DeGrowth Archives ⋆ 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...

Why we need cosmological limits to growth

Dr Katharina Richter on the cultural direction of socio ecological transformations. Illustrations by Deborah Mullen.Degrowth is a big tent, peopled by ecological economists, political ecologists, activists, (eco)feminists, anthropologists, artists, researchers, students, political scientists, sociologists, and many more. Participants in a social movement, degrowthers are often both researchers and activists. They provide compelling answers to...

DE/GROWTH: Human Ecology, Economy, Community

An online collaborative learning programme with a residential learning retreat / field trip to Ullapool, run in partnership by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough! Scotland.The programme consists of A weekly online session: Wednesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Sept 14th - Nov 16th 2022A residential learning retreat and field trip in the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool...

True Prosperity and New Metabolisms

This is an outline of how we might situate degrowth in a history of alternative economics and regenerative movements, in the context of brutal new scientific and socio-economic realities. What does 'true prosperity' look like in times of socio-ecological crisis?"Degrowth means primarily the abolition of economic growth as a social objective. This implies a...

Unlearning Empire – Remembering Earth

Vishwam Heckert explores how we move beyond empire and imperialism, abstraction and disconnection: “...if we wish to transform our world, we cannot do so without unlearning the embodied and psychic habit of separating ‘us’ and ‘them’ or ‘me’ from the ‘world’.”You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your...

Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red Zone

Hello world. Welcome to Glasgow. Welcome to Scotland. We are drawing on Glasgow’s radical past to inject hope and urgency into the moribund COP process.YOUR VISION OF our country may be an idealised one of lochs brimming with salmon and glens filled with deer, but in reality we’re a petro-chemical economy being held ransom...

The Degrowth Sessions: Planting an Economy for All

A series of teach-ins by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough!We invite climate activists and all interested folk to this series of teach-ins which frame economic growth as a key driver of climate breakdown, and explore new models and narratives of degrowth and decolonisation for sustaining livelihoods on a finite planet. The for...

LESS #3 – Call for Contributions

We are currently seeking contributions to our upcoming issue LESS #3: Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red ZoneThe recent IPPC report signals the latest three-alarm warning for humanity and the biosphere. It's a red alert for the 'red zone'- those areas of our planet responsible for the most emissions, which are also now squarely...

Tailor Made Degrowth: How a localised clothing economy can contribute to a degrowth future

by Alis Le MayThis is from #2 of LESS – our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy here.The fashion industry is among the most polluting industries on the planet. It is fraught with ethical atrocities, inherently resource-hungry and, some might claim, entirely unnecessary...

STORY OF STEEL AND THE LETTER M

Poem by Juana Adcock. Illustration: Fadzai Mwakutuya; photo: Ewan BushThis is from #2 of LESS - our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy here.SteelI place my palm en la reja called border wall.Let its steel enter my body: iron alloyed with carbonhardened to...