a two-part query:

1. from my understanding of degrowth, personal investments are antithetical to degrowth values and the movement, even if they are in sustainable businesses. true? other takes?

2. if this is the case, what do you all think is the most degrowth way to save for the future? savings account? property purchase? directly supporting resilience (and other) efforts in your local community? other ideas?

The Mseli project is a project that aims to normalize appreciation and rememberance.

Currently, we are trying to help communities become more united and connected through the daily rememberance tradition.

The tradition involves voting on a poll on a daily basis that you remembered the degrowth movement so that we can see the true number of people who remember and appreciate the movement everyday.

The primary benefit of this tradition is the strengthening of our community.

Each time you visit the daily remembrance post, you’ll see how many others are participating (say thousands), creating a shared sense of presence and solidarity.

The secondary advantage is that it will provide us with valuable proof to build a dedicated app that amplifies this daily tradition.

The app will feature a status update that users will see before they can show their remembrance.

With thousands of people viewing this daily status, we could sell advertising space on the daily updates to businesses or projects, since they’ll be seen by thousands—if not tens of thousands—of people each day.

The community can then vote, using an online direct democracy of the app, on how to allocate these funds, ensuring that resources are directed toward causes and projects that benefit the degrowth movement.

This will allow us to switch the online influence from individuals influencers to collective communities.

But it all starts with embracing the daily remembrance tradition.

So, remember below:

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This is something that hasn't been happening enough and I think growthists are now claiming they know what is "universally good" for everyone, then seeing as there is no evidence for it: It is as valid for the religions and philosophies who disagree to step up and present diverse perspectives of morality against this to the public.

Apart from the Protestants being mainly the only ones that agree or who founded this "growth = divine goodness" school of moral thought, why aren't the others doing this enough? Who founded this notion first anyway?

The moment growthists try to dictate "universal good" it should be fine for different religions and philosophies to publicly present alternative views.

Hey everyone,

I am studying Sustainable Energy Systems at the Technical University of Denmark and I am getting closer to writing my master's thesis. Throughout my studies, I've explored various green energy technologies, as well as topics like machine learning and operations research in energy systems.

A lot of what we learn is based on the capitalist economic system we live in, so many of our courses focus on making everything profitable or maximizing profits. Personally, I am a bit idealistic and do not believe that the current capitalist system works. However, I am also aware that many in my field have a more tech-optimistic view. This has made it difficult for me to find a thesis topic that I can be truly passionate about while also aligning with my moral values.

I don’t think technology is inherently bad, but I feel that capitalist corporations often exploit it solely for profit. I believe it’s possible to combine a green and just energy transition if we shift the focus from profit maximization to broader social and environmental goals.

Does anyone here have experience in combining the green energy transition with degrowth or post-capitalist economic theories? I am not an economist, so I am looking for more basic economic ideas. I’d love to hear any suggestions or potential thesis themes, or if you know of anyone working in this field.

So much money is spent on sadistic torture of refugees fleeing pain. Where if spent on helping them would be way more practical.

Why is so much spent on “boarder security”

https://www.anthropocene.info/great-acceleration.html

Notice how each line is crawling since 1750 and shoots up around 1950

Does business feel increasingly soul-sucking, meaningless, stressful, and dehumanizing to you?

We are all these creative, innovative, impact-driven, caring, change-enthusiastic, entrepreneurial minds, but in the current business system…we cannot be ourselves.

Because this way of doing business, this system, incentivizes fitting in, being like everyone else, being manipulative and egoistical, thinking along, playing zero-sum games, holding back change, and exploiting others including the environment around us.

No wonder we feel shit! We’re built for something else! We’re built for a system that fosters creativity, being different, thinking weird, and embracing change!

Here comes the positive news, though: There is a world of business out there that is different! I call it the Business-As-Un-Usual world.

And in this world, people are building a way of doing business that embraces slowness, mindfulness, sufficiency, and care, while cultivating adventurism, resonance, playfulness, meaning, and interdependence. It's a soul-nourishing world that embraces the do-ers, the changemakers and impact-seekers out there!

And yes it really does exist! I'm talking about business concepts like slow productivity, commoning, mutual aid organizations, co-ops, non-coercive marketing, post branding, nature stewardship, endineering, work-life integration, slow living, post growth, chronowork, small is beautiful,....

So, if you're into this, consider checking out this handbook I put together, showcasing a long list of new, joyful narratives and inspiring business models of a Business-As-Un-Usual world.

Looking forward to discussing it in the comments!

I have been deep-diving on the brilliant Jean-Marc Jancovici and the reports of his NGO, The Shift Project. They produced a plan for the transformation of the French economy a couple of years ago that looks to be one of the few sensible plans around. Here it is: https://theshiftproject.org/article/ptef-livre-et-site-web/.

It's in French so I Google translated all 288 pages.

They asked themselves: what needs to be done if France is to reduce its emissions by 5% every year through to 2050, while giving everybody access to employment?

They did not consider money or GDP (explained in my review)

Here's my summary of the key policies/findings:

- A 50% reduction in energy use by 2050

- A major shift from imported food to local food production

- A 50% reduction in meat consumption, particularly beef

- A halt to new construction, with a focus on renovating and insulating existing buildings

- A decrease in travel, with shorter journeys and longer stays favoured

- Flying increasingly replaced by train travel

- Private car ownership will drop significantly, with greater emphasis on car-pooling and train journeys

- The average car size will decrease, with microcars and electric bikes incentivized by taxing based on energy use per kilometre

- 500,000 new jobs will be created in the agriculture and food sector as there is a shift toward more labour-intensive agriculture like agroecology, local food production, and on-farm food processing (e.g., yoghurts)

- In transportation, jobs will shift from airlines to the railway industry

- 100,000 jobs will be created in small-scale logistics, such as bike couriers

- The bicycle industry (including electric bikes) will expand by 12x, creating 230,000 jobs

- Overall, there will be a net gain of 300,000 jobs

- All employees across all companies required to undertake training in climate and energy

The final point above - mandatory training for ALL employees in ALL companies on energy and climate - seems like a no-brainer and very easy to implement.

54% of the electricity to come from nuclear and is based in a report from the nuclear agency in France of what they could produce if they went all out to maximise nuclear there.

I wrote a full review of the plan here:

https://thecarbonpulse.substack.com/p/what-a-realistic-plan-to-meet-the

I don't understand why in this topic (degrowth), there is only a bunch of "ads" and pictures... instead of people sharing their experience of degrowth, helping each others, sharing their needs, etc.
For instance, I live remotely and start producing my food; I'd like to meet like minded people, etc.