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 …

Will Degrowth Save the World: Degrowth & Education

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). …

Meet Your Future in Sustainability is a career event where young professionals and sustainable organisations can find each other. Egbert Dommerholt gave a 30-minute workshop titled 'Degrowth & Future Jobs', in which he inspired young job-seekers to shift their focus from satisfying the 'wants' of society …

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 …

Will Degrowth Save the World: Degrowth & Law and Society

Will Degrowth Save the World: Degrowth & Business

Tijdens dit eerste event van de serie Will Degrowth Save the World gaf Jason Hickel een lezing over de basisprincipes van degrowth.