#sufficiency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sufficiency, aggregated by home.social.
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Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich Men poor.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #contentment #desires #discontent #discontentment #dissatisfaction #insufficiency #poorness #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wants #wealth #attitude
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The World Sufficiency Lab is hiring:
"We work to advance sufficiency as a foundational principle for achieving human well-being within planetary boundaries and for guiding the metamorphosis of economies, institutions, and territories."
We had a great conversation with one of the ETH Zürich Swiss Sufficiency Lab founders at MES last week.
#GetFediHired #Sufficiency #Academia #Job
https://www.thesufficiencylab.org/news/2026-08-07-job-openings/
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There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financialsecurity #freedom #frugality #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
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Useful commentary from Timothy Parrique on the world inequality lab's global justice project:
'The outcome is colossal and the level of ambition
revolutionary. And this is why I’m writing a response. I want to offer a constructive critique based on my particular expertise (ecological economics and growth-critical theories), pointing to a few areas for improvement... First, I want to challenge their definitions of sufficiency and degrowth, showing that their usage of the terms could be better articulated. Second, I want to show that their “uniform degrowth” scenario is not exactly what it claims to be. And finally, I want to raise several doubts concerning the biophysical viability of the Sustainable Convergence scenario'#degrowth #sustainability #inequality #sufficiency #climatechange
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Nous serons ce vendredi, avec Pauline Picot, au séminaire de préparation des ENMI pour une communication intitulée :
Paysages de la sobriété et techno-diversité des infrastructures numériques
Work in progress de notre travail sur les Data Center. Au menu, un survol de la littérature sur soutenabilité/sobriété et quelques retours de terrain entre hébergeurs alternatifs et mesocentres.
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Just published: 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 🌿 📈
This new discussion paper by CDE and SDSN Switzerland explores the implications of a regenerative economy for business models.💡 It argues that the concept of a regenerative economy can only fulfill its ambitious promise of net-positive environmental impact if #sufficiency strategies are explicitly integrated alongside efficiency-enhancing, renewable, and circular strategies.
Go to publication: https://t.ly/D0nGD
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Eg har begått ei meiningsytring (!). https://agendamagasin.no/debatt/noysemd-er-eit-politisk-sporsmal/
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🌍 The latest CUSP Newsletter is live now. // Co-director @ProfTimJackson reflects on aggressive expansionism, rising militarism, and justice systems that punish protest while shielding atrocities—arguing that what's done in the name of growth, law, and defence is the very opposite of prosperity, justice, and security.
🆕 Plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community.
➡️ https://share.sender.net/campaigns/geG7/bread-and-circuses-cusp-newsletter-june-2026—
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
One cause which is not always observed of the insufficiency of riches is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. To be rich is to have more than is desired, and more than is wanted; to have something which may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which the sudden demands of desire may be gratified, the casual freaks of fancy indulged, the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.
Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-08), The Idler, No. 73More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/84440…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #avarice #desire #excess #greed #money #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #value #wealth #wealthy
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Sufficiency and care: a conversation between @ProfTimJackson, Halliki Kreinin and Jonas Ludwig about organising principles for sustainability research and action in times of geopolitical crises.
→ https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/health/tj-article-sufficiency-and-care/
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cc #TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare #PostGrowth #Degrowth #Sufficiency -
📢💣🔥"Living Within Planetary Boundaries:
Facing Facts, Rethinking Strategies. Building Bridges. A European Sufficiency Conference." 🌍🌏🌎🌿This is the name of the conference I am helping co-organise with a team, in Berlin, on Oct. 6, 2026 - hosted by SRU, UBA and EEAC.
👉 Finally, our preliminary programme is online!
Download here; and register if you're interested in attending. We've already seen huge interest in the first few hours! Will also be streamed.
https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Termine/EN/2024_2028/2026_09_Trafo.html
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Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83836/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #enough #feast #food #hunger #proverb #satiety #satisfaction #sufficiency #surplus
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Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.
[Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack
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DEGROWTH EVENTS FUND 2026 is open now!!
Once again, @IDN is supporting grassroots initiatives that bring people together to explore pathways toward ecosocial justice, care, and futures grounded in #sufficiency and #solidarity.
If you’re dreaming up an event that nurtures the degrowth movement, this is your moment. Apply now!!
More information at this link https://www.degrowth.network/our-work/degrowth-events-fund/guidelines-for-2025-degrowth-events-funding-applications/
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Sometimes excellent poetry appears in the most unlikely of places, something we all should help happen more often. Kristen Darling today posted a lovely and insightful piece on LinkedIn. It begins:
«How to Have the Life You Want
One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace.
I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets
and to keep its hands where I can see them.
I will stop inserting anxiety
where I spent a few moments …»Read the rest here (no account required, do it in an incognito window if LinkedIn's corporateness bugs you):
#poetry #poem #life #philosophy #peace #happiness #contentment #sufficiency #enough #enoughness #anxiety #depression #MentalHealth
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Yayo Herrero talks about a just ecosocial transition, that brings us back in connection with the earth and life itself. She takes a position of hope, that we can start to put ourselves in motion, to change.
It is about #sufficiency: it is both a right, for those who have too little, and an obligation for the rest to reduce our levels of consumption.
Privilege is a responsibility, it (should) convert you into an agent of change. Living in territories that rely on the extraction of wealth from others, have the responsibility to change, to repair. It is also a position of humillity, the root of which is shared with "human" and "humus", the earth.
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MONEY
The Future of Civilization, Consciousness, Technology, and Human Organization.Money isn’t value — it’s a bridge. Beyond hustle and accumulation lies presence, sufficiency, and conscious living.
Link below 👇
#Money #Consciousness #Minimalism #Philosophy #MindfulLiving #Sufficiency
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The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?
I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.
#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor
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Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for MORE.
A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins,
Have never been able to lower the sick man’s fever
Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well
If he plans to enjoy the good things he’s gathered together.
[Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet.
Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto doniini deduxit corpore febres,
on animo curas; valeat possessor oportet,
Si conpertatis rebus bene cogitat uti.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82038/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #avarice #cure #enough #greed #illness #mentalillness #money #more #property #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth
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You don't have to be perfect, but every step you take in the right direction helps:
X, Insta, TicToc -> :fediverse: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_projects
Microsoft -> Install Linux on it
AI -> ask intelligent humans instead, e.g. #AskFedi
Google -> https://noai.duckduckgo.com
GoogleMail -> @Tutanota
iPhone -> jailbreak it, use it until its dead, get a Fairphone with @e_mydata
Amazon video, Disney+, Netflix, Spotify, etc. -> Torrents
Google/Microsoft/Apple calendar -> physical calendar
Zoom -> meet friends IRL, or use @signalapp
Whatsapp -> Signal, or better yet @mollyim
omnivorism -> vegetarianism, veganism, freeganism, flexitarianism, ... (just consume fewer animal products and save food)
car -> public transit, bike, car-sharing
flying -> discover the beauty of your closer surroundings by train
job -> general strike
consumerism -> sufficiency
despair -> collective effectiveness & empowerment#BoycottUSA #UnplugTrump #fediverse #linux #fairphone #torrents #veganism #MobilityTransition #GeneralStrike #sufficiency #empowerment #DIDIt #UnplugMAGA #StopFascism
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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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The second report examines three mutually reinforcing pathways to address the triple crisis: #efficiency, #sufficiency, and #equity.
👉 https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/triple-crisis-systemic-solutions -
Science approves your argument! :ancomheart:
"How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493Spoiler: "Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments."
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Not smoking may cause long healthy lives for yourself and your loved ones.
Bikes, Trains and walking cause health, fresh air and intact nature.
Avoiding AI causes human intelligence and skills, energy transition and planetary health.
Vaccines and masks cause your loved ones not to develop horrible deseases that might otherwise make them choose assisted suicide.
Degrowth, sharing and sufficiency cause the good life for everybody.
Diversity and inclusion cause happiness and resilience.
Empathy and solidarity solve all problems.
Doing as good as you can in regards to the points above makes a huge difference. :flan_heart:
Thank you and please don't judge yourself.#empathy #solidarity #diversity #inclusion #ClimateJustice #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EnergyTransition #MobilityTransition #degrowth #sufficiency
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There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financial security #freedom #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
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Green AI Beyond Bullsh*t
tl;dr: Green AI can only matter if it moves beyond hype—toward truth, transparency, and regeneration within planetary limits.Over the past months, hardly a day has passed without headlines about artificial intelligence: new models, astonishi
https://andrereichel.de/2025/10/07/green-ai-beyond-bullshit/
#ArtificialIntelligence #Energy #Environment #Green #Regeneration #RegenerativeEconomy #Talks #Technology #Digitalization #Regeneration #Sufficiency #Technology -
Wow, quite a cool crowd came out to discuss #sufficiency & ecological democracy in Lüchow yesterday, in Wendland, at the District Council's invitation. After my talk, impressive local actors described their initiatives on shared living, community-supported agriculture, goods and services sharing and bike repair. I learned a lot, got engaged comments. The District is working on a Futures Strategy centered on an economy for the common good, circularity - and sufficiency. 👍 Thanks for inviting me!