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Exciting news! Our new website is online 🖥️🙌
Check it out to learn who we are and what we do ⬇️
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Big news! We are proud to announce that R&D together with
@jasonhickel
,
@g_kallis
and
@JKSteinberger
receives one of
@ERC_Research
’s Synergy Grants for excellent frontier research. This will enable more research on degrowth and a socio-ecological transformation.
#ERCSyG
#degrowth
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What if social movements are doing more than market mechanisms, and state policies to mitigate climate change?
This article explores their strategies, actors, and contributions to decarbonization. How to estimate the amount of CO2?
Take note
@IPCC_CH
!
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#Degrowth
is a fundamental critic of the growth paradigm and a strong narrative of how a transformation to just, sustainable, and democratic societies can look like.
Let's communicate this narrative with more visualizations to reach a wide audience exceeding the academic bubble!
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The best book we ever wrote on
#degrowth
is now published!
It advances hard thinking about d grassroots & institutional politics that can realize transformations toward degrowth in d current political conjuncture.
Buy it for 8 euro (discount code below):
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What degrowth books are you reading this summer holiday?
#DegrowthHoliday
☀️🏖📙
Let us know in the comments⬇️
The case for degrowth is a short and accessible summary of the main degrowth ideas. If you are new to the field it is a great book to start the journey ✨
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The
#Pluriverse
book has now been published!
It contains over 100 essays on transformative alternatives to dominant processes of globalized development.
Download the PDF for free here:
For buying it at a discounted rate, contact: info
@authorsupfront
.com
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Per capita emissions show: the climate crisis is largely caused by the rich.
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1/4 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: "Alternatives to sustainable development: What can we learn from the
#pluriverse
in practice?"
12 case studies question the anthropocentric universalism of the development project & enact radically different relational ontologies.
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Forthcoming BOOK:
#Pluriverse
!
A stimulating collection of 100 essays on transformative alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.
#postdevelopment
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"The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology" is a must-read for everyone interested in social metabolism, environmental justice and self-reflective science.
Check out the open access book that includes research of nine R&D members:
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Degrowth is intersectional and feminist. Fighting for a good life for all within the planetary boundaries means centering care for humans and the environment. It means abolishing both growth driven capitalism and patriarchy✊
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How does DEGROWTH propose to address the unsustainability of economic growth and environmental crisis?
At
@R_Degrowth
, we have combined this explanatory 2-pager, which proposes solutions to the current multi-dimensional crisis and introduces our role in this challenge.
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We have some BIG NEWS! 🥁 A new Online Master on ‘Degrowth: Ecology, Economics, and Policy'🐌
This is the first international master dedicated fully on research and policy for degrowth!
Check out all the info:
Admissions open July 1st!
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NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on Urbanizing degrowth
A spatial
#degrowth
agenda is urgent!
This special issue argues that coupling of degrowth & critical urban studies agendas is a politically urgent & long overdue scholarly endeavor that will benefit both fields.
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Capitalism tells us to run as fast as possible.
#Degrowth
lets us slow down and convivially enjoy the simple things.
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What is the relationship between anarchism and degrowth? Christos Zografos on questioning hierarchy ⬇️
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To organize the
#degrowth
movement,
@JP__Arellano
put together an overarching database collecting degrowth groups, conferences, educational programmes, publications and media.
We published it on our blog, check it out and feel free to contribute ✨
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While lower and middle classes in rich countries have reduced their emissions, the richest 1% have grown emissions immensely, which makes them responsible for 21% of the per capita emission growth since 1990.
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What is your favourite degrowth podcast?👂🎶 We collected some of the recently published podcast episodes discussing
#degrowth
. Check them out in the thread below 🧵⬇️ and let us know in the comments if you know more degrowth podcasts you would recommend! (1/7)
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Exciting news! We are starting to organize the 2023 Degrowth summer school 🐌
Get to know the organizing team ⬇️
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The
#BeyondGrowth
2023 Conference
@Europarl_EN
has started with an inspiring opening panel on the limits to growth. We are present with a delegation of over 30 degrowthers from Barcelona pushing for the need for a
#degrowth
transformation
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"Degrowth argues that economic growth – the holy grail for governments in most countries – is simply not sustainable and that to stop climate breakdown, we need to reduce consumption."
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Applications for this years Degrowth & Policy summer school are now open!
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The 4th edition of R&D's Master's in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice ended with many successful final projects and an amazing degrowth exhibition. Our R&D team got together to celebrate and to look forward to the exciting new projects to come🎉
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Inscriptions OPEN for our Master in
#PoliticalEcology
,
#Degrowth
&
#EnvironmentalJustice
2020/2021!
This is the first Master of its kind, and one of the first in the world in these flourishing fields.
We offer scholarships covering tuition fee. Join us!
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We are happy to announce that our first crowdfunded
#DegrowthBrief
will be on the topic of Degrowing the Fashion and Apparel Industry! 🥻📉
A thread on the reasons why and on our proposals. 1/8🧵
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Affluence as main driver of unsustainability?
Article in
@nature
by
@JKSteinberger
et al provides evidence that consumption of affluent households is the strongest determinant of env & social impacts
Solutions?
#Degrowth
,
#EcoSocialism
&
#EcoAnarchism
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“Why are activists fighting for climate justice being arrested?”
@Brototi
points out the importance of social movements in the fight for a just transition
#BeyondGrowth
#Degrowth
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Inspirational young degrowthers:
@beth_stratford
@MGSchmelzer
@r_mastini
@brototi
@timparrique
@t_nowshin
@a_vansi
@MarulaTsagkari
@VinczeDegrowth
@joefherb
@ii_sambliss
@Haleeks
@ManuelGrebe
@anaifos87
@annac__b
@ManuelGrebe
@Sara_Fromm_
@JoelForamitti
@AljosaSlamersak
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Great news: Degrowth is slowly making its way into parliamentary politics. We need both this institutional change and grassroots activism to make a difference 🐌✊
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What is degrowth? A critique to growth, a utopian future, a strategy for socio-ecological transformation? 🐌
Our new office team tried to capture the concept. Read their definitions below ⬇️
What is your definition of degrowth? Let us know in the comments✍️
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Join us at the
#BeyondGrowth
Conference:
📍Opening plenary "Limits to Growth" w/
@jasonhickel
📍Plenary 2 "Changing the Goal" w/
@g_kallis
📍Focus panel 4 "Universal Basic Services" w/Giacomo D'Alisa
📍Focus panel 20 "Just Transitions" w/
@Brototi
Roy
➡️
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We are at the 4th International Assembly of the
#Degrowth
Movement in Zagreb, discussing how to organize globally for
#SystemChange
🐌
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On our way to day 2 of the
#BeyondGrowth
Conference at the EU Parliament. If your not in Brussels, follow it online ➡️
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Apply now for our 10th
#Degrowth
Summer School!
Find all information and the application form on 🐌🌱✨
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Save the date ✨
Mark June 2024 in your calendars for the 10th Barcelona Summer School, a Degrowth Bike Caravan to Pontevedra and the 10th International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra 🐌🚴♂️
#DegrowthJune
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It's happening!👏 After the first very successful year, the Online master´s on Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy will be back for a second edition.
Admissions open on April 19th! Spread the word
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The question of limits to the size of the economy imposed by socio-ecological constraints has been present in ecological economics since its foundation. Lyla Mehta, Erik Gómez-Baggethun
@g_kallis
will mobilize biophysical,political ecology & feminist insights to debate about this
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Governments around the world are striving for economic growth, measured by gross domestic product. GDP is used as a proxy for all kinds of desired progress.
@g_kallis
explains that GDP in fact does not measure the well-being or wealth in a country.
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Discussing degrowth with activists from the Global North and South at the first World Congress for Climate Justice in Milan ✊🐌
Degrowth is the way to address climate change and other ecological crises!
#Degrowth
#ClimateJustice
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The 9th International
#Degrowth
Conference in Zagreb is about to start with an opening ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
We are excited for a week full of interesting presentations, discussions and exhibitions.
Stay tuned! 🙌🐌
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Are you interested in a post-doc in Barcelona?
We welcome candidates interested to work on political ecology &/or ecological economics, particularly on degrowth, feminisms &/or environmental justice.
If interested, write to Federico Demaria by 15th January: 1-page project + CV.
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International
#degrowth
conferences:
2020
- Vienna:
@DegrowthVienna
100
#online
academic, activist, and artistic sessions and workshops. Register 4 free here:
2021
- Manchester:
@degrowthUK
- The Hague:
@ontgroei_nl
More details:
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Delighted to finally have met many of the online Degrowth Master students in person in Zagreb! 🤝🐌
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The world inequality report shows: It is the top 1% that is profiting from growth. Since 1995, they captured 38% of global wealth growth.
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"The Girona City Council
@Girona_Cat
will become the first Spanish public administration to explore
#degrowth
, through a laboratory in which municipal officials will participate; researchers from R&D, from the University of Girona; and technicians from Dark Matter Labs."
Decrecer desde los municipios: Girona rompe el tabú con un proyecto político pionero
Por
@ActisAndres
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After 3 amazing days the
#BeyondGrowth
Conference ends with an inspiring closing plenary. We made a strong point for
#Degrowth
in the
@Europarl_EN
!
But the fight for a better future continues: Decolonizing and democratizing the discussion is the way forward ✊
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North America and Europe are responsible for half of the historic GHG emissions. And compared with historic emissions, the remaining budget to meet the Paris targets is small. For
#ClimateJustice
, we need
#Degrowth
in the Global North.
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NEW "Master Degree in Political ecology, Degrowth and Environmental justice" organized by
@ICTA_UAB
& R&D in Barcelona starting in October 2018!
The first of its kind!
Find here the draft program with detailed info about the courses:
More details soon...
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'Treinta años de economia ecológica (1987-2017): Conversaciones con José Manuel Naredo y Joan Martínez-Alier'. 13-S
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🔴 Last chance to apply for our Master in Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy! 🔴
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YES! To combat the climate crisis and social injustice we need to move towards a
#degrowth
economy.
@ERC_Research
's €10M grant will fund the development of a
#PostGrowthDeal
exploring how to radically reduce resource and energy use while ensuring decent lives for all.
Should we rethink our understanding of the economy and move away from dependency on growth?
Georgios Kallis, Jason Hickel, & Julia Steinberger's new
#ERCSYG
project will offer new perspectives on universal human wellbeing.
More 👉
@UABBarcelona
@unil
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#Degrowth
is again prominently discussed:
@aljenglish
talked with
@jasonhickel
and other economists about the obsession with growth. The conclusion: We need to radically rethink our economic systems if we are serious about the climate.
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We are excited to announce that R&D is an official partner of the
#BeyondGrowth
2023 Conference.
R&D will organise the first focus panel “Which Prosperous Future? Confronting Narratives of Growth”.
📅 15 May, 11am-1pm
📍 Brussels or remote
Register here:
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These are some of the degrowth books that you read over summer and recommended on our social media
#DegrowthHoliday
☀️🏖📙
Thanks Julia Isern, Diana Bobis,
@arisatha
,
@pabloony
and everyone else for your contributions.
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Kicking off the 10th Degrowth Summer School!
We're very excited for a week of discussions around Degrowth, neocolonial extractivism and the energy transition✊🐌
Thanks to Àgora Juan Andrés Benítez for hosting the space today💛
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The new book by Giorgos Kallis on
#Degrowth
is out!
"This is a sparkling book. It is both an urgent rallying cry and a measured and accessible introduction to the topic. Anyone who wishes that earth remains habitable should read this book." Gareth Dale
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Interested in studying our online Master's Degree on Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy?
Applications are open until August 15th.
Find all information on
@g_kallis
@SRMcDonagh
@fileoeo
@JP__Arellano
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Our mentor was awarded this prestigious prize (it anticipates the Nobel :-).
We all came to Barcelona to work at his school of ecological economics and political ecology at
@ICTA_UAB
. Merci mestre!
We are together in the struggle for
#EnvironmentalJustice
!
See:
@EnvJustice
Joan Martinez Alier is the 2020 Balzan Prizewinner for Envinonmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and the Humanities
#BalzanPrize
@UABBarcelona
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The book "The case for
#Degrowth
" by
@g_kallis
et al is a best-seller. It has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish & Italian. Forthcoming in French, Slovenian & Greek.
Will it reach translations into over 10 languages like his previous book
#DegrowthVocabulary
?
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On the association between energy and well-being
@JKSteinberger
illustrates that “more is not better” and the pressing need to include demand reduction in our energy systems thinking.
#BeyondGrowth
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We hope to launch a "Master degree in political ecology with a specialization in degrowth and environmental justice" at
@ICTA_UAB
in Barcelona, starting in October 2018. The first of its kind! :)
Working hard on it, shall be able to confirm in a couple of months. Stay tuned!
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Over the weekend, we gathered in rural Catalonia to delve into our theory of change, explore exciting new projects and dream about our visions for a degrowth utopia. 🌏🐌
What an amazing retreat filled with convivial moments and vibrant discussions! ✊
#Degrowth
#SystemChange
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Excited to announce the collaboration of R&D and
@GEF_Europe
🤝🌍 From a degrowth angle, we are going to produce 4 policy briefs on the social dimensions of the European Green New Deal to be presented on the 2023 Zagreb Degrowth conference🧑💼Stay tuned!
@g_kallis
@jasonhickel
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Check out this article⬇️
It prominently discusses degrowth as a potential solution the world's biggest crisis. R&D members
@g_kallis
and
@jasonhickel
were interviewed.
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“Beyond the limits of affluence lies an affluence that only limits can reveal to us” says
@ProfTimJackson
&
“There is no degrowth without decolonisation”
@AnunaDe
Some remarks from an engaging last session at the
#BeyondGrowth
2023 conference. What did you think about it?
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"In our existing economy, production is organized around the interests of capital accumulation rather than around human well-being. The result is a system that overuses resources and yet still fails to meet many basic human needs."
@jasonhickel
@g_kallis
⬇️
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Exciting news! We signed an agreement with Girona's city council to start working on the municipality's socio-ecological transformation together. Looking forward to putting
#degrowth
into practice! 🌱🌍
📝🔝Dijous passat vam signar un conveni pioner des de
@Girona_Cat
amb
@m_condep
de
@R_Degrowth
,
@AlexPopArt
de
@LEQUIA_UdG
@univgirona
i Mike Duff de
@DarkMatter_Labs
.
👀Què és (i què no) això del decreixement i del postcreixement?
🤔Quina relació té amb el conveni?
Resum!🧵
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Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation!
Study proposes adopting limits to trade in resources or reducing & sharing work, & that
@IPBES
considers trajectory beyond growth, e.g. biodiversity scenarios in Convention on Biodiversity.
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📘 Looking for a book on the basic concepts of degrowth?
👉
@kallis
explains the central ideas of degrowth theory and explores what it would take for an economy to transition to a position that enables it to prosper without growth.
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NEW "Master Degree in Political ecology,
#Degrowth
and Environmental justice" organized by
@ICTA_UAB
&
@R_Degrowth
in Barcelona starting in October 2018!
The first of its kind!
Pre-registration open:
Program:
Limited spaces!
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📘 Another book recommendation for you: "Limits" by
@g_kallis
👉 How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits.
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👏We love to see new summer courses like this 👉
"Ecological Economics For All Summer Crash Course 2022: The Shift Needed in Economics to Enable a Just Transition to A Right-Sized Economy"
Online-July 7, 8, 11 & 12, 12-3 p.m. ET
Info & Register for free
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El decrecimiento es una propuesta para el Norte Global, no le pide al Sur Global que decrezca 🌎
#decrecimiento
#decolonial
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Capitalism not only destroys nature, but also our
#MentalHealth
. We need a new economic system centering around care for people🧑🤝🧑 and the planet🌍.
#Degrowth
Don't tell Me to Just Breathe. A moving new short-film animination devised by
@Swarm_Dynamics
(together with
@CUSP_uk
and the
@WEAll_Alliance
); highlighting the links between current
#MentalHealth
crises & our economic system. →
#PostGrowth
#WEall
🧵(1/n)
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The much-anticipated graphic novel "Who is afraid of Degrowth?" by Céline Keller is complete 📖✨Support the crowdfunding campaign now and help bring this thought-provoking project to life: 📷🚀
Hello friends of climate action, social justice, and a livable future for all: the crowdfunding campaign for ⚡️WHO IS AFRAID OF DEGROWTH?⚡️(a graphic novel about the misunderstandings of degrowth) is online! Please check it out and help me spread it:
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Our Degrowth Summer School starts today! We are happy to welcome again in Barcelona, curious people who want to learn more about
#degrowth
and create economies and societies that focus on well-being and community
@DegrowthB
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With R&D we organised the
#BeyondGrowth
Conference's first focus panel, confronting narratives of green growth, post-growth and degrowth. For us it is clear: Only
#degrowth
can effectively fight the socioecological crisis. What do you think?
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Please consider donating to the documentary project "The limits of growth" 🪙📽️
It showcases local degrowth in Catalonia's Berguedà and Ripollès regions, presenting sustainable cooperatives and initiatives🫒
Let's amplify the stories of positive change!
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Register now for d Summer School on Ecological & Feminist Macroeconomics!
It intends to contribute to macroeconomics able to face the challenges of the XXI Century. Particular emphasis on ecological sustainability, gender equality, & their intersections.
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JOB ALERT!📢
We are looking for a Community and Stakeholder Dialogue Coordinator, passionate about
#degrowth
to coordinate an EU support action project (MERGE) and our
#BarcelonaActionCircles
🌱🌏
Read more about the position and apply by Dec 10 ⬇️
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✨Registration for our Master's degrees open✨
Interested in learning about Political Ecology and Degrowth?
🌱Political Ecology. Degrowth and Environmental Justice in Barcelona:
📉Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy online:
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Barcelona city council has declared climate emergency!
They presented a document with 100 measures that looks like a good plan. It seems to have been written by climate justice or degrowth activists. Well, might be it is the case...
Barcelona's
#ClimateEmergeny
declaration: ”The current economic model is based on continuous growth & a permanent race for profit, with increasing consumption of natural resources. This economic system threatens the ecological balance of our planet & has multiplied inequalities."
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Stiglitz: "If our economy seems to be growing but that growth is not sustainable because we are destroying the environment, our statistics should warn us. But because GDP didn't include resource depletion and environmental degradation, we typically get an excessively rosy picture
‘Everything Is Not Fine': Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Calls on Humanity to End Obsession With GDP’
@postgrowth
@CUSP_uk
@KateRaworth
@ProfTimJackson
@R_Degrowth
#postgrowth
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Do you know that you can still apply for our online Master's?
Very few spots left on this second round of applications!
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✨Applications for this year's degrowth summer school open this Friday✨
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Today we start with the basics. "What is degrowth? " Watch our new video and find out more (featuring
@SimonaGetova
,
@MarulaTsagkari
, and Lorenzo Lonardi)
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.
@CaroRackete
is an emblem of degrowth!
She is d captain who rescued immigrants against Italian government orders.
In her book 'The world we want', she calls 4
#degrowth
because:
"Climate apartheid will only lead to more tragedies in the Mediterranean"
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The R&D office team wishes you happy holidays ❄️
We will take some days off to enjoy calm moments with our loved ones, and hope you can too! Thank you again for following, sharing and supporting R&D's work 💛
See you in 2023 ✨
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NEW PAPER: Scientists' warning against the society of waste
Natural and social scientists warn that industrial societies are wasting natural resources, and call for
#degrowth
in the prestigious multidisciplinary environmental journal
@STOTEN_journal
!
!
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What a week!
The 9th R&D Degrowth Summer School is ending today with a panel discussion on Degrowth and the military.
A special thanks to
@GEF_Europe
for supporting the community knowledge events around the Degrowth Briefs.
📸 Robin Roels
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