This month has been all about content here at the PGI. — At the Post Growth Institute, we collaboratively develop ideas, programs, events, and alliances that promote the equitable circulation of money, power, and natural resources in our local communities and global economy. Each month we publish an overview of our key activities and impact through the various pillars of our work. A content bonanza

Un diálogo entre educadores de los Andes y los Himalayas. — Por los becarios Post Growth, Andrea González Andino y Xinlin Song Las montañas son las columnas vertebrales de la Tierra. Han participado en la formación del planeta durante eones y han sido testigos de cambios climáticos permanentes y de cinco extinciones masivas. Las montañas albergan vida y mantienen un estado…

A dialogue between educators from the Andes and the Himalayas. — By Post Growth Fellows, Andrea González Andino and Xinlin Song Spanish version / versión en español Mountains are the backbones of the Earth. They have participated in the formation of the planet for eons and stood witness to permanent climate change and five mass extinctions. Mountains host life and maintain…

When trying to create a “better world”, it’s necessary to look critically at the ways oppressive systems, in particular white supremacy, are enmeshed with the things that get designed and built. — An interview with Post Growth Fellow, Pierce Gordon, Ph.D. At the State of Black Design Conference in 2021, Pierce shared his ideas about how an educational environment can bear witness to its deep and complicated relationship with oppressive systems, including white supremacy, and start to build a space made specifically…

Re-politicizing growth criticism in three not-so-easy steps. — By Post Growth Fellow, Pratik Raghu “The post-growth economy, with its appreciation of regionality, variety, non-alienation, and its ideas for land and monetary reform could be easily integrated into… opposition to the current system.” For many members of the post-growth and degrowth communities, this statement might reaffirm that their guiding…

And how to get there. — By Post Growth Fellow, Elena Hofferberth; and Matthias Schmelzer One of the most promising paths to preventing or slowing runaway climate catastrophe comes from post growth and degrowth scholars and practitioners, who have long engaged with the possibilities of reorganizing our economic system to meet the goal of universal wellbeing…

Digging into sand reveals how current development paradigms work in service to capital — and at the expense of people’s wellbeing. — An interview with Post Growth Fellow, Arpita Bisht Arpita is a political ecologist specializing in conflicts related to natural resources, especially minerals. After initially focusing on bulk metals like iron ore and copper, she discovered that sand was the most conflict-prone material in India, leading her to further investigate its…

Combining these two approaches can build political bridges and allyship between people from all over the world, while tackling systems of oppression at every level. — An interview with Post Growth Fellow, Tonny Nowshin Tonny has been active in the degrowth movement since 2017. While studying for her second Master’s, in Economics, she came across the degrowth community. From her experience of that engagement Tonny noticed with frustration that degrowth has a blind spot when it…

How our work has been rippling out across the world this month. — Here at the Post Growth Institute, we collaboratively develop ideas, programs, events, and alliances that promote the equitable circulation of money, power, and natural resources in our local communities and global economy. …