Category: Post-Growth Economics and Sustainability

Protected: European Taxonomy: the need for “real” green funding

December 1, 2022 Moritz Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Climate activism in Germany: A discussion full of bias in need of reframing

December 1, 2022 Moritz Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND SUSTAINABILITY

April 27, 2020May 12, 2020 Yanapatr Vongkusolkit Enter your password to view comments.

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Could COVID-19 Pave the Way for Sustainability?

Post-Growth Economics and Sustainability

April 27, 2020May 3, 2020 Nutt.T 6 comments

COVID-19 is a global pandemic that has had major societal impacts even after only four short months. The essence of this strain, being highly infectious […]

Degrowth: Why shrinking the economy can not only save the planet, but also our society.

November 10, 2019February 11, 2020 Ronja 3 comments

Our perpetual pursuit of economic growth not only led to ecological costs but also social injustice. To degrow our economies might therefore be the only solution to this. While many people only think that this will affect their personal well-being negatively, here’s how working less, earning less and consuming less can actually benefit them and everybody else.

Economists Should Promote Self-Esteem Through Non-Consumptive Means

Post-Growth Economics and Sustainability

October 13, 2018February 19, 2020 Matthew H. Benton 1 comment

Promoting self-esteem through non-consumptive means is more economic in the sense that it does not take as much energy and material throughput to achieve the same goal, nor does it come at the mental health cost of unrecognizably lowering self-esteem only to raise it back to a baseline level through the consumption of products.