As both 2025 and our series on "movements for social and environmental justice worldwide" come to an end, we reflect on what solidarity across Global South and Global North movements mean in practice.
Announcements • 16.05.2025
By: Constanza Hepp
More than just a politician, the former president of Uruguay, José “Pepe” Mujica, was a source of inspiration and a living embodiment of degrowth principles (even if he didn't use the term): voluntary simplicity, social justice, and ecological responsibility.
Announcements • 28.02.2025
By: The Support Group of the International Degrowth Conferences
The Support Group is currently open to expressions of interest from parties who wish to organize the 2027 edition of the International Conference Series on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity.
Announcements • 24.02.2025
By: The degrowth.info editorial team
Degrowth.info's ongoing blog series!
Announcements • 23.09.2024
By: The degrowth.info editorial team
Degrowth.info is launching a call for blog posts that will constitute a series on movements for social and environmental justice, with a focus on Global South struggles and organising. Do you have a story to contribute?
Announcements • 22.02.2024
Across Europe, politicians, academics and civil society will explore the need for economic system transformation beyond growth at several national-level events. At least five Beyond Growth conferences have so far been confirmed, in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland and Italy – most of them taking place within national Parliaments. These events are a direct consequence of a large three-d...
Announcements • 20.12.2023
By: Joe Herbert
Looking back at the past year in degrowth, as told by our blog
Announcements • 03.10.2023
The 10th International Degrowth Conference and the 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) will be held in the city of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) from 18 – 21 June 2024. This joint conference is part of the “Pontevedra ESEE-Degrowth 2024” activities, which will establish Pontevedra as the European capital of degrowth in 2024. See the presentation video here. T...
Announcements • 19.09.2023
By: Joe Herbert
For every executive, financier and oligarch in London chasing power and obscene wealth, there are multiple times more people seeking to build inclusive, joyful, and sustainable communities. Degrowth London is a new group joining this effort.
Announcements • 29.08.2023
By: Members of the open collective ODN
The Degrowth Movement, which advocates for a radical transformation of society and consumption patterns for the sake of life, well-being and autonomy, met in a hybrid format for the fourth time on August 28th 2023, before the International Degrowth Conference of Zagreb, Croatia. The 4th Assembly comes just months after the Beyond Growth 2023 Conference, which brought together over 1,000 peo...
Announcements • 23.05.2023
By: Degrowth journal
The first publications of the Degrowth Journal are online!
Announcements • 27.03.2023
By: Members of the open collective ODN
To be or not to be... a movement? It is time to choose and put degrowth into practice.
Announcements • 17.02.2023
As degrowth becomes a more familiar term worldwide, a loose informal network of Australian degrowth activists, scholars and advocates has emerged into the formal Degrowth Network Australia (DNA). The network has a public launch in a participatory degrowth workshop at 2pm–4pm on 26 February 2023 — a National Sustainable Living Festival event at the Black Spark Cultural Centre in Northcote, an inner suburb of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).
Announcements • 31.01.2023
By: Members of the open collective ODN
The first International Degrowth Conference held in Paris in 2008 was followed by another ten other conferences, most of which took place in Europe. These conferences provided room for the Degrowth community to meet and exchange on latest research. In Christiania Town (Copenhagen) in 2018, just before the 6th International Degrowth Conference in Malmö, degrowthers met in a new format. Going beyond research-related conversations, they instead discussed the “how” of Degrowth and started to organise the movement.
