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Applications for the second edition of the “DEEP DIVES” ONLINE COURSE will open OCTOBER 13th!!🤸🏽‍♂️

🌟We will explore “Degrowth Rural Futures: reclaiming the agrarian in the socio-ecological struggle”, taught by Donatella Gasparro.

🕵️More information soon

With the support of @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social.

Love this measure. It's reasonable.

2️⃣/4️⃣ Proposals for a Green New Deal Beyond Growth

🤝UNIVERSAL JOB GUARANTEE

🔗 Read the full policy brief and executive summary at degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...
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#policybrief #greennewdeal #jobguarantee #welbeing #degrowth #postgrowth

Degrowth vs. Talk nice and vague about the collapse Editors note: This article is part of our Thematic Focus “Degrowth, the word”.

www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/degrowth-v...

Don’t forget to join our Anne Mills Health Economics Lecture this Thursday!

📉 Martin Hensher of @utas.edu.au will introduce #EcologicalEconomics to explore implications for healthcare & what it could mean for health economics in a challenging future of #degrowth

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

“Somos rehenes de la lógica de producir lo que genera beneficios para los más ricos”, critica el antropólogo británico Jason Hickel Una jornada sobre decrecimiento reúne en el Congreso a activistas, académicos y algún político en busca de alternativas al modelo económico basado en el aumento del PIB

“Somos rehenes de la lógica de producir lo que genera beneficios para los más ricos”, critica el antropólogo del ICTA-UAB Jason Hickel en una jornada de decrecimiento en Congreso de los Diputados en la que participó junto a @giorgoskallis.bsky.social. El @elpais.com 📰

elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

Jason Hickel, a leading anthropologist and a key theorist of the global de-growth movement, gives the GRIP Annual Lecture 2025 at the University of Bergen. In this lecture, he presents his exciting new work on global in...

💰 Why fighting climate change may require taxing the wealthiest Europeans up to 90%.

1st out of 4 proposals for a Green New Deal Beyond Growth
👉 WEALTH TAXATION FOR A GREEN WELFARE STATE

🔗 Read the full policy brief and executive summary here: degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...
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#policybrief #degrowth

sept 21 9am Kilos Bayan kontra Baha, Kontra korapsyon Luneta park

Konta Kurakot Join us! sept 21 9am Luneta park AAPR

Walanf Kukurap a quick start guide for 1st time protesters tara sa luneta 9am sept 21st 2025

If you've been plugged into the the news lately, you would know that the entire country (Philippines) is in an uproar over the exposition institutional corruption in our governement, specifically in infrastructure and flood control projects The past weeks have been marked by collective & rightesou anger over hte matter but beyond the screen there is now a wide call to show up on the streets on september 21. If you haven't heard of it yet, take this as your invitation. Everyone is welcome here is what to expect a diverse crowd - I have seen invite posters from gangs, churches, hip-hop and punk communities, youth orgs, sectorial & peoples orgs and mass organisations.

New event!
📆21st Sept
🕘9am Philippine Standard Time

Filipinos will protest against government corruption rallying at Luneta, Manila.

Many groups inc: Artist alliance for peasants rights, ACT-NCR Union & many more

Details:
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Guide & background
www.instagram.com/p/DOnQ345ksno

I am at a protest today.

I want to say: FUCK THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. Fuck Marcos and Duterte, who also stand guilty for corrupting the country.

Advertising funded free TV and radio for years but I agree that there should be consciousness and ethics in advertising

The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth - The Conduit Wed 17 Sep, 6pm - 7:30pm Ecological economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth on building a healthier and more humane society.

Came across this and thought I would share. Free online event listening to Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth talk about #degrowth, donut economics and the care economy. Tomorrow.

www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...

Delighted to share that two of my working papers were published by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, as part of critically important and timely Roadmap on Moving Beyond GDP.

#degrowth
#postgrowth
#movingbeyondgdp
#movingbeyondgrowth
#poverty
#equality

Have We Had Enough of Capitalism? And why do we only get two choices?

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/have-we-ha... #degrowth

Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.

My latest Substack email newsletter is out: I'm reading
@timparrique.bsky.social

Call it #Degrowth or #Postgrowth - either way it is a perspective that urgently needs amplifying

#ClimateEmergency #PublicHealth

Read it here: nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

Bringing Justice into Ecosystem Services: Emerging Perspectives and Research Johannes Langemeyer, a researcher at ICTA-UAB, is one of the editors of a special issue of the journal Ecosystem Services titled Equity and...

⚖️🍃Bringing Justice into Ecosystem Services: Emerging Perspectives and Research

@johanneslangemeyer.bsky.social, from ICTA-UAB, is one of the editors of a special issue which explores how fairness and diverse knowledge shape the future of ecosystem services research.

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Lab results confusing? Some patients use AI to interpret them, for better or worse While patients wait to hear back from their doctors about test results, many turn to AI assistants for answers. There are issues with privacy and accuracy.

While patients wait to hear back from their doctors about test results, many turn to AI assistants for answers. There are issues with privacy and accuracy.

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Exploring Postcapitalist Communities: Florence Brighton Wins EGRG Dissertation Prize Florence Brighton, BA Geography graduate, has won the EGRG Dissertation Prize for her research on postcapitalist and degrowth practices in intentional communities.

🎓 BA Geography graduate Florence Brighton wins the EGRG Dissertation Prize for research on postcapitalist communities and degrowth practices.

Florence credits @ucl.ac.uk Geography for the guidance that made her work possible.

#UCLGeography #StudentSuccess

Notes from a crumbling empire How deliberative democracy could save the world

“When we start with social & ecological goals, we’re able to see the economy as a means & not an ends, & articulate policies needed to align our systems of production & consumption to ensure the wellbeing of all life, for generations to come.” #degrowth
www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/notes-from...

As long as we remain in a capitalist system designed to generate and accumulate wealth, our real only option is to redefine it. We need a natural carbon capital currency linked to biodiversity and to living forms of capital grounded in carbon fixation. #BeyondGrowth #GDP #Degrowth

we really have a comprehension problem hahaha. GDP should not be the measure.

Tired of reading academic papers that confuse the philosophy of Degrowth with degrowth as mere decline. #Degrowth means rejecting the idea of economic growth as the ultimate goal of economic policy and as an instrument of accumulation under the logic of capital.

Degrowth Degrowth is a relatively new word, and although there are different interpretations, one thing seems certain: sustainability cannot be reached without embracing degrowth. by Richard Grossman MD Recently I wrote about 2 words that have negative implications to many people,...

Degrowth
->The Overpopulation Project | More info from EcoSearch

Trash Planet We may bury ourselves in garbage before the apocalypse arrives.

“This is where I say #degrowth is the answer, because a society that uses less, will waste less. But we also need to recycle & reuse more of what we can.”

Trash Planet - @mattorsagh.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...

Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process A group of UW–Madison chemists are hopeful they've found a solution, and they're already filing patents and courting global carmakers.

Whether you're into Degrowth or Abundance, or whatever, you'll agree closing the life cycles of critical materials is a good idea. Innovation is happening here for Lithium. news.wisc.edu/recycling-li...

YouTube video by Netflix House of Guinness | Official Trailer | Netflix

Oddly enough I don't like beer! This series looks intriguing to me. I love period pieces and hopefully it includes some historical accuracies that will make it interesting.

youtu.be/2mH396WCN0U?...

Not a reading, but there was a recent BBC documentary about degrowth.

Time Use in a Post-Growth World: Towards Sustainable Wellbeing | Paper by Seán Fearon et al In this paper, Seán Fearon et al. use time use analysis combined with emissions and wellbeing data to model 2050 lifestyles in Finland, France, and the UK, ...

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf...
cc #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries