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Entries by Svenja Meyerricks
DE/GROWTH: Human Ecology, Economy, Community
An online collaborative learning programme with a residential learning retreat / field trip to Ullapool, run in partnership by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough! Scotland.The programme consists of A weekly online session: Wednesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Sept 14th - Nov 16th 2022A residential learning retreat and field trip in the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool...
CODE RED AND THE BLUE ZONE
As we (un)settle into 2022, the Enough! collective are reflecting on the profound lessons we are learning from the pandemic, the critical problems that were exposed through COP26 and the ongoing crisis of the British State: and asking what it means for those working in resistance and struggle.There is no single story that...
The Degrowth Sessions: Planting an Economy for All
A series of teach-ins by the Centre for Human Ecology and Enough!We invite climate activists and all interested folk to this series of teach-ins which frame economic growth as a key driver of climate breakdown, and explore new models and narratives of degrowth and decolonisation for sustaining livelihoods on a finite planet. The for...
LESS #3 – Call for Contributions
We are currently seeking contributions to our upcoming issue LESS #3: Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red ZoneThe recent IPPC report signals the latest three-alarm warning for humanity and the biosphere. It's a red alert for the 'red zone'- those areas of our planet responsible for the most emissions, which are also now squarely...
Tailor Made Degrowth: How a localised clothing economy can contribute to a degrowth future
by Alis Le MayThis is from #2 of LESS – our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy here.The fashion industry is among the most polluting industries on the planet. It is fraught with ethical atrocities, inherently resource-hungry and, some might claim, entirely unnecessary...
STORY OF STEEL AND THE LETTER M
Poem by Juana Adcock. Illustration: Fadzai Mwakutuya; photo: Ewan BushThis is from #2 of LESS - our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy here.SteelI place my palm en la reja called border wall.Let its steel enter my body: iron alloyed with carbonhardened to...
Scotland quo vadis?
Scotland is a country facing challenges while heading for several transitions simultaneously, but also blessed by opportunities. Working to realise them is urgent to make Scotland future-proof – a green country with a clean economy and solidarity society. Transforming the economy by physical degrowth would be active work towards independence, first within the political...
Co-housing
Communality is a pre-requisite to a degrowth future. This is true in housing as much as any sphere as we imagine moving beyond ownership. Sarah Glynn on a home for everyone.This is from #2 of LESS our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy...
Enough’s session at the International Degrowth Conference – register now!
Enough!'s Svenja Meyerricks and Ewan Mackenzie (University of Newcastle) are going to co-host a session at the International Joint Online Conference of the international degrowth research networks, the International Society for Ecological Economics and the European Society for Ecological Economics, hosted by University of Manchester, UK.The Scottish Degrowth Commission: work, livelihoods and a ‘just...