by Jussi Pasanen.
I recently joined the New Economy Network Australia conference for three days here in Melbourne. It was fantastic. I’ll cover some of my reflections and highlights from the conference below…
Rumble Coffee Roasters, a direct supporter of the 2018 NENA Conference in Melbourne, write about their experience at the three-day conference.
The book Housing for Degrowth is the focus of 26 events in a European train tour of 11 countries from 26 October to 4 December. Co-editors Anitra Nelson and François Schneider will talk to students, degrowth activists, fellow academics — indeed anyone and everyone interested in housing and urban (de)growth in a range of cities.
New Release! Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, by Sam Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal.
On September 29th, David Bollier—the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program Director—delivered a talk at The Land Institute’s annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas, titled “The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination.”
Story by Russ Grayson
HERE’S THE QUESTION: can we build a new economy, a better economy that is different to that dominated by the profit-seeking private sector or the bureaucratic government sector?