Growth

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

What does environmental economist Tim Jackson’s latest book, Post Growth, have to say about breaking the growth chokehold?

A selection mapping some of the major currents that have shaped political ecology in recent years and which continue to do so.

Greta has forced the change up the Czech political agenda. But how the debate will change the country’s path is still uncertain.

This imagined news article describes a Europe where revenues recuperated from tax evasion and avoidance are invested back into wellbeing for the benefit of society and the environment.

An interview with European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on whether the time has come to leave growth behind.

A review of the new edition – revised and expanded – of one of political ecology’s recent classics by Tim Jackson.

Slightly over two months ago, the ‘Brexit’ vote took place, leaving a lot of us in horror, lethargy, or at least confusion. If our confusion has receded as time has gone by, it is because we have become used to this new reality, not because it started making sense.

These days, the degrowth movement is not interested in provocation anymore. Instead it wants to stimulate discussions amongst the people who believe that it is possible to decolonise our minds. Vincent Liegey, the coordinator of the latest Degrowth Conference says that the movement’s impact is already visible in many party programmes

While providing valuable insights about the development of our economic system over time, Thomas Piketty’s work on capital suffers from a critical flaw: like so many economic frameworks, it ignores the limits of the finite resources of our planet – the fact that our ecological capital is rapidly running out. A new unit of measurement which takes this into account is urgently needed.