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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Test phase #5: can a participatory art action contribute to socially and ecologically just urban development? Read Mia Lehn's recent contribution about the art of unsealing👇
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Art Meets Unsealing
Participatory art can spark ideas that challenge growth-driven thinking and, in doing so, contribute to social and ecological urban development.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seerat Bashir explores a community initiative that tackles plastic waste in Kashmir while providing crucial livelihoods. Check out her video, reporting directly from Kashmir for degrowth.info 👇🏼
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Research & Degrowth International @r-degrowth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A course designed as an entry point into the key ideas, debates and proposals around Degrowth 🐌 🔗See more information here: degrowth.org/projects/deg... 📍October 5th to November 4th - Monday and Wednesday - 16:30-19h (CEST/CET) ⏰️registrations close on September 23rd❗️
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Degrowth Gathering UK is getting closer! This one-day event brings together those interested in working on degrowth in the region. Together we'll consider laying the foundations of a UK degrowth movement, and planning a UK presence at the 2027 International Degrowth Conference.
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Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
You are invited to join a UK gathering to explore how we develop the degrowth vision as a movement for change. Victoria Hall Sheffield. Saturday, October 17 • 9:30 AM - 5 PM
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What place is given to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in degrowth debates, and what might degrowth learn from the region? Check out our most recent blog post by @vincent-liegey.bsky.social at degrowth.info 👇
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Decolonising Degrowth from Central and Eastern Europe
What place is there for Central and Eastern Europe in degrowth, and what might degrowth learn from the region? A reflection on the 2026 Central and Eastern Europe Degrowth Conference
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#EventAlert: Degrowth: Bridging Green and Just Transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Check d.info for more degrowth events👇
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Degrowth: bridging green and just in Central and Eastern Europe
Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We've been quiet here, but the blog hasn't. Have you read Seraat Bashir's latest on the Dar Brothers and their lead in Kashmir's fight against plastic waste? Part of our series with the Himalaya Collective 🐌
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From Trash to Value: The Dar Brothers Take the Lead in Kashmir's Conflict Against Plastic Waste
Seerat Bashir: a community initiative addressing the issue of plastic waste and environmental degradation in Kashmir and providing crucial livelihoods
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Degrowth grew from anarchist soil. So why is anarchism being marginalised within degrowth? Adrien Plomteux digs into the politics of that erasure. New in our ongoing debate strategy👇
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Marginalisation of anarchism in degrowth - why it matters
Anarchism has become marginal in international degrowth spheres, that are increasingly academic. Adrien Plomteux argues that degrowth would benefit from taking anarchist principles and tactics serious...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The EU weakened corporate accountability laws in the name of "competitiveness", which is just growth-speak for letting multinationals keep profiting from exploitation. Check our new piece by Alice Puerto at degrowth.info👇
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Europe Protects Corporations, Not People: Growth Comes Before Justice in Brussels
By weakening the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, EU policies reinforce extractive relationships and sacrifice zones.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🐌 How do people conceptualize degrowth? What are the strategic implications of different theories of social change? And what direct action tactics do degrowth advocates support? Take a look at the research findings for this questions👇
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Exploring the strategic and tactical preferences of the degrowth movement
The strategic diversity within the degrowth movement: different conceptualisations, strategic implications, and direct action tactics.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Is horizontalism a serious political strategy — or naïve prefiguration? Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson & Terry Leahy rejoin the degrowth strategy debate with a case for autonomy, pluriversality and abolishing money 👇
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Horizontalism: A degrowth strategy
Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
You don't need a majority to change politics. Manuel Casal Lodeiro joins the degrowth strategy debate and argues that small, independent degrowth parties could punch far above their weight... if they refuse to dissolve into pro-growth coalitions and play their cards at the right moment 👇
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Dual strategies and the 'Mini effect'
What power can minority parties have in partitocratic political systems? Manuel Casal Lodeiro joins the ongoing strategy debate and argues for the significance of radical degrowthist parties.
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Giorgos Kallis @giorgoskallis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Prefer a more visual explainer? See @degrowthinfo.bsky.social Instagram post summary: www.instagram.com/p/DV_M-QdDWZ...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The #degrowth strategy debate is heating up. Ecological economist Giorgos Kallis has entered the conversation — and he's not holding back. Read his take at degrowth.info👇
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What’s wrong with degrowth? Nothing.
Giorgos Kallis contests recent interventions which lament the current direction of degrowth and its strategies, arguing instead for a community of pluralist yet tense alliances.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Rojava Revolution was built over decades of political work on the ground: women’s councils, ecological assemblies, multilingual education, and co-governance structures that function even under siege. None of that happened by accident. And none of it is being destroyed by accident either.
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The war on Rojava: Imperial strategy and the fight for women, life, freedom
The US, Türkiye, Israel and the EU formalised their alliance against DAANES in January 2026. What they are trying to destroy is not only a revolution - it's the proof that another world is possible
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Contributing to strategy debates on 🐌 degrowth.info, Vlad Bunea outlines a vision for degrowth-aligned political parties. What do you think about Vlad's ideas? Let us know👇
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A political strategy for degrowth
Contributing to strategy debates on degrowth.info, Vlad Bunea outlines a vision for degrowth-aligned political parties.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
📆 You are invited to take part in the upcoming Online Degrowth Movement Assembly, bringing together circles of the International Degrowth Network (IDN) and the wider global degrowth community! For more info, check the link👇
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Online Degrowth Movement Assembly 2026 | International Degrowth Network
The Online Assembly of the Degrowth Movement will take place online on 2-3 March. More information is available below.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Global Tapestry of Alternatives is hosting a discussion on the ongoing conflict in Syria and what is at stake for the Rojava Revolution. Join the conversation on Feb. 5th to hear voices from the ground:
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Kurdistan: A year on, is there progress towards peace and democracy? What are the implications of the ongoing conflict in Syria?
Kurdistan: A year on, is there progress towards peace and democracy? What are the implications of the ongoing conflict in Syria? Date and time * Date: February 5 * Time: 1 pm GMT * Link to join ...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🧵 Do you need more background regarding the Rojava Revolution and the current situation in Syria? Follow this thread with our reading list:👇
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our event page is updated and full of activities. Check them out at: degrowth.info/en/events 🐌📆
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We want to learn about how you use degrowth.info in order to improve its value to the community! We would greatly appreciate you helping us out with this endeavour by completing our short reader survey. The survey is entirely anonymous: forms.zohopublic.com/admindegr1/f...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The mask is off: tech oligarchs are building a new imperial order. We'll need to fight for 2026 and beyond. Read Vasilis Kostakis on alternatives beyond dystopia.
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The CEO-Kings Are Coming
A growing alliance of tech billionaires is accelerating the political trend towards authoritarianism. Not because they hate voting in principle, but because genuine democracy might impose limits: on w...
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Emergency Committee for Rojava @defendrojava.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📢Syrian Kurds are Under Attack❗ 📃Read and share our joint-statement and call-to-action in collaboration with other US-based Kurdish organizations. www.defendrojava.org/news/syrian-...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
As the conflict in #Syria escalates, we stand in solidarity with the Kurds and other minorities in the region. Less than a year ago, we published a piece about the situation on the ground, the future of the #Rojava revolution, and why the issue matters to the #degrowth community.
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Rojava revolution: a degrowth perspective on the current situation in Syria
Democratic Confederalism in North-East Syria is threatened. Resisting centralisation efforts by the new Syrian government and keeping women on the revolution front is the way forward for any prosperou...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hey degrowthers! Help us make degrowth.info even better by taking our quick reader survey. We really want to hear how you use the platform – your feedback will directly inform what we do next. Survey link 👇
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The last day of the year is a good day to take a look at our most engaging conversations in degrowth.info blog! Follow the thread to check out our top 8 conversations from 2025 🧵👇
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The degrowth.info team 🐌 delivered a radical and self-critical year-end reflection on evolving as an independent media platform, on the Movements for Justice series, and especially on the challenge of platforming Global South voices without falling into tokenism. Read our wrap-up of 2025👇
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The invitation is clear: to move beyond meaning-making and into solidarity. The arts are not merely an afterthought in times of crisis. They are the connective tissue that can rekindle imagination, nurture belongings, and mobilise collective action.
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Culture Declares Emergency calls arts and culture professionals to action
The cultural sector has a crucial role to play in both imagining and enacting sustainable futures. In this article Neus Crous Costa explores the interlinkages between culture and the environment, and ...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"As a group and initiative, Khili Buransh is leading a silent revolution against the capital-intensive, extractive, exploitative, patriarchal, casteist system prevailing in their part of society". Check out our new piece in partnership with The Himalaya Collective 👇
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Khili Buransh: A collective’s narrative of crafting a democratic workspace, autonomy, agency, and identity for themselves!
In this article, Shruthi documents the work of an empowering self-help group, Khili Buransh, in a remote Himalayan village in Uttarakhand, India. Shruthi explains how Khili Buransh leads a silent revo...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hickel (@jasonhickel.bsky.social) answers the horizontalists: degrowth needs more than ZADs & assemblies to transform the economy. His response on democratic ecosocialism, delinking & Global South liberation. Read his full text 👇
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On degrowth politics and strategy
Jason Hickel responds to critics of his interview published in the summer, therefore continuing the debate around "what is degrowth" and around the strategies to achieve degrowth.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Problematic as the COP30 may be, we focus on the frontline efforts of our allies as they carry a specific, tangible proposal with the potential to address systemic change: debt cancellation. Read our interview with @debtforclimate.bsky.social 👇
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Debt as colonialism: the Debt for Climate movement at COP30
Debt for Climate went to the COP30 to carry a specific, tangible proposal with the potential to address systemic change: debt cancellation. Considered a degrowth-leaning policy, this proposal refers t...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Our latest blog post proposes five ingredients that #education should include to contribute to societal transformation at the scale that the degrowth community envisions. It is an invitation for readers to reflect on current and future #degrowth education 👇
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Transformative (Un-)Learning: Education for a Degrowth Society
“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain degree of madness.” This article explores five ingredients that education should include to enable a societal transformation at the scale env...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Veganism is, I argue, a natural and necessary component of degrowth, just as #degrowth is a natural and necessary component of socialism": Tom Webb in our latest piece at degrowth.info 👇
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On degrowth and veganism
Degrowth and veganism have plenty in common. In this piece, Tom Webb explores what each movement can learn from the other.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Degrowth infrastructure doesn't wait for permission—it gets built from below. Get to know Berlin's repair hubs transforming empty shops into mutual aid spaces. Open daily, community-funded, preparing for when institutions fail.👇
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Kreisler: Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
Kreisler, a space of community repair and share in Berlin that offers a hands-on response to the crises of overconsumption, social isolation, and infrastructural neglect.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"If we organise, if we delink, if we pair Northern degrowth with Southern sovereignty, we can redirect the planet’s abundant resources away from imperial accumulation and toward collective flourishing" writes Sara al Mahdi in our first blog post in our new series about #delinking.
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Delinking Global South from Global North: Political Strategies for Disrupting the Globalized World Order
Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...
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Research & Degrowth International @r-degrowth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
HIRING! As part of the launch of the new US-based nonprofit, the NAC, they are recruiting their founding EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. Find the full position description at: oficina-degrowth.commonscloud.coop/s/HgPwn9yWyj... Applications may be submitted here: opnform.com/forms/ed-app... #postgrowth #hiring
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"We should shatter the illusion that a single general theory can grasp all the nuances of our complicated present and one all-encompassing project can offer all the solutions".
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Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming t...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Degrowth without anti-imperialism is just lifestyle politics. #Palestine makes this undeniable. Read our colleagues' statement on why this is a #degrowth issue👇
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On Palestine
We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed pe...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
As a response to Hickel's @jasonhickel.bsky.social interview with The Break-Down @the-breakdown.bsky.social, Vincent Liegey @vincent-liegey.bsky.social, Anitra Nelson & Terry Leahy share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context:
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Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel
As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political contex...
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Ana Díaz Vidal @ana-diazvidal.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
An interesting read, though the subtitle says it best. At this point we need to move beyond abstract theorisations of transformations and engage in real strategy-building, for which Olin Wright is not granular enough. @degrowthinfo.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social degrowth.info/en/blog/let-...
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Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation
Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A living recipe for joyful resistance, guided by fungi, fermentation and the courage to not know exactly what will flourish. By Chaga Collective 👇
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How to ferment your own degrowth cabaret
A living recipe by Chaga Collective: for joyful resistance, guided by fungi, ferment, and the courage to not know exactly what will flourish.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As the degrowth.info collective, we fully endorse the statement and urge the wider degrowth community and aligned friends and colleagues to do the same and unite behind its calls to action. Read full statement at our website👇 #freePalestine
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On Palestine
We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed pe...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Have you heard of them? Check this out! #degrowth #oslo2025
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Walking backwards because the world is going in the wrong direction: An interview with performance artists
At the end of the Degrowth Cabaret at the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo, a handful of conference attendees started a backwards walk from Christiania, Oslo, to Christiania, Copenhagen. Degrowth.info...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Behind every Valentine's bouquet: a story of extraction hidden in plain sight. Colombia's flower industry reveals how beauty becomes brutality. But resistance blooms: women-led agroecological networks building food sovereignty beyond endless growth. Read our new article by Valentina Donato👇
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Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance
The industrial production behind flower shops tells a dark story of human exploitation, environmental destructions and health threats. Valentina Donato writes about women organizations in Columbia fig...
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Two of our members went to Oslo for the 2025 International Degrowth Conference and got back with some keen reflections about it. Between experimental cabarets, productive tensions, and debates on delinking, the conference raised urgent questions: how do we build genuinely just postgrowth futures?
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Convivial rants and cabaret: reflecting on the 2025 International Degrowth Conference
Members of the degrowth.info collective offer some reflections on the 2025 International Degrowth Conference
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Why should we engage with our strongest critics rather than simply dismissing them? This piece explores how isolation in "echo chambers" can polarise progressive movements like degrowth. #TBT to an essential article on degrowth and disagreement 🧵👇
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Himalaya Collective collaborates with degrowth.info! Together we aim to forge connections between individuals and groups striving to achieve alternative economic and social systems both locally and globally, and to highlight real-life practices inspirational to the degrowth movement.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A powerful declaration emerged from the Wild Coast of South Africa: 44 people from 20 countries & 34 movements converging to reject the developmentalist projects that have long defined global South "poor and underdeveloped". Read the full declaration👇🌎 #degrowth #GlobalTapestryofAlternatives
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Declaration on Autonomy, Radical Democracy and Self Determination
In support of a fellow movement aligned with degrowth, we are republishing this declaration of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives which was originally released on June 13th.
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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
What happens when beaches stop belonging to everyone? 🏖️ In Uruguay, social movements are fighting coastal gentrification and exclusive real estate projects. Read about this Latin American struggle that teaches us about environmental justice and the right to the city👇 : #degrowth #globalSouth
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The beach in dispute: Social movements in defence of the coastal ecosystem in Uruguay
Uruguay’s coastal ecosystems face numerous threats – water pollution, population density, gentrification, tourism. In this article the authors explore how the social movement Red Unión de la Costa org...
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