Conventional, technological innovation in a growth-oriented economy is not the solution to the existential problems we face today but rather the cause of them. It accelerates excessive consumption, depletes the natural environment, and leads to a socioecological crisis of which we are yet to understand …

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in December 2022, encourages governments, companies and investors to publish data on their nature-related risks, dependencies and impacts. These disclosures are intended to drive businesses …

The contemporary use of resources in the ‘take-make-waste’ economy accounts for 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, demonstrating unsustainable patterns of consumption and production. Therefore, the status quo of business operations needs to be changed. This study aims to find out how a circular …

For future generations to meet their needs, and to close the global inequality gap, we need to degrow. That is we need to reduce resource and energy consumption to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being (Hickel, 2020a,b). …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

Despite continuous improvement, lifelong learning, and plan-do-check-act cycles, every new day the planet is a little worse off than the day before! In the first 10 months of this year alone, an area the size of the Netherlands has been deforested and twice that area has been added to desert! Technology …

Data, the raw material from which information is derived, is stored, copied, moved and modified more easily than ever. This quantum leap reaches levels outside our imagination. Surrounded by sensors, recommendation systems, invisible algorithms, spreadsheets and blockchains, the ‘difference that makes …

Een lezing door Egbert Dommerholt over de degrowth economy voor de Impact Colleges van Impact Noord. Impact Noord, Hanze Hogeschool, HanzePRO en de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen organiseren gezamenlijk een reeks Impact Colleges. Op 21 september van 16:00 tot 17:30 uur was het eerste Impact College met …

Wie maakt zich druk om ons dagelijks eten? Het agro-foodsysteem zorgt voor goedkoop voedsel in de schappen. Tegenwoordig wordt minder dan tien procent van inkomen aan eten besteedt maar… deze zekerheid is aan het wegvallen. Voedsel wordt in toenemende mate geassocieerd met overgewicht, klimaatverandering, …