Enough! are committed to commissioning and curating high quality content around our climate reality, alternative ways of economic organising, degrowth and deep adaptation.
Here are some links below to some original content that reflects ideas and conversations we find interesting.
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 the question of how to live well and equitably within...
Re-Membering the Tuath
Forms of traditional ecological knowledge that have been erected since antiquity in Scotland are ripe for re-imagining. Col Gordon explores ways in which a renewed application of these methods can help transition to sustainable, locally-appropriate forms of agriculture in the post fossil-fuel era.“I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about ‘achievements’; diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about...
Other Worlds
Degrowth and Ecology: a Silent PlantingLast night we launched our new issue with the magnificent Stove Network in Dumfries. You can pick up a copy from there, and in the coming weeks across Scotland- check the list of our Hubs here for updates, or order a bundle to help share and distribute by contacting us here.In this issue, we wanted to explore the ecological...
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 Oct 10th-14th.Self-directed study: through a course handbook, online resources and...
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 new direction for society, one in which societies will use...
LESS #4 – Call for Contributions
LESS is a journal on degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Issue 4: the ecology issue.With Glasgow's COP26 fading into history as another milestone in industrial civilisations' failure to reckon seriously with the root causes of climate change, the limitations of our ability to handle diffuse, complex risk becomes clearer. Our national and global institutions, predicated on an anthropocentric worldview and quasi-fanatical adherence to...