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Research & Degrowth International @r-degrowth.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 4d

Joint paper with A Paulsson, R Raphael & M Islar on the provision of autonomy in #degrowth/#postgrowth circumstances, looking at democracy, work and education. Will talk about education part tomorrow at the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social summit in Berlin
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Autonomy within limits: Post-growth and social imaginaries of work, education and democracy - Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Mine Islar, Riya Raphael, 2025

Autonomy is central to thinking about democracy and human needs, but the question of how autonomy relates to growth is ambivalent. Is growth necessary to achiev...

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · 6d

🌱A pleasure welcoming @profjohnbarry.bsky.social today in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (@frw-rug.bsky.social). Talking about "Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy". Centering critical debate & the public purpose of planning. #CityMatters25 #postgrowthplan

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Judith Nurmann @judithnurmann.bsky.social · 11d

On September 10, the relevant Bundestag-committee held a public hearing on the so-called "Building-Turbo." This was my statement - on behalf of @architects4future.bsky.social

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 12d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Destination Degrowth @destinationdeg1.bsky.social · 12d

www.degrowthpsc.com conference on degrowth and the politics of space: urbanism and space need to come together with #degrowth

About | Degrowth And The Pol

www.degrowthpsc.com

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urbanfutures.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social · 26d

📖The Hot Off The Press book presentation series is back!

Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli & Claire Colomb explore how 12 European cities regulate Airbnb & short-term rentals.

📅 21 October 2025 | 13:15 CEST | Online via Zoom

👉Register now: urban-futures.at/hot-off-the-...

@kazepov.bsky.social

Event poster for the book talk 'Housing Under Platform Capitalism: The contentious regulation of short-term rentals in European cities,' taking place on 21 October 2025 at 13:15 CEST. Poster shows speaker photos, the book cover, and thematic labels 'Economy and Redistribution' and 'Urban Government and Governance'.

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · 28d

🧩 #SystemsThinking is about #connections, causes and the bigger picture.

Why is narrow thinking holding us back and what happens when we look across systems?

Hear from six members of The Club of Rome.

▶️ vist.ly/46xm2

Seeing the bigger picture | Voices on systems thinking (Part 2)

🌍 What if we stopped solving problems in isolation and started seeing the whole picture?In this short video, members of The Club of Rome reflect on how syst...

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 28d

40 years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action. Today, the ozone layer is healing.
—António Guterres, UN Secretary General

On #WorldOzoneDay, let's recommit to preserving the ozone layer for future generations. 🌎

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degrowth.info @degrowthinfo.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · Aug 20

We're delighted to see that Barnthaler & Gough's innovative article 'Provisioning for Sufficiency' has been awarded the Egon-Matzner Award for Socio-Economics 🏆

Read the article for free 👉 spr.ly/63320faZqp

@rbaernthaler.bsky.social #sustainability

Provisioning for sufficiency: envisaging production corridors

This article deepens the framework of a sufficiency economy, defining sufficiency as the space between a floor of meeting needs and a ceiling of ungeneralizable excess. This framework can be applie...

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Earth4All @earth4all.life · Aug 18

Māori have long practiced wellbeing economies rooted in reciprocity and care for land and spirit. What lessons can the global #BeyondGDP movement learn from them?

A new blog by Chellie Spiller explores touchstones of Māori economics that challenge narrow ideas of growth & value ⏩ vist.ly/43phs

Image of Whanganui River with text: GDP cannot measure the warmth of whānau, the dignity of autonomy, or the life force of ancestral rivers. Māori perspectives remind us to honour the immeasurable.

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Post-Growth Planning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social · Aug 6

😎 29 key thinkers around foundations of post-growth planning. 🐌 Listen while travelling, during holidays at home or elsewhere, on the train or bus, or while being active. 🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/7C5zNqS... (also on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Website). #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #podcast

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Podcast · Christian Lamker & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff · Collective for leading common spaces beyond growth. #postgrowthplanning - A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point nor a ...

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Degrowth Collective @degrowth.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Routledge Handbook of Degrowth is now available open-access
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
A must-read!

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interesting handbook on Degrowth here. Open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

e-Reader | Taylor & Francis Group eBooks, Reference Works and Collections

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · Jul 10

Final task for #AESOP2025 in Istanbul is upcoming. Drop by tomorrow, Friday 11 July, for 'To Transport or not to Transport: Post-Growth Propositions for Transport Infrastructure Planning'. 📝See also doi.org/10.1002/jci3... #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ready for it? Join for the open Roundtable 'Transformations to Post-Growth - Positions, Perspectives, and Prospects for People and Planet' upcoming at #AESOP2025 in Istanbul. Moderated by Astrid Kirsch, Lucas Barning & me. Connected to #postgrowthplanning & RSA #ESPPRIT network. #roundtable

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · Jun 18

⚡Inspired by Anitra Nelson: Teaching and Learning #Degrowth. Scale, state vs civil society, collective vs individualistic, spatial planning, inequalities & Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (forthcoming). By @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me at @rug.nl @frw-rug.bsky.social @agricolaschool.bsky.social .

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Jun 13

#RCCNews 📢
We have uploaded a report on the recent degrowth workshop with Anitra Nelson, including some visual impressions of the workshop.

Go over to the "News" section on our website to read it: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

#degrowth #routledgehandbook #editor #workshop

The graphic shows the event previously published event post of our degrowth workshop with Anitra Nelson as news item and with a speech bubble saying "A report on the workshop is now online!"

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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · May 22

“We’ve built an economy that profits from making us sick—and calls it progress.” @timjackson.org.uk joins the Cities 1.5 podcast ‪to unpack how growth-at-all-costs fuels illness, inequality—and war. Full episode via ⏯️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

cc #TheCareEconomy #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #PostGrowth

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Christian Lamker @raumplaner.bsky.social · Jun 5

🪴Invitation! Teaching and Learning Degrowth: A conversation on the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth. Join Anitra Nelson, @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me in Groningen (@agricolaschool.bsky.social @frw-rug.bsky.social) on 17 June, 12.00 hrs (Harmoniegebouw). Open & free. www.rug.nl/rudolf-agric...

Book Launch & Seminar |Teaching and Learning Degrowth: A conversation with Anitra Nelson on the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth

Associate Professor Anitra Nelson(University of Melbourne, Australia)Dr. Ethemcan Turhan & Dr. Christian Lamker (University of Groningen)Anitra Nelson is...

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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · Jun 2

As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform!

Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching

Explore & contribute: ecolecon.eu/esee-curricu...

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · May 17

🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe?

🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!

🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...

🙏 Feedback welcome

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Sofia Rafaella Greaves @sofiagreaves.bsky.social · May 12

Excited to announce my new project exploring artists experiences of affordable housing in London funded by Bow Arts Trust, more here #affordability #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning
www.sofiagreaves.online/bowarts

Sofia Greaves

Researcher and Artist. Resident Bow Arts, Associate LSE Cities, British Academy Knowledge Frontiers: Postgrowth Cities

www.sofiagreaves.online

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · May 9

On this day we celebrate peace, unity and democracy in action. Europe isn't perfect, but look how far we have made it - together.

💙 Happy Europe day!

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