#degrowth — Public Fediverse posts

The Great Simplification: How Bad Will Oil Shortages Be?
"The last pre-war shipments of oil products from the Strait of Hormuz have arrived at their destinations as of early May, meaning the promise of an energy crisis as a result of the Iran war is fast approaching. Leading experts are now forecasting energy disruptions ranging from rationing to severe shortages in import-dependent economies, with roughly 11% of global oil supply already offline. This leaves us with the question: even if this war were to end today, what sort of system-wide effects are locked in given the current loss in production, and what will be required of us to cope with the fallout?

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system...

#War #Iran #Oil #Energy #Degrowth #Climate #US

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6xm5IuY4w&ra=m

The Great Simplification: How Bad Will Oil Shortages Be?
"The last pre-war shipments of oil products from the Strait of Hormuz have arrived at their destinations as of early May, meaning the promise of an energy crisis as a result of the Iran war is fast approaching. Leading experts are now forecasting energy disruptions ranging from rationing to severe shortages in import-dependent economies, with roughly 11% of global oil supply already offline. This leaves us with the question: even if this war were to end today, what sort of system-wide effects are locked in given the current loss in production, and what will be required of us to cope with the fallout?

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system...

#War #Iran #Oil #Energy #Degrowth #Climate #US

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6xm5IuY4w&ra=m

The Great Simplification: How Bad Will Oil Shortages Be?
"The last pre-war shipments of oil products from the Strait of Hormuz have arrived at their destinations as of early May, meaning the promise of an energy crisis as a result of the Iran war is fast approaching. Leading experts are now forecasting energy disruptions ranging from rationing to severe shortages in import-dependent economies, with roughly 11% of global oil supply already offline. This leaves us with the question: even if this war were to end today, what sort of system-wide effects are locked in given the current loss in production, and what will be required of us to cope with the fallout?

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system...

#War #Iran #Oil #Energy #Degrowth #Climate #US

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6xm5IuY4w&ra=m

The Great Simplification: How Bad Will Oil Shortages Be?
"The last pre-war shipments of oil products from the Strait of Hormuz have arrived at their destinations as of early May, meaning the promise of an energy crisis as a result of the Iran war is fast approaching. Leading experts are now forecasting energy disruptions ranging from rationing to severe shortages in import-dependent economies, with roughly 11% of global oil supply already offline. This leaves us with the question: even if this war were to end today, what sort of system-wide effects are locked in given the current loss in production, and what will be required of us to cope with the fallout?

In this episode, Nate welcomes back petroleum geologist Art Berman to break down the timeline of the looming oil shortages stemming from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and just how severe they could become within a tightly coupled, complex global system...

#War #Iran #Oil #Energy #Degrowth #Climate #US

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6xm5IuY4w&ra=m

@euronews @europe-news-euronews What about visiting your surroundings? #degrowth #tourism #housing :ablobcatwobpatted:

Großartiger neuer Artikel im #Lowtechmagazine über Handkarren. Sie ist ein vergessenes unglaublich vielseitiges Transportmittel. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von mir:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/de/2026/05/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#lowtech #verkehrswende #degrowth

Großartiger neuer Artikel im #Lowtechmagazine über Handkarren. Sie ist ein vergessenes unglaublich vielseitiges Transportmittel. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von mir:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/de/2026/05/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#lowtech #verkehrswende #degrowth

Großartiger neuer Artikel im #Lowtechmagazine über Handkarren. Sie ist ein vergessenes unglaublich vielseitiges Transportmittel. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von mir:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/de/2026/05/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#lowtech #verkehrswende #degrowth

Großartiger neuer Artikel im #Lowtechmagazine über Handkarren. Sie ist ein vergessenes unglaublich vielseitiges Transportmittel. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von mir:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/de/2026/05/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#lowtech #verkehrswende #degrowth

Großartiger neuer Artikel im #Lowtechmagazine über Handkarren. Sie ist ein vergessenes unglaublich vielseitiges Transportmittel. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von mir:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/de/2026/05/rediscovering-the-handcart/
#lowtech #verkehrswende #degrowth

from our network:

👉 AI ABOLITION network & strategy meeting #2
📅 Sunday May 17 at 16:00 - 20:00
📍Ungdommens Demokratihus, Slagtehusgade 10a, Copenhagen
🎟️ free please rsvp, details below

There are many of us who object to the fascist logic of the machine, but we are fragmented and isolated. After a big first gathering last month (we feel already a little less isolated!), we again invite all AI critical and AI abolitionist groups/activists/individuals to our joint networking + strategy meeting in Copenhagen. Newcomers welcome!

Our aims for the meeting: keep building our network; work towards strategic alignment; establish working groups for concrete actions (AI-free zones, workplace organizing, art installations, ...).

Our aims beyond the meeting: conscientiously objecting, rejecting, resisting and dismantling AI. If you are reading this message, you're invited to come!

There will be drinks, snacks, and humans.

https://dukop.dk/en/event/ai-abolition-network-strategy-meeting-2/9949/

RSVP: If it is your first time attending, please sign up here to help us organize the event: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wuk3tQm0I5KOIXQmUG8sV4DM61oLV2oZEq3PLwI7GJM/

& if you have questions about the event, you can contact us at: [email protected]

Co-organized by activists from ITU Palestine Solidary Network, Emancipatory Futures Lab, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion & more

#degrowth #abolition #ai #copenhagen #kobenhavn #workplace #organizing #art #aiFreeZone

I've just been asked how my home battery is doing 8 years later. The answer is: Fine!*
As per the reply I gave on YT:
"Remember, these cells are from a G1 Leaf. The worst of the worst, the Ford Model T. And they still run my house. To all those who say batteries are gonna be a waste problem I say not if you find uses for them and don't insist on brand new."

Try that with your Ranger fuel tank b*tches!

*Slightly more nuanced is that there's been some decline in capacity but I have pathetic data logging on it so I can't quantify it precisely. Not a huge decline though.

Edit: Before anyone says it, I take safety very seriously here. After this video was made I got a proper house for the battery to keep ignorant fingers and cups of coffee out of it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLNzF3EpTQk&lc=Ugy4QHOsNK4-9lcRIQV4AaABAg

#Solarpunk #CircularEconomy #degrowth

The 1% wealthiest people, globally, equals 80 million people. Collectively, they consume 10 times the resources(carbon emissions as a proxy for all resources) of the other 99%.
Correcting inequities in the distribution of food, shelter, health care, education, etc we could offer a decent life to everyone,(including the 1%) but we have to “bell that cat”.
#Degrowth #WealthTax

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1

The 1% wealthiest people, globally, equals 80 million people. Collectively, they consume 10 times the resources(carbon emissions as a proxy for all resources) of the other 99%.
Correcting inequities in the distribution of food, shelter, health care, education, etc we could offer a decent life to everyone,(including the 1%) but we have to “bell that cat”.
#Degrowth #WealthTax

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1

The 1% wealthiest people, globally, equals 80 million people. Collectively, they consume 10 times the resources(carbon emissions as a proxy for all resources) of the other 99%.
Correcting inequities in the distribution of food, shelter, health care, education, etc we could offer a decent life to everyone,(including the 1%) but we have to “bell that cat”.
#Degrowth #WealthTax

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1

The 1% wealthiest people, globally, equals 80 million people. Collectively, they consume 10 times the resources(carbon emissions as a proxy for all resources) of the other 99%.
Correcting inequities in the distribution of food, shelter, health care, education, etc we could offer a decent life to everyone,(including the 1%) but we have to “bell that cat”.
#Degrowth #WealthTax

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1

The Dice Are Always Loaded

Our money is evolving as debt; it represents debt, and at this late date, debt with interest. It has been evolving as debt for 5000 years, and David Graeber explained this evolution in detail.

But evolution does not confer correctness on a definition. Indeed, evolution is a process of trial and error, and the errors are eliminated without mercy.

Money is almost universally regarded as a claim on a nation’s wealth: an idea we share, and this makes sense to us because debt is an idea. Everybody knows what money is.

“It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So” – Josh Billings.

What if money really represents something else?

If a fisherman and a baker meet on a road and exchange 2 fish for 5 loaves, they are not swapping ideas. If the baker had money, not loaves, the fisherman would not go home to chew on a conjecture offered by someone he’d never met. Money as debt correctly abandons barter as an origin story, just as Graeber explains. It also incorrectly eliminates trade without trust, carelessly abandoning the simplest possible exchange of goods.

“Money is a commodity—and it can be anything—that a society agrees to accept in exchange for every other commodity or service within that society. It ultimately represents the work the holder of the money exchanged with that society to get it.”

Ideas are not subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics; work is.

And if money represents work, it must also be subject to those laws.

And it turns out that the Laws are radically anti-capitalistic.

In The Dice Are Always Loaded, I offer a different understanding of money and ownership. This connects money to the laws of the universe and overturns the money tables in the temple of Mammon. War, Inequality, Overconsumption, Environmental devastation, Planned Obsolescence, and Slavery; all the messes our human societies keep making can be found here.  

Most essays about our terrible problems end there and offer no real solutions. After providing the evidence and logic for its definitions, The Dice Are Always Loaded discusses in detail how a functioning human society operates within the laws, from advertising to farming to delivering truthful news to an entire society.

I call the resulting socio-economic system “Mahinism,” because “Mahi” is te Reo Māori for “work.”

To understand better just how disruptive this understanding is, here are the Laws as they apply to money.

First Law: Ownership of anything cannot make money. Conservation of Energy applies.

Second Law: Money cannot be a lasting store of value. Entropy applies.

Consider the business model of a bank: it collects interest on the money it loans to you because it owns the money it lends to you.

Consider the business model of a Landlord, who collects rent without doing work. A society that rejects these things is possible, but it is very different from what we do today.

We are paying people who are not working for their ownership of the things we need to live. As a result, they have massive piles of money with which to purchase Members of Parliament, Senators, Congressmen, Supreme Court Justices, and Presidents. They own our laws, and when that is not sufficient, they buy our news media to ensure we never see the truth.

It needs to stop.

The people in the owning class are not all bad, but “the love of money is the root of all evil” is one of the basic truths of our major religions. The problem is not the people; it is the existence of the massive piles of money and the ease with which they corrupt even the best governments.

The Dice Are Always Loaded draws on many sources, but it was first written by an engineer using only the Laws; that was 15 years ago, and the author cites several previous efforts. It is not the first attempt to correct our error in defining money, but it may be the last chance for human civilization before nature erases our mistake.

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This is, technically, the second edition of “Making Money Real.” It exists because self-help books about money are ignored by people who might be interested in dismantling Capitalism. References on this site may include aspects of the first book. This post, however, becomes the anchor for everything else I do.

The book is to be published through “YourBooks” in New Zealand, and through “Draft2Digital” elsewhere in the world. New Zealand gets color printing. Greyscale images for everyone else. I can’t afford fancy.

The errata pages will change over shortly.

Endlich mal eine klare verständliche Zusammenfassung, welche die Träume vom grünen Wachstum radikal demontiert.

Danke @skaphle

https://social.tchncs.de/@skaphle/116467000677790096

@cark @einfachnurRoland @molosovsky

https://steady.page/de/treibhauspost/posts/4226cdc1-f78b-4526-8854-33b7f45f3a60

#Degrowth #Klimawandel #BIP #Wachstum

Endlich mal eine klare verständliche Zusammenfassung, welche die Träume vom grünen Wachstum radikal demontiert.

Danke @skaphle

https://social.tchncs.de/@skaphle/116467000677790096

@cark @einfachnurRoland @molosovsky

https://steady.page/de/treibhauspost/posts/4226cdc1-f78b-4526-8854-33b7f45f3a60

#Degrowth #Klimawandel #BIP #Wachstum

Endlich mal eine klare verständliche Zusammenfassung, welche die die Träume vom grünen Wachstum radikal demontiert.

Danke @skaphle

https://social.tchncs.de/@skaphle/116467000677790096

@cark @einfachnurRoland @molosovsky

https://steady.page/de/treibhauspost/posts/4226cdc1-f78b-4526-8854-33b7f45f3a60

#Degrowth #Klimawandel #BIP #Wachstum

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

Quina bona feina la de la Cooperativa del Camp de Formentera!

Un exemple de regeneració i resiliència social, territorial i #cooperativa a una illa cada vegada més turistificada.

Ens calen més #cooperatives i més suport públic, i menys a les start ups molonguis.

Juan Antonio Yern Castelló: “Arribarem a fer el primer oli propi a #Formentera”

https://www.jornal.cat/entrevista/39620/cooperativa-formentera

#Degrowth #Coop #Coops #IllesBalears @jornalpuntcat #Agricultura #Turisme

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@retareta/116367122220089451

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@retareta/116367122220089451

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@retareta/116367122220089451

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@retareta/116367122220089451

#OpenSource #FOSS #CommunityTech #OpenHardware #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #AIForGood #TechForGood #Solarpunk #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #AppropriateTechnology #OffGrid #SelfSufficient #Homesteading #Permaculture #RightToRepair #MakerSpace #DIYTech #decentralizedtech

Upcoming #lecture talk at #UVIC.

From #Forests Frayed to Forests Renewed.
April 16, 2026.

Join us April 16, 2026 at the University of Victoria for a thought-provoking talk with keynote speaker Ben Parfitt as he explores, Forests Frayed to Forests Renewed: The Case for Rezoning BC’s Public Lands.

Ben has covered #forestry and natural resource issues in #BritishColumbia since the 1980s both as a journalist and in his previous role as senior public policy analyst with the now-closed Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office. He is currently a reporter with The Tyee where he covers the forestry and oil and gas industries, among others, and their impacts on critical natural resources like water.

In his talk, Ben will explain the consequences of today’s outdated land use policies and outline how rezoning BC’s public lands can set us on a more desirable course by conserving at-risk primary forests, restore lands scarred by industrialization and support jobs in a refocused, value-oriented forest industry.

Whether you’re an activist, policy maker or someone passionate about environmental preservation this is a talk you won’t want to miss.

University of Victoria – [Lecture Theatre HSD A240]
Tickets: $20
https://bcpolicy.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F35215

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #PublicPolicy #BCForestryReform #StopEcocide #NaturalResources #Degrowth #CarbonFootprint #FossilFuels #environmental #climate #PolicyChange #PolicyReform #WeCantDrinkOil #WeCantBreatheGas #StopDeforestation #WeCantEatDeadForests #YYJ #VictoriaBC

Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.

So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."

Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).

Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.

Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.

#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap

edit: this study circle is now at capacity!

👉 Study Circle: Reading Radical Abundance - How To Win a Green Democratic Future
📅 Starting April 8th, every other Wednesday from 18:30 - 20:30 until June 17th
📍ABF Malmö.
🎟️ Free entry, registration required

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Through this system’s pursuit of profits, we have been put on a collision course with social and ecological limits that can no longer be ignored. We need an alternative. We need radical abundance. A world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production.

In this study circle we will read Radical Abundance (2025) by Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell, an eco-socialist book packed with real-life examples of communal planning and resistance, proving a better future is possible. Together we will discuss the examples presented in the book, if they could work in a Swedish context and how they relate to degrowth.

Meeting dates:
8 April, 22 April, 6 May, 20 May, 3 June, 17 June

#studycircle #reading #bookstodon #abundance #degrowth #ecosocialism #skane #malmo

MOVE Utopia 2019: Visionen für eine andere Zukunft! 🌱 Leidenschaftliche Talks und Ideen, wie wir aus dem Wachstumsdiktat aussteigen und eine lebendige Utopie gestalten können. Mutig, offen und gemeinschaftlich — genau das, was wir jetzt brauchen. Schau rein und lass dich inspirieren! #MOVE #Utopie #Zukunft #Degrowth #Gemeinschaft #Emanzipation #German
https://peertube.livingutopia.org/videos/watch/897aabc3-6833-42e6-8ca7-a621591dd40f

RE: https://climatejustice.global/@degrowthmalmo/116137429077221525

Tuesday's screening had an example of grass roots struggle for economic democracy from Italy:

A profitable factory creating bar shafts for Maseratis is shut down by investors, organized workers campaign to socialize and retool the plant. Rather than luxury goods they aim to create photovoltaics and cargo bikes.There is large popular support, but local power brokers are thwarting the model. Economic democracy is anathema to capitalism. Europe seeks to reindustralize by re-armament, the ex-GKN workers propose a different model.

Now the ex-GKN collective are running a fundraising and awareness campaign. Read more about the initiative here:

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/ex-gkn-florence-the-factory-collective-relaunches

https://insorgiamo.org/crowdfunding-2025/

#degrowth #CollettivoFabbricaGKN #Labour #environmentalJustice

@AwetTesfaiesus

Aber: Problematisch ist dann auch das gegeneinander Ausspielen von privaten Bemühungen und Politik/Wirtschafts-Verantwortung. Es bringt schlussendlich nicht viel, wenn Du deinen Fussabdruck unter 1 bringst, aber der grosse Rest der Menschheit in den Metropolen inkl. der Politik/Wirtschaft kümmert's einen Schei*.

Also tu dir nicht unnötigen Zwang an, solange nicht verbindliche Vorschriften oder angepasste Strukturen existieren, die für alle den Fussabdruck vermindern. Sonst bist du am Schluss nur frustriert. Das heisst aber auch nicht, dass du allen Schei* mitmachen musst, nur weil es viele andere auch tun. Sondern sei Vorbild, so weit dir das möglich ist. Du musst deine eigene Balance finden.

Und nicht vergessen: Sich weiterhin mit aller Kraft dafür einsetzen, dass die globalen Strukturen in der gewünschten Richtung sich ändern. Aber das machst du ja glaub schon.

#ZeorGrowth #DeGrowth #BIP #OnePlanet #Nachhaltigkeit

2/2

Thanks, @markhburton for your help with this piece in English that Degrowth-info has just published: https://degrowth.info/en/blog/dual-strategies-and-the-mini-effect
"Dual strategies and the 'Mini effect'"

🐌 Do you guys want to know what the heck is a "Mini effect" and why it is so relevant for Degrowth strategies? Well, you'll have to read the article to find out 😉

#Degrowth #Strategies #MiniEffect #Politics #Elections #PoliticalParties #Anarchism

(Illustration is by the great Augusto Metztli)

👉 Discussion: Let´s talk Swedish Environmental Politics!
📅 20 / 03 - 18:00 - 20:00
📍BackaKåken, Lundavägen 51A, Direktörsvillan, Malmö.
🎟️ Free entry

2026 is an election year in Sweden—nationally, regionally, and locally.

@degrowthmalmo invites you to an evening discussion about Swedish politics as a kick-start to this election year. Together with a representative from Naturskyddsföreningen (the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation), we will talk about Swedish environmental politics from a #degrowth perspective.

During the evening, we will give a short introduction to the Swedish political landscape and environmental politics—both nationally and locally—and discuss what is at stake in this election. We want to create an open conversation with all participants!

This evening is particularly relevant if you are new to Sweden or new to voting in Sweden (Did you know that non-citizen residents can vote in municipal and regional elections?) All Swedish-speaking members are, of course, more than welcome to join and help make the conversation as interesting as possible!

More info: https://degrowth.se/events/2026/3/20/lets-talk-swedish-environmental-politics

#svpol #elections #riksdagsvalet2026 #malmo #skane

Thomas #Piketty just called for #degrowth, but he chickened out before actually using the word so (hilariously) called it "#sobriety".

https://wid.world/document/prosperity-within-limits-planetary-habitability-global-convergence-and-structural-transformation-2026-2100-world-inequality-lab-working-paper-2026-03/

#esg #climate #capitalism #enshittification #foss #commons #earth #EnoughNotMore

Hype for the Future 119H: A Manifesto on Investment

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/hype-for-the-future-119h-a-manifesto-on-investment/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116104732588684374

*Los días 13 y 14 de febrero 2026, 700 personas se dieron cita en la #universidad #UAM para construir las bases de un modelo más allá del crecimiento económico. Dos compañeras de Ecologistas en Acción, Miriam García Torres y Cristina Rivera, nos traen esta crónica en clave #ecofeminista"

#Decrecimiento #degrowth

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116104732588684374

*Los días 13 y 14 de febrero 2026, 700 personas se dieron cita en la #universidad #UAM para construir las bases de un modelo más allá del crecimiento económico. Dos compañeras de Ecologistas en Acción, Miriam García Torres y Cristina Rivera, nos traen esta crónica en clave #ecofeminista"

#Decrecimiento #degrowth

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116104732588684374

*Los días 13 y 14 de febrero 2026, 700 personas se dieron cita en la #universidad #UAM para construir las bases de un modelo más allá del crecimiento económico. Dos compañeras de Ecologistas en Acción, Miriam García Torres y Cristina Rivera, nos traen esta crónica en clave #ecofeminista"

#Decrecimiento #degrowth

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116104732588684374

*Los días 13 y 14 de febrero 2026, 700 personas se dieron cita en la #universidad #UAM para construir las bases de un modelo más allá del crecimiento económico. Dos compañeras de Ecologistas en Acción, Miriam García Torres y Cristina Rivera, nos traen esta crónica en clave #ecofeminista"

#Decrecimiento #degrowth

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ElSaltoDiario/116104732588684374

*Los días 13 y 14 de febrero 2026, 700 personas se dieron cita en la #universidad #UAM para construir las bases de un modelo más allá del crecimiento económico. Dos compañeras de Ecologistas en Acción, Miriam García Torres y Cristina Rivera, nos traen esta crónica en clave #ecofeminista"

#Decrecimiento #degrowth

🌍 Nace un espacio de deliberación democrática con miras a generar una agenda decrecentista.
#Decrecimiento
Foro social #Degrowth en la #universidad Autónoma de Madrid #UAM

@elsaltodiario.com

📹@mar-sala.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/elsaltodiario.com/post/3mesxpl3f2k26

🌍 Nace un espacio de deliberación democrática con miras a generar una agenda decrecentista.
#Decrecimiento
Foro social #Degrowth en la #universidad Autónoma de Madrid #UAM

@elsaltodiario.com

📹@mar-sala.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/elsaltodiario.com/post/3mesxpl3f2k26

🌍 Nace un espacio de deliberación democrática con miras a generar una agenda decrecentista.
#Decrecimiento
Foro social #Degrowth en la #universidad Autónoma de Madrid #UAM

@elsaltodiario.com

📹@mar-sala.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/elsaltodiario.com/post/3mesxpl3f2k26

@energisch_ #degrowth Wir brauchen ein anderes Wirtschaftssystem. Um nicht zu sagen #SmashCapitalism. #SystemChangeNotClimateChange @ennopark