noahpinion.blog/p/jd-vances-cr…

What now?

#degrowth #rightwing #economics #capitalism #colonialism #politics

"The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item’s molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifies the medication from its molecular profile—or reports that it’s phony."

Tricorder alert!

spectrum.ieee.org/small-langua…

#ai #food #medicine #pharmaceutics #degrowth

Solitary account. An independent scholar of various #humanities. I have lived with #disability my entire adult life. I try to bring attention to #ableism. I earned a master’s as an adult to escape life below the poverty line. I am for community-intra-degrowth; #Localism as #degrowth.

poet.garden
tilley.earth/

@poetry
@writingcommunity

#Introduction #Introductions #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Poem #WritingCommunity #books #amwriting #writing #art #sociology #HumanRights

#TaxTheRich und damit die das auch merken: Privatjet-Flugverbot EU-weit!!!

#TaxWealthNotWork #CapitalismKills #SystemChange #planetboundaries #PeopleOverProfits #postwachstumsökonomie #degrowth #sozialökologischetransformation

New server so a new #Introduction.

I have been enjoying the fediverse from raphus.social, but wanted a more local instance. I live in northern #NJ outside of #NYC. I am a physics PhD working at a scientific instrument company. Over the past few years I have dived into #unschooling , #nvc , #permaculture , #botany , #freeSoftware , #foss , #sociocracy. Recently, I am interested in #limitsToGrowth , #collapse , and #degrowth. I'm married, and a dad of two boys 8 and 5 years old.

…The yin to progressive enhancement’s yang is supposed to be graceful degradation.

Disgraceful degradation is not the same. It’s akin to #postgrowth instead of #degrowth

Nein! Nein! Nein! und nochmal Nein!

Eine kapitalgedeckte, auf Rendite angewiesene Rente ist keine Lösung für nix, weil sie uns an ein Wirtschaftssystem fesselt, welches wir überwinden müssen, wenn wir soziale und ökologische Probleme wirklich lösen wollen.

Rente - oder wie auch immer man es nennen will, wenn alle im Alter angemessen versorgt sind - ist eine gesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Sie darf, wenn Gewinne immer mehr auf Maschinenarbeit basieren, auch nicht an Arbeit gekoppelt sein, zumal dann Care-Arbeit und Gesellschaftsarbeit benachteiligt sind. Für so etwas gibt es Steuern! Und wenn man Renten und Steuern halbwegs pfiffig aufeinander abstimmt, ist das auch nichts, was man als "Schulden" werten sollte.

Ich möchte nicht länger von ambitionslosen Trotteln regiert werden. Können wir da mal was machen?

#Rente #NichtMeinKanzler #Degrowth

4/4

…Or that every EV vehicle of car weight or above takes 2 tonnes or more of coal to make and that puts 4 tonnes of CO2 in the air.

Or, and this is the real kicker, all this burgeoning electrification has so far not reduced global emissions at all and those need to be *plummeting*.

So in summary I would say that the electrification ‘plan’ looks really problematic.

And that maybe we should be integrating other levers

#degrowth

nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion…

This is a great example of #degrowth and #solarpunk. It is being done by #indigenous folks.

Coincidentally, in the hopeful climate #fiction "A New Faith" (see link in bio) - an indigenous leader of the Sami does something similar for helping #climate refugees.

#bookstodon #books #climatefiction #book #novel #mystery #thriller #climatechange #immigration #migration

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Great news from Sy Taffel @sy regarding his book on the radical future of a digital commons

@jessamyn
“Really pleased to announce that my book 'Postgrowth Digital Futures: Digital Technologies, Degrowth, and Radical Abundance' is published today by Bristol University Press.”

Read a summary/excerpt here.

transformingsociety.co.uk/2026…

#degrowth #postgrowth #digital #tech #sustainability

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/p…

Let’s use the word ReGrowth, not degrowth

We know the word degrowth is unappealing, thanks to loss aversion theory.0 Loss aversion theory refers to a cognitive bias in which a situation is perceived as worse if it is framed as a loss, rather than a gain. Losses tend to be treated as if they were twice as large as an equivalent gain. This makes it impossible to build a successful movement based on loss, such as a degrowth movement.

ReGrowth is essentially Regeneration. It means fixing the mess that mass consumerism has created. Fixing the untold damage that 70+ years of consumerism has done to our planet, our cites and to people. ReGrowth means taking what has been broken and rebuilding a better world around people and nature.

We need to ReGrow our social connections again, and cure the global loneliness epidemic. 1 We need to ReGrow our lost forests and regenerate our depleted soils. We need to ReGrow our cities into thriving spaces for people, nature, commerce and entertainment. Let’s ReGrow a pollution free planet and restore the abundant wildlife it once sustained. Let’s ReGrow our democracies from the ground up, through local communities. ReGrowth is a story of positive life affirming and life enhancing growth, not the toxic, exploitative, planet wrecking growth we have today.

How do we Regrow our world? It starts with one simple step; change the way we measure success. Because what gets measured gets managed. Instead of using GDP as an indicator of success we could use something different. Let’s call it RPI. (Regrowth Progress Indicator) RPI would measure environmental and societal impacts of every activity and take them into consideration in every decision making process. Everything we make and build and do would need to be contributing to ReGrowth in some way. This one change alone, if it was mandatory for Governments and Corporations, would change the world as we know it, for the better.

Changing the way we measure success changes the way we make decisions.
Instead of simply asking, how much will this cost and how much will this earn? we should ask “how will this ReGrow our community, our social cohesion, our biodiversity, our…?” Not measuring environmental impacts, health impacts, societal impacts has put us into this poly crisis. Measuring and taking action to avoid negative impacts is the way we get out. The only question then is, what do we measure to inform our decisions?

We already have some excellent thinking in this area. Genuine Progress Indicator. (GPI) Index of Human Development. (HDI) Human Poverty Index. (HPI) Gross Domestic Happiness. (GDH) Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare. (ISEW) Happy Planet Index (HPI) Green gross domestic product (Green GDP or GGDP) are all different ways of measuring what matters, that we can draw inspiration from. We also have Doughnut Economics, which provides a whole economic system that broadens the definition of economic success by incorporating factors such as social welfare, environmental sustainability, and human thriving.

If we put new metrics in place we encourage new thinking. Every problem becomes an opportunity to make life better. We kick off a race to the top, not to the bottom. Degrowth speaks to us of the need for less. We do need less pollution, less destruction, less climate change, less social injustice, but we need to frame it as ReGrowth, then we focus on more. We can think about a more vibrant society, more freedom, more social mobility, more resilience, more free time, more sustainability, more actual free speech, more good jobs, more…

SolarPunk is that ReGrowth story. It’s not about creating a perfect world, it’s about creating a better world, as well as accepting imperfection. It’s less of a destination and more of a journey, guided by new ReGrowth metrics. It’s about ensuring every day we are healing our planet, healing our societies, healing ourselves. Every day we move from an extractive and exploitation economy to a restorative and fair society.

There are three possible paths to ReGrowth. Through economic collapse, through incremental change or through rapid change. As we don’t know exactly when economic collapse WILL happen, we need to prepare for all three. With economic collapse and rapid change, it’s important to have a whole system thought out, ready for this great transformation, like Doughnut Economics. With incremental change we need to look at the world as it is now and try and implement as many smaller changes and ReGrowth metrics as possible. Whatever the way forward we can and should plan for them all.
ReGrowing after the collapse means two things. Starting now, building more sustainable communities. Like joining a Transition Town movement2 or starting a Solar punk Community3. As well as planning for a complete restructure after collapse happens. (Retro Suburbia)
ReGrowing incrementally means looking at how we can put those ReGrowth metrics into our governments, into companies, into local councils. Looking at how we can make changes within the current system. While accepting that this is not the ideal outcome.
ReGrowing for rapid change means facilitating rapid change. Joining a progressive organisation that seeks this kind of rapid change. Supporting the people who want rapid ecological based change now.4 This can also be done while pushing for incremental changes or building more sustainable communities.

Our world is like a sick and dying tree. Its branches badly hacked by consumerism, its roots damaged by political lies, its leaves burnt by climate change and its biodiversity diminished. But it still lives. It can still be saved, it can still grow 1000’s more offspring and create a giant forest. It’s time to ReGrow that tree, heel our planet and our societies and make them more abundant than we have ever known.

Featured image thanks to Sharyn Morrow flickr.com/photos/sharynmorrow… shared under CC licence

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#Biodiversity #CircularEconomy #climateChange #ClimateAction #DeGrowth #Environment #OWGF #Regeneration #ReGrowth #Soil #SolarPunk #sustainability #Urbanism

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Our Wondeful Green Future

2024-08-04 08:46:17

Transition Together’s free step-by-step guide

What If… we could reimagine our future as thriving, fairer, more resilient and more connected? How could that vision help us to move forward and take practical action towards a better future?

Transition Together have just brought out a free step-by-step guide to building a community vision, a great tool for making local change. The guide is designed to help groups and communities open up their imagination and start exploring what a better future could look like in their context. It helps to build a shared vision of what’s possible, a vital starting point to exploring how we can work together to make it a reality.

The guide is for any group that wants to expand their vision of what’s possible in the future and explore how they want to work towards it. It is designed for starting conversations within a local community and to create a space to hear different perspectives and needs. The exercise can also be used to investigate a single theme or issue, like food or transport, or by a group which isn’t place-based but wants to reimagine the future of their area of interest – like the arts or youth provision.

If you are from a community group that wants to invite the wider community into this process you might like to do this exercise within your organisation first. This lets you become really familiar with it before running it with a bigger audience, but also allows your members to fully contribute and explore your priorities and focus in a deeper, richer way.

The guide is based on the experience of the Transition Movement, a network of community groups in 50 countries; people working together locally to address the big, complex problems of our time. They do this by reimagining our local communities, and then taking practical action to help them become thriving, inclusive, more resilient places for everyone. ‘Transition’ simply means change and how we get from one thing to another – from a damaging, polluting, unequal present to a fairer, more resilient, regenerative future for all.

There are some 300 local Transition groups in communities across the UK. They are supported by Transition Together in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) in Scotland. This approach to visioning was developed during the global coronavirus pandemic and is inspired by Rob Hopkins’ work around What if, and the 3 horizons framework (h3uni.org/). This framework was developed to help navigate situations where there is a high level of uncertainty and also a high level of potential for change. It’s an approach that has been tried and tested by many local Transition groups working to take action from the ground up, and helped them go on to make changes in their community.

Find out more: www.transitiontogether.org.uk

You can down the guide HERE

#Resilience #TransitionNetwork #climateChange #OWGF #StrongTowns #sustainability #Urbanism

Transition Together - Transition Together

Building Resilient Communities Across Britain Across the country people are feeling things can’t keep going as they are.

^{Rhiannon (Transition Together)}

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Beyond GDP: delivering sustainable and inclusive #wellbeing

The 'sustainable and inclusive wellbeing' EU initiative supports the development and use of indicators that aim to go 'beyond GDP', including environmental and social aspects of prosperity, focusing on the wellbeing of all people and the planet.

joint-research-centre.ec.europ…

#degrowth #solarpunk #wellbeing #UNpol #beyondgdp

4. Vor dem Hintergrund des Überlebens-/Kunkurrezkampfes der fossilen Mächte, sind neue Errungenschaften im IT-Bereich erstmal nur weiter "Waffen". Es geht nicht nur um Unhabhängigkeit zur USA sondern auch um den wachsenden Feind im eigen Land! (s.u.a.a Rainer Mühlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus))

5. Ich persönlich habe keine Berührungsängste mit neuen Technologien, nutze sie, soweit ich ein gewisses Maß an Kontrolle darüber habe, aber hallo, bei allen zunehmenden Unzulänglichkeiten:
noch gehört mein Gehirn mir!!! #Fedioma

#ki
#degrowth
@RainerMuehlhoff

If we actually want to have #AI in our world, and it's a big IF, then it has to be #small AI. Check out our new #DRS paper to find out what we mean by that.

Small AI: A degrowth imaginary for designing with/for artificial intelligence. doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1193 (written together with Roy Bendor and Dave Murray-Rust)

Also see the TU #Delft "AI Futures Lab – Rights & Justice" tudelft.nl/ai/ai-futures-lab

#digital #degrowth #bitsundbaeume

…Because if the thing that is ‘clean’ is not making a tangible difference to the thing that it is a magic bullet for, then what tf else should we be doing?

Cough cough #degrowth

Mir auch, #spon , mir auch!

Dieses Scheißteil wächst noch immer und bringt uns damit noch um.

#Gesundschrumpfen #Degrowth #Postwachstum #WenigerIstMehr #GenugIstGenug #GutesLebenFürAlle #PlanreichesSchrumpfen #Wachstumskritik #CareOekonomie #Enkeltauglich

6 June 2026 (this Saturday) is Global #Degrowth day 💚🐌

Doing an event? Register it here please:
degrowth.network/our-work/glob…

One of my research participants told me she went to a talk, and the speaker said that she refused to use the words acrylic, nylon, or polyester: it's all plastic.
Oil isn't just an energy generator. It's a material, a physical thing that we use for energy as well as for basically making tons of other materials which are everywhere: clothing, appliances, medicines, fertilisers, cars, even buildings. For all the talk on renewables, energy isn't the only game in town.

#ClimateDiary #Degrowth

Mark Burton

2026-05-19 07:10:54

New from me.
Hormuz as a taste of the coming, bigger slowdown.

The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/wa…

#Hormuz #SupplyChains #Collapse #PeakEverything

The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals

With transport through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill, we get a picture of how oil and petrochemicals are part of our life

^{Mark Burton (North West Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism)}

Chloe tenía un hueso verde de juguete desde que era cachorro, su juguete favorito hasta que por fin se rompió por la mitad y le compramos otro hueso verde.

Bueno pues Chloe dice que fuck el nuevo hueso verde, si el viejo aún se puede usar aquí no se tira nada.

#decrecimiento #degrowth #dogsofmastodon #perritos

Statt endlich weltweit hohe und gleiche arbeitsrechtliche Standards wie in Deutschland durchzusetzen, werden lieber hier die Errungenschaften der letzten 200 Jahre revidiert, weil die - Pardon! - schwachsinnige Führung unseres ressourcenarmen Arbeiter- und Bauernstaats glaubt, sich irgendwie gegen China und Indien durchsetzen zu können. Ja, LOL, ey!

"Dumm wie Deutsche" wird ein geflügeltes Wort werden.

#Degrowth #Ökosozialismus

There's nothing "circular" about it, if we keep on buying more and more of everything year after year. The first rule to be circular is to stop growing. Circles have a constant radius.

#CircularEconomy #Degrowth

@AwetTesfaiesus hatte #kürzlich mal gefragt, was wir mit #Degrowth verbinden und wie wir es praktizieren.

Mein erster Gedanken war: ich hab früher halt #NikoPeach gelesen. Das wars.

Dann ist mir aber doch was eingefallen: Klamotten. Ich kaufe keine. Schon seit Jahren nicht mehr. Ich nutze einfach die, die ich hab. ( und akzeptiere auch Löcher u.Ä.)

Same source, wonderful quote:

#Degrowth #DirectAction #WorldBuilding

I'm a words and language person, but reading this made me realize that sometimes words are not doors, as I tend to believe. Or rather: sometimes the doors words would open are barred from the inside. Communal action might open them.

From this article: in-between-days.ghost.io/direc…

#Degrowth #DirectAction

@FlippoFlip
Die #Leerstandssteuer der Kommune hoch und es kommen plötzlich zahlreiche Wohnungen auf den Markt und die Mieten werden wieder bezahlbarer...
Viele Geschäfte stehen leer, machen wir Wohnraum daraus.

#TaxTheRich #TaxWealthNotWork #CapitalismKills #SystemChange #planetboundaries #PeopleOverProfits #postwachstumsökonomie #degrowth #sozialökologischetransformation

Ich versuch hier ja immer mal Sachen einzustreuen, die mich/uns davor bewahren, komplett die Hoffnung zu verlieren. 🙃 Oft in Form von #TV_Tipp 's.
Hier ist einer, ne absolut fantastische Doku über andere Formen der #Wirtschaft, die möglich wären, so dass alle ein gutes Leben haben können.
Klingt utopisch, ja. Aber wann wenn nicht jetzt fangen wir damit an? Jede/r halt so wie mensch kann.

#GutFuerDieSeele #Degrowth #Donut #oekonomie #GutesLebenFuerAlle

arte.tv/de/videos/125691-000-A…

Hin und wieder - vielleicht nicht oft genug, #kürzlich dann aber doch denke ich an die #SolarPoweredWebsite

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

#genug #degrowth #lowtechmagazine #SolarPunk

Live small.

#photography #blackAndWhite #fujifilm #monochrome #creativity #blogging #journal #photo #deGrowth #simplicity

shojiwax.com/2026/03/18/live-s…

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2026-03-17 21:47:23

Live small.

Im pretty sure that the best things in life are not always free. But they are definitely simple.

I have become addicted to watching videos produced by Amy Spires. Amy lives a simple life on the Isle of Skye with her partner and small dog. She spends her days exploring the island, riding her bike, and making things (she is a weaver, photographer, sign maker, and spoon carver).

Amy does not have a lot. She has recently moved from a winter rental house back into her tiny vintage camper (The topic of the video below).

Here is the thing. Amy seems to be deeply content with herself. She has found (or at least appears to have found) that state of bullshit-free eudaimonia amongst the warp and woof of her life. I like Amy.

youtu.be/SEjKeDy6a38

You can check out Amy’s website HERE.
#blackAndWhite #creativity #photography

Moving back into my tiny home - tour, solo night & a new awning

Big thanks to Aferiy for my little power bank…Product: £50 OFF, AFERIY 100W 99.2Wh Portable Power Station, (AF-PB010-Grey)Link: https://pboost.me/T11A7kcAcLi...

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Hi #sciencemastadon, just migrated to social.edu.nl. A re-introduction: I'm a researcher working at Wageningen University and Research (#wur), studying the #ecology of #marinemammals (mostly #seals) in the Netherlands or #arctic, analysing #spatial distribution and #habitat selection based on #wildlife #tracking or #drone/ #uav/ #satellite data using #rstats

Also interested in human #behavioural ecology and alternative economic systems like #degrowth/ #postgrowth

Below movie of our research

In der Familie sprechen wir relativ intensiv über #ZeroGrowth und überlegen, was wir davon halten und was sinnvolle Schlussfolgerungen sind.

Habt Ihr persönliche Erfahrungen mit #ZeroGrowth oder gar #DeGrowth? Praktiziert ihr etwas konkretes?

Edit: und seht ihr #ZeroGrowth als #Solarpunk ?

Erinnerung an unseren wichtigen Evergreen: "Klima und Kapitalismus"

Das Buch zeigt, warum Klimaschutz nicht ausreicht, solange Wirtschaftssysteme auf Wachstum und Ausbeutung beruhen. Auf Basis aktueller marxistischer Klimatheorien argumentiert es für demokratischen Ökosozialismus als Alternative.

Buch erhältlich unter:
schmetterling-verlag.de/produk…

#buchempfehlung #klimakrise #systemwandel #klimagerechtigkeit #klimaschutz #klimabewegung #greennewdeal #postwachstum #degrowth #ökologischersozialismus

Mein erster Beitrag bei Friendica, aber nicht im Fediverse.

Ich bin hier, um meine Freunde ins Fediverse zu holen. Sie nutzen noch Facebook und mit meinen Mastodon-Erfahrungen kann ich sie bislang nicht begeistern.

Und hier: ich weiß nicht einmal, ob dieser Beitrag so öffentlich erscheint, dass andere Menschen ihn finden können.

Ich versuchs mal mit ein paar Hahtags, die mich sonst so interessieren:
#noafd #degrowth #kapitalismuskritik #Klimaaktionen #fcktrmp

> Hyperscaler haben alle Festplatten gekauft

Super ich werd Gärtner und wir motten alles ein, bis die Hyperscaler ihren Platten überteuert und kaputt als "generalüberholt" bei eBay verkloppen.

Wenn die Festplatten in unseren Virtualisierungsclustern verrecken und es keinen Ersatz mehr gibt, kommt #degrowth von ganz alleine.

Dann gibts Digital Detox für alle.

heise.de/news/WD-und-Seagate-b…

#degitalisierung #digitalisierung #internet

ft.com/content/3c15be3c-bb91-4…

"50,000km of high-speed rail, enough track to circle the globe, compared with 8,500km in the whole of the EU as of 2023. Just over two decades after it was launched, the network now links 97 per cent of cities with populations of more than half a million"

This is how #degrowth is done correctly.

#train #rail #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #transportation #transit

!Decrece, co! Imaginemos un futuro menos en el que consumimos menos y vivimos mejor

13/15 marzo 2026 Centro de Historias #Zaragoza

Evento gratuito . Charlas
Talleres de encuentro y debate, estilos de vida alternativa
#Decrecimiento #Degrowth
Aragón decrece

@musevg
Klar will ich Wachstum, aber an Zufriedenheit mit der Lebenssituation, an sozialer Sicherheit, Frieden und ähnlichen spinnerten Dingen.
@kassander @AwetTesfaiesus

#Konsum #Degrowth #Kretschmann