Post-growth initiatives live in a teeming eco-system, supporting each other from every angle
Till Lauer from New Yorker
If there’s any of the terms used to put a headline to planet-friendly economics we’d be happiest with, it would be post-growth. Rather than degrowth, post-growth grants some possibility of complexity around the term - ie, we should be growing the right things, than the wrong ones, in the face of planetary limits. It also means we don’t jettison the natural human propensity to grow and develop, which helps with connecting to broader audiences. (See Tim Jackson’s archive on this site).
So we were delighted to see this post from the Post-Growth Institute, which sets out their vision of the eco-system of initiatives that they feel part of and solidarity with.
Groups working to engender cultures of greater reciprocity and care, often at the community level:
Groups working to better understand and enact feelings of greater safety and security, for all:
Groups working to promote purpose-led institutions, policies and ‘technologies’:
Groups working to strengthen frameworks that circulate money, power and resources:
Groups working to deepen anti-oppressive practice throughout the world:
Groups working to reconnect our societies to the stories, symbols and mythologies that nurture our better nature: