Degrowth Discussion and Organizing Toolkit
How do I start talking about degrowth with my…
colleagues, friends, classmates, co-workers, neighbors, town?
This discussion toolkit is designed to help get you started facilitating and organizing conversations about degrowth.
We've compiled discussion guides and lessons learned from community and campus groups across the U.S. and beyond.
Guides
Read and discuss
A library of literature directly and indirectly related to degrowth. These texts have proven to be great discussion aids.
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A “Degrowth 101” / An introduction to degrowth
Covers economic histories and the ecological overshoot.
Asks “How much is enough?” and “Will technology save us?”
A series of recent publications from major news organizations
Ranging perspectives on degrowth from supportive to critical
Engage with writing from multidisciplinary perspectives
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Extensive definitions of degrowth concepts and the movements that bloom in the degrowth framework
Propositions for degrowth in our future
Authored by Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter, and Matthias Schmelzer; degrowth and climate researchers
Where Do We Go from Here? (PDF)
Dr. King’s last publication
Provides both experience and precise calls for change
Addresses despair in the face of seemingly invincible obstacles
Present and organize
Slides and guides to aid making a challenge to growth with an audience.
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“What is degrowth?” Starter Slides
List of degrowth definitions
Aid to get you started building introductory slides for your event
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Gather a single panel with a facilitator to answer “Has the economy outgrown the planet?”
Outline for single event with discussion topics and structure
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Organize a multi-panel day-long event followed by audience discussion
Includes ideas for topics and structure
Resources
External programs and events
Recommended sources of information and action-building around degrowth.
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A loose collective of activists, academics and advocates for degrowth from across the United States. Check out their resources page!
International Degrowth Network
Global community of individuals, organizations, and degrowth allies committed to creating an equitable and sustainable world for all generations. See their members page.
A prominent online space providing resources on degrowth. Check out their get involved map.
Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice
Published several primers on degrowth, tax justice, system change, and more.
Active from 2021 through 2023, the initiative outlined a comprehensive feminist agenda.
This agenda seeks to urgently and radically transform our approach to economic growth, our systems of production and consumption, and the rules that govern our macroeconomic and multilateral systems.
a think-and-act-tank dedicated to the radical transformation of our economies and societies through research, advocacy, education, training and events around degrowth
Institute for Planetary Thinking
Through their innovative digital curriculum and eTextbook, they aim to build a shared understanding of our current crisis landscape, what shaped it, and the basic design criteria required to make authentic progress for a better future.
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A 4-day gathering in Chicago, IL to convene activists, academics and degrowth advocates from around the U.S. and beyond.
Use the link to learn read the recap and consider how events like this could be formed again.
Ongoing series of dialogues centering the challenge to endless economic growth.
The first international master's fully dedicated on research and policy for degrowth. The faculty consists of researchers devoting their work on degrowth-related areas and they will share and discuss their latest research with students.
re(biz): Project Tipping Point
Calls and events that are a pioneering self-paced journey, community and education-in-action movement.
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