2025-02-04 Degrowth
I posted a picture from our living room on fedi and noticed that the book Who is Afraid of Degrowth by Céline Keller was visible on the coffee table. And a bit later, @aimee@mastodon.nz shared a link to the International Degrowth Network, specifically to their values and principles:
Who is Afraid of Degrowth
International Degrowth Network
Welcome to the heart of our movement: the values and principles of degrowth. This space explores the core ideas that drive us towards a sustainable and equitable future, from wellbeing and community to justice and care. As with any pluriversal movement, there are a wide variety of values and principles, not all of which must be fulfilled at once for something to qualify as "degrowth". -- Values & Principles: Explore degrowth
Values & Principles: Explore degrowth
I really like the two lists. Might be useful as a checklist before doing things. There's more on the site, of course.
Values of Degrowth:
- Autonomy & Democracy
- Care
- Justice
- Sustainability & Sufficiency
- Well-being
- Sovereignty
- Community
Principles of degrowth:
- Resource sovereignty: Be a steward of nature
- Embracing the Pluriverse: Celebrate a world of many worlds
- Circularity: Waste not, want not
- Socially useful production: What is not needed should not be made
- Decolonising Futures: Unlearn, relearn, and heal
- Small, not-for-profit cooperatives: People and planet, not profit
- Proximity & Cosmolocalism: Produce local, design global
- Creative Visions: Art as a catalyst for change
- Convivial tools: Technology as a tool, not a master
- Healing Histories: Making amends for past wrongs
- Postwork: Work less, play more
- Active Change: Stand up, speak out
- Value sovereignty: What matters most
- Health: Well-being for All
- Commons: Decide together
- Reconnecting with Spirit: Rediscovering our bonds with the sacred
- Sharing: Sufficiency for all, overabundance for none
- Feminist Futures: Centering equality
- Relational goods: Less stuff, more relationships
- Transformative Learning: Empowering collective action
- Joie de vivre: If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your economy
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