November 2022 ⋆ Enough!

Open Letter to the First Minister

Enough! has joined with another 115 charities, economists, businesses, trade unions and academics to send an open letter to Scotland’s First Minister calling for an “urgent transition to a Wellbeing Economy.” Read the statement here: 'Redesigning our Economy for People and Planet: Joint Statement on the Wellbeing Economy (weallscotland.org)' and the text of the...

Betwixt and Between: a Conversation with Hanna Tuulikki

Dougie Strang interviews Hanna Tuulikki about her new project Seals’kin, and much more. This interview was published in #4 of LESS a journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. You can pick up a free hard copy from our hubs here.“Neither one thing nor another thing,” sings Hanna Tuulikki, over and over, providing the...

Farmer to Farmer – Transitions to Regenerative Farming in South West Scotland

Nowhere are the ideas of perpetual growth more embedded and more destructive than in our food economy, in which the only metric for ‘success’ is endless growth, export sales, and a ‘productivity’ without recourse to any meaningful sense of quality. The alternative to this is explored here by Diana Garduño Jiménez and Abi Mordin...

On-the-ground activism in Galloway

In their focus on mining in Galloway, Annie Morgan and Nayab Khalid look from the particular to the global to talk of Martin Arboleda’s “planetary mine”. This thread is a recurring one of rooting action in place and time but drawing back to see a wider and deeper picture. For Morgan and Khalid, Arboleda’s...

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