeography
#StudentSuccess
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Exploring Postcapitalist Communities: Florence Brighton Wins EGRG Dissertation Prize
Florence Brighton, BA Geography graduate, has won the EGRG Dissertation Prize for her research on postcapitalist and degrowth practices in intentional communities.
https://tinyurl.com/ucl-flo
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Phil Free
9 months ago
“When we start with social & ecological goals, we’re able to see the economy as a means & not an ends, & articulate policies needed to align our systems of production & consumption to ensure the wellbeing of all life, for generations to come.”
#degrowth
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/notes-from...
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Notes from a crumbling empire
How deliberative democracy could save the world
https://www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/notes-from-a-crumbling-empire?utm_medium=web
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Marcos Castro
10 months ago
As long as we remain in a capitalist system designed to generate and accumulate wealth, our real only option is to redefine it. We need a natural carbon capital currency linked to biodiversity and to living forms of capital grounded in carbon fixation.
#BeyondGrowth
#GDP
#Degrowth
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Marcos Castro
9 months ago
Tired of reading academic papers that confuse the philosophy of Degrowth with degrowth as mere decline.
#Degrowth
means rejecting the idea of economic growth as the ultimate goal of economic policy and as an instrument of accumulation under the logic of capital.
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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai
9 months ago
Degrowth
->
The Overpopulation Project
|
More info
from
EcoSearch
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Degrowth
Degrowth is a relatively new word, and although there are different interpretations, one thing seems certain: sustainability cannot be reached without embracing degrowth. by Richard Grossman MD Recently I wrote about 2 words that have negative implications to many people,...
https://overpopulation-project.com/degrowth/
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Phil Free
9 months ago
“This is where I say
#degrowth
is the answer, because a society that uses less, will waste less. But we also need to recycle & reuse more of what we can.” Trash Planet -
@mattorsagh.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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Trash Planet
We may bury ourselves in garbage before the apocalypse arrives.
https://open.substack.com/pub/degrowthistheanswer/p/trash-planet?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Paul Robbins
9 months ago
Whether you're into Degrowth or Abundance, or whatever, you'll agree closing the life cycles of critical materials is a good idea. Innovation is happening here for Lithium.
news.wisc.edu/recycling-li...
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Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process
A group of UW–Madison chemists are hopeful they've found a solution, and they're already filing patents and courting global carmakers.
https://news.wisc.edu/recycling-lithium-from-old-electric-vehicle-batteries-could-be-done-cheaply-with-new-electrochemical-process/
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Paula
9 months ago
Oddly enough I don't like beer! This series looks intriguing to me. I love period pieces and hopefully it includes some historical accuracies that will make it interesting.
youtu.be/2mH396WCN0U?...
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House of Guinness | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
https://youtu.be/2mH396WCN0U?si=JrMRcL47_M9SABnU
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre
9 months ago
How will we use our time in a
#postgrowth
future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by
@seanfearon.bsky.social
et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️
cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf...
cc
#Degrowth
#WellbeingEconomy
#PlanetaryBoundaries
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Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al
In this paper, Seán Fearon et al. use time use analysis combined with emissions and wellbeing data to model 2050 lifestyles in Finland, France, and the UK, ...
https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf-paper-postgrowth-time-use/
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Dani García
about 1 year ago
Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Technology Services “Switching helps you comply with tight privacy rules, retain data inside the EU, and foster independent invention. For cloud storage, payments, AI, Europe has competitive, privacy-first answers”
medium.com/@devlink/top...
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Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Technology Services: You Could Change Right Now
Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Tech Services: Secure, Private, and GDPR-Compliant Solutions
https://medium.com/@devlink/top-20-european-alternatives-to-major-us-technology-services-you-could-change-right-now-1a727cc233f5
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IMBRACE
9 months ago
“Heatwaves are not just a climate issue, they’re a social justice issue.”
@pkotsila.bsky.social
@icta-uab.bsky.social
on how extreme heat deepens inequalities for migrants in cities and agricultural fields, in
@rtvenoticias.rtve.es
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...
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Degrowth Collective
9 months ago
Undoing Capitalism PART 2 Dispossession (Land, Personal Data, Identity)
youtu.be/3jbUjwKcmfw
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Undoing Capitalism PART 2 Dispossession (Land, Personal Data, Identity)
YouTube video by Vlad Bunea
https://youtu.be/3jbUjwKcmfw
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#degrowth
now
add a skeleton here at some point
9 months ago
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Mary Ann
9 months ago
Monthly podcast on "DEGROWTH" from the Climate Hour with Bob Grove:
climategkc.org/degrowth-the...
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Degrowth: The Path From Consumerism To Survival - Climate Council
Degrowth is about finding life’s balance. Producing enough to satisfy your customers’ needs while earning enough to satisfy yours.
https://climategkc.org/degrowth-the-path-from-consumerism-to-survival
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Privacy International
9 months ago
Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity. While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control. Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...
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Why Privacy Matters to People with Disabilities
Privacy is a universal right, but for people with disabilities, it’s often compromised in the very systems designed to support them. Accessing essential services and benefits frequently requires the…
https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/5628/why-privacy-matters-people-disabilities
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EuropeanPowell
9 months ago
Jason Hickel is fantastic, great
@novaramedia.com
interviewed him. The richest countries in the world cannot guarantee food security for their own citizens; something is seriously wrong with the 'economic growth' policies of the centrist right. Degrowth is the answer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...
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Our Addiction To Growth Will Lead To Civilisational COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Jason Hickel
YouTube video by Novara Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlqWHXrTak
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Richard Sedgley
9 months ago
Capitalism "has failed" and "degrowth communism" is the future | Kohei Saito
youtu.be/6nyhSVUUi_Y?...
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Capitalism 'has failed' and 'de-growth communism' is the future | Kohei Saito
YouTube video by Times Radio
https://youtu.be/6nyhSVUUi_Y?si=q2qjepd18egpkSRy
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Richard Sedgley
9 months ago
Kohei Saito on Marx in the Anthropocene - Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
youtu.be/jYAN6wliLxw?...
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Kohei Saito on Marx in the Anthropocene - Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
YouTube video by Deterritoria
https://youtu.be/jYAN6wliLxw?si=3Rr0CeNyHC-G5g3j
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Vitamin D
9 months ago
Good outline of degrowth thinking. The BBC can provide useful information sometimes.
youtu.be/596dU6pDEU8?...
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Could 'degrowth' save the world? | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
https://youtu.be/596dU6pDEU8?si=cBjSDNc0508UmN7T
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Kai Heron
9 months ago
The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-research-councils-2025-8-esrc-bar-against-degrowth-research-branded-anti-scientific/#:~:text=Two%20economists%20have%20criticised%20the,as%20%E2%80%9Canti%2Dscientific%E2%80%9D
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Research & Degrowth International
10 months ago
🏊Want to dive deeper into degrowth? Applications for the first edition of the “DEEP DIVES” ONLINE COURSE are OPEN NOW!!🤸🏽♂️ ⏰Apply by September 5th! 🧑💻 Apply here:
forms.gle/D7aVKQtr7JZx...
—
#degrowth
#course
#online
#policy
#capitalism
#capitalismsucks
#deepdive
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degrowth.info
9 months ago
10+ years building political friendships and amplifying the struggle for a post-growth society. We're an international collective connecting degrowth to radical transformation—practicing the horizontal governance & care-based economics we believe in. Another world is possible. Let's build together!
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Steve Rushton
9 months ago
Degrowth offers so many ways we could imagine a future beyond endless mining and the crises it brings. It's time to broaden out this political debate that will determine the future so we can get off the path towards the billionaires' dystopia.
#criticalminerals
#degrowth
occupy.com/article/crit...
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Critically Rethinking Minerals—and the Cost of Extraction
In the green transition, the IEA predicts lithium usage will rise by 40 times the current amount by 2050, while graphite, nickel and cobalt use will increase 20 times. Can we imagine a different futur...
https://occupy.com/article/critically-rethinking-minerals-and-cost-extraction
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David Soulscorch
9 months ago
Here's a great way to start the day "The Lady Detectives" Five stand alone
#Radio
short plays on BBC Sounds Can't go wrong here my fellow radiohead's 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - The Lady Detectives - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Lady Detectives on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b00crbrs?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Éric Darier
9 months ago
illuminem.com/illuminemvoi...
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An economy that only values what can be sold will never protect what must be saved | illuminem
Capitalism’s structural drive for endless growth prioritizes profit over social needs and environmental protection, making it inherently incapable of delivering a just and sustainable future
https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/an-economy-that-only-values-what-can-be-sold-will-never-protect-what-must-be-saved
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Phil Free
9 months ago
“The challenge for lawyers & policymakers is to identify & utilise these
#degrowth
compatible provisions within the existing system & to critically examine & potentially amend the fundamental principles & structures of EU energy law…”
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) BEYOND GREEN GROWTH: EMBEDDING DEGROWTH IN EU ENERGY
PDF | This lecture explores how the concept of degrowth can inform and transform the European Union's energy law in the context of the escalating... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392021120_BEYOND_GREEN_GROWTH_EMBEDDING_DEGROWTH_IN_EU_ENERGY
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Pattern-chaser
9 months ago
Seen on
#Mastodon
, a message that is *well* worth spreading!
#degrowth
#environment
#economy
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Phil Free
9 months ago
“The warning signs were there: falling yields, thinning forests, eroding hillsides. But the illusion of endless growth proved too tempting to resist.”
#Degrowth
#PostGrowth
Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – & it holds lessons for today
theconversation.com/troys-fall-w...
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Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – and it holds lessons for today
Long before industry, ancient societies were already pushing their ecosystems to the brink
https://theconversation.com/troys-fall-was-partly-due-to-environmental-strain-and-it-holds-lessons-for-today-262465?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Mark Dolore
9 months ago
Reading "Sabbath Economics" by Ched Myers (2023). Great book. So many pastors and Christian leaders have ignored and twisted the economic justice that is SO obvious in the gospels. For my faith: an obvious intersection with
#Degrowth
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