Working Groups
Several degrowth movement-building working groups emerged out of DeSchool 2025, as well as from DGI’s ongoing partnerships. These working groups are either collaborations between the DGI team and other degrowth activists and researchers around the world, or are projects the DGI team supports and helps to promote, even if our team is not actively involved in facilitating them.
This page serves as a clearinghouse of information on the working groups, where you can find overviews of the groups and their work, schedules of the meetings, and the names and contact information of the working group facilitators.
If you would like to get involved in any of these working groups, please reach out to the relevant working group facilitator directly. Each group has its own process for taking on new members, which the group’s facilitator can explain to you.
Unless otherwise noted, all working groups meet remotely on Zoom.
Degrowth Policy Working Group
Coordinator: Anna Prouty (DGI)
Meetings: Biweekly on Fridays at 11:00AM Central Time
The Degrowth Policy Working Group is a collaboration between multiple researchers and organizations, facilitated by the DGI team. The purpose of the group is to produce scholarship and advocacy toolkits for those interested in furthering public policy to challenge economic growth in the US. The group is currently working on an explainer document outlining what defines degrowth policy and what possibilities exist to challenge growth at the federal, state and local levels.
For more information, or to get involved, please reach out to anna@degrowthinstitute.org.
Degrowth Research Collaboration Circle
Coordinators: Alison Chopel and April Roggio
Meetings: 1st Monday of each month at 6:00PM Central Time
Emerging from the 2025 Deschool Gathering in Chicago, we’re a broad, interdisciplinary network of scholars exploring practical, place-based pathways beyond growth. We focus on applied, community-engaged work—local provisioning and food systems, mutual aid networks, collaborative and democratic governance, rural and urban equity, and the behavioral/psychological dimensions of sufficiency. We meet to share work, trade methods, and develop joint projects that turn ideas into practice. We welcome collaborators from across North America and the countries and territories in the Pacific and Caribbean Oceans colonized by the US, who want to co-author, co-design, and co-create rigorous, hopeful research for thriving within ecological limits.
For more information or to get involved, please email alison@solidarityresearch.org and aroggio@albany.edu.
North American Circle of the International Degrowth Network
Facilitator: Jason Barahona Rosales (DGI)
Meetings: 3rd Monday of each month at 2:00pm Central Time
The International Degrowth Network (IDN) is organized into many Circles, each with specific purposes, responsibilities and domains. The North American Circle has recently reformed to tether the groups and individuals across the continent working on and associated with Degrowth. Find out different ways to plug in and help develop the group!
Use this link to join the IDN and its North American Circle.
Use this link to help decide the future of the North America Circle.