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**1. Neu-Kelte** @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · 16h

**Miss Gayle** @MissGayle@urbanists.social · 1d

Miss Gayle @MissGayle@urbanists.social

"What we need more than new solar-powered factories is the normalization of people turning away from destructive affluence, living simpler and happier lives, and sharing those lives with others. Not utopian lives, of course, but better lives. That will take different forms for different people, and some will be able to make larger changes than others."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-24/business-in-the-age-of-overshoot/

Business in the Age of Overshoot
Trey Sutton, originally published by Resilience.org
April 24, 2025

Perhaps more of us can look for the joyfully modest people in our lives, learning what we can from them instead of from the malignantly selfish, algorithm-drive madness running rampant today. That seems like genuine progress, however slowly it is made.

Teaser image credit: Photo by New York Rowhouse stores and Homes on Unsplash

...The cultural transformation we need in affluent countries involves changes that, to my eyes, are unquestionably positive. Encouraging people to prioritize genuine life satisfaction over hollow, expensive, destructive, and time-consuming illusions of happiness – to prioritize relationships and meaningful work and nature over material luxuries and conveniences – that is worth fostering regardless of how much it scales. Every person who moves in that direction will be better off, and the environment will be better off, too...

#DeGrowth #Localization #Sustainability

**1. Neu-Kelte** @NeuKelte@hear-me.social · 1d

**Bread and Circuses** @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social · 1d

Bread and Circuses @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social

I find this very inspiring. It's part of a manifesto from the Postgrowth Cities Coalition...
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With our eyes set on a postgrowth world, we must promote:

1) Residential buildings that no longer contribute to environmental destruction, but instead catalyze human and ecological flourishing by helping to build communities and reduce the consumption of resources and energy.

2) Transport systems that are no longer produced by environmentally destructive machines, but instead prioritize ecological and social sustainability, granting people access to healthy food, care, and meaningful social engagement.

3) Institutions that cease fetishizing private property as a right, but instead pursue forms of autonomy and democracy that center on essential needs such as social care, health, meaningful social engagement, and human well-being.
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LEARN MORE https://www.postgrowthcities.com/manifesto/

www.postgrowthcities.comManifesto | Postgrowth Cities Coalition Manifesto With our eyes set on a postgrowth world, we must promote: #1 Residential buildings that no longer contribute to environmental destruction, but instead catalyze human and ecological flourishing by helping build communities and reduce the consumption of resources and energy; #2 Transport systems that are no longer produced by environmentally destructive machines, but instead prioritize ecological and social sustainability, granting people access to healthy food, care, and meaningful social engagement;

#Economics #Environment #Climate

**Bread and Circuses** @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social · 1d

Bread and Circuses @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social

Rethinking our priorities...
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What is important in life?

Is it to have the best car and the newest smartphone, or is it to be happy?

Is it to have a high-paid job, or is it to spend time with loved ones and enjoy the beauties of nature?

For critics, degrowth is not very appealing. According to them, it means impoverishment, restraint, scarcity, austerity, or recession. It is seen as a project to reduce the overall prosperity of individuals and societies.

In contrast, I argue that degrowth aims to achieve abundance, prosperity, and richness.

Degrowth is about building societies in which everyone is rich – without much material.

It is impossible to promise everyone to achieve high levels of consumption. Indeed, that would lead to environmental and societal catastrophes. It would also be extremely unfair, as those most suffering from environmental degradation are already the most marginalised.

Instead, degrowth aims to achieve an abundance that does not entail high levels of consumption: a ‘frugal abundance’.
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LEARN MORE https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-26/degrowth-aims-to-achieve-frugal-abundance/

Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "Degrowth aims to achieve frugal abundance." Below this is a photo of a lakeside forest.

#Economics #Environment #Climate

**Christoph Becker** @cbecker@hci.social · 2d

Christoph Becker @cbecker@hci.social

The "Computing within Limits" (LIMITS'2025) deadline is extended to April 30th, 2025 AOE. Submit those papers and spread the word!

LIMITS'2025 welcomes scholarship from a wide range of perspectives that engages with computing and its pressing ecological and social issues and crises including planetary boundaries. CfP:
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/

computingwithinlimits.orgLIMITS 2025 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits

#Limits #CfP #ecology