Capital is tearing at its seams and new insurrectional and revolutionary waves are emerging; it is now that anarchism can find a powerful ally in certain sectors of degrowth

Listen now | Why putting people before profit is crucial in the battle to save our planet. Economic anthropologist, Jason Hickel, is one of the leading degrowth researchers, writers and thinkers leading the charge for ecosocialism. He says if we limit the energy demands of the elite and hungry multi...

The solution to the Great Depression was economic growth, but growth in today's world is largely uneconomic.

The System Itself is the Problem

Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the bare beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the socialist Second International passed a resolution supporting

We stand at a historic moment—a crossroads in the history of humanity and Mother Earth. Rarely has there been a convergence of so many crises, from

Mending the “metabolic rift” of capitalism.

Amid the cost of living crisis and threats to the climate, many are pledging to consume less and spend sustainably

the commons movement: what makes it different? A: it's much more difficult to co-opt than existing models.

Dahr Jamail was working in Alaska’s Denali National Park in the early 2000s when he decided to travel to Iraq to better cover the U.S.-led invasion of the region, on the now debunked basis that Iraq’s president was hiding “weapons of mass destruction.” “I was so aghast at how it was being covered in...

We’re running out of time to make choices

07 February 2024 - Exploring the vision of Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome, this article sheds light on his revolutionary idea of achieving global prosperity through freedom from fear and want, challenging the conventional narratives of doom-mongering and highlighting his true legacy bey...

Seeing degrowth in the here and now gives hope to bring about a radically different future in which to live well and sustainably.

For some years now eco-socialist debate has been locked into orbit around two sharply contrasting perspectives: degrowth and left eco-modernism. The former, represented by Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Stefania Barca, and others, claims that the growth-based paradigm — capital’s endless material and...

“If economic policies have been failing for 30 years, then why don’t we invent a new way of life? The desire for that is suddenly there.” – Kohei Saito

John Mulrow explores the hard truth that to really go green, we’ll need to degrow.

This revolution requires no heroic sacrifices at the barricades. It requires patient plodding at the task of spreading the new ideas and values.

Were we to be liberated from the shackles of petro-capitalism and its productivist whip, we would inevitably dedicate some of our hard-won free time to making more art.

Pre-owned clothing is a surging market with a cool reputation. Yet the economics don't make sense, and most companies are struggling.

Working within the limits of Earth and people, and celebrating the potential of both, they envisage a substantive democracy, direct action by people, with power distributed on the basis of subsidiarity and exercised in ways highly respectful of Earth, the source of human being.

Cooperatives and social enterprises represent an alternative to capitalist profit-seeking in times of ecosocial crisis. Can they escape the infinite growth model?

Though increasingly influential in activist circles and policy discussions, the degrowth perspective on addressing climate change suffers from serious analytical and political flaws. We need a program of green growth to decarbonize the planet.

Excerpts from a Q&A with bestselling degrowth author Kohei Saito.

We need to reform businesses so they adopt environmental protection goals on their own. This means encouraging new legal forms of business: ones that allow the purpose, governance, and role of profit to align with the steady-state goal.