Kohei Saito, author of “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto,” talks abbreviated workweeks, private jet bans, and what we gain from reducing consumption.
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VIDEO: ‘Decolonize the Future’ with Arturo Escobar
A community conversation with Colombian decolonial scholar/activist Arturo Escobar, produced by Deceleration in partnership with UTSA.
Meet Deceleration: An Online Gathering for Global Degrowth Day
On June 5, come hang with our co-editors and community advisors to learn more about what we do, why we do it, and how we can support collective efforts to create buen vivir para todxs: a good life for all.
Research Roundup: Critical Readings for A Vortex Postmortem
Marisol Cortez Y’all know Deceleration is Texas based, so like millions of others around the state, we just survived brutal Arctic storms followed by a near-collapse of the electric grid—brought about by centuries of secessionist ideology and decades of deregulation—on the heels of water and food shortages. All things considered, […]
‘We Demand a More Care-full World!’ & Other COVID Statements We Like
Marisol Cortez 1. First up: “Reimagining the Future After the Corona Crisis,” a hot-off-the-presses open letter by New Roots for the Economy, written collaboratively by members of the international degrowth network and signed by over 70 organizations and 1,100+ scientists, artists, activists, academics from 66 countries (including a couple of […]
Degrowth: the transformation needed to combat climate breakdown
Previous global ‘efforts’ to tackle climate breakdown have failed dramatically, because they have been based on a fundamentally flawed economic paradigm: growth. Joe Herbert The concept of growth is an altar at which economists, politicians and businesspeople across the political spectrum have worshipped for decades. Unfortunately, where the planet’s long-term […]
Why Despair May Be The Greatest Threat To The Planet
Greg Harman For decades now, researchers, academics, policymakers, and journalists have been talking about the climate crisis and its global impacts. They talk of coal and gas, transportation, and agriculture. They talk of rising seas, stronger storms, vanishing ice, and wildfire. They don’t talk about their grief. We regularly read […]
PODCAST: Pocacito Poco A Poco En San Anto
Click play to listen to podcast above. Marisol Cortez & Greg Harman Pocacito—POst-CArbon CIties of TOmorrow—is an initiative of the Washington D.C.-based Ecologic Institute, whose goal is to build trans-Atlantic solidarity and intellectual exchange around local creative efforts for a renewable economy and planet. As part of their “Eight to […]