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Welcome to the international degrowth web portal. Here, you find information around degrowth. Like answers to the question “What is degrowth?”, news on current projects as well as information about the international Conferences on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. The web portal is further home to the degrowth media library with audio, video and text materials, an international blog, as well as a calendar of events.

The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth

An open letter: More than 200 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP. Foto CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Martin Abegglen

Malmö, Mexico and Brussels

A look back on three international Degrowth-Conferences: Get an impression on our blog.

Summer School 2018

The 4th Degrowth Summer School (29.07 – 02.08) was hosted by the climate camp Leipzig. The programme focussed on visions for a social, ecological and democratic society. Photo: Tim Wagner

New book: Doughnut Economics

Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. By Kate Raworth.
Photo by Ibán (cropped CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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The Easy Way Out of Rebound Effects

Environmental protection is needed because we take useful things out of nature and put useless or harmful things back in. The resulting depletion and pollution have reached harmful, unsustainable levels. – Blake Alcott, senior ecological economist and prominent expert on the rebound effect, finds an easy way out. Read more

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