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#postgrowth

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Thilo

Clean energy is cheaper over its lifetime—but upfront capital blocks its growth. Fossil fuels win not because they’re better, but because they fit short-term finance timelines.
If clean energy is cheaper, the only thing stopping us is time itself. So let’s buy time—for everyone.

Read more → eduzen.bearblog.dev/upfront-ca

educationZENUpfront Capital Kills Clean Energy. Let’s Fix That. Clean energy has already won the race—at least on paper. Solar and wind are, by now, the cheapest ways to generate electricity over their entire lifecycle...
#PostGrowth#CleanEnergy#GreenFinance
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Post Growth Institute

Join @postcarboninstitute and frontline advocates to discuss the microplastic pollution crisis and learn what we – individually and collectively – can do about it.

Register now for the free webinar on June 24 & receive the recording with a donation of your choice amount: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

A modified rendering of the famous Japanese painter Hokusai’s The Great Wave comprised of millions of colorful plastic bits, with white text overlaid reading, “Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Ocean and Our Health, June 24 at 10 am US Pacific Time.” The Post Carbon Institute logo is in the bottom right and artist credits are in the bottom left corner.
#microplastics#plastics#climate
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Thilo

The UN reports what scientists have known for decades: fertility rates are collapsing worldwide.

It’s not the economy, stupid. And it’s not microplastics, silly.
Fertility collapse is a predictable response: populations adapt reproduction rates when survival prospects fall.
It’s not ideology — it’s biology.

🌍🧬 [New blog post](eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-law-be)

educationZENThe Law Beneath All Laws: Why Global Fertility Collapse Can’t Be Legislated Away But no parliament, president, or pope can legislate around this. No policy, no tax credit, no cultural campaign will fix it — It is biological. It is e...
#FertilityCollapse#Demography#ClimateCrisis
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Thilo

@makeinplace I've been exploring similar ideas around rethinking the product lifecycle in a post growth economy. By prioritizing sustainability and circularity, we can create systems that meet real needs without perpetuating waste. Check out my latest blog post for more thoughts on this:

eduzen.bearblog.dev/rethinking

Excited to see the work being done at @makeinplace and looking forward to contributing to the open knowledge bank!

educationZENRethinking the Product Lifecycle: How Post-Growth Economics Can Enable a Viable UBI In a post-growth economy, the traditional product lifecycle is reimagined to prioritize sustainability and circularity. This new approach encourages compa...
#postgrowth#DoughnutEconomics#regenerativedesign
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Thilo

Three months ago, I thought post-growth economics was about giving things up. Now I see it's about holding on — to what truly matters.

🌱 From utopia-writing to blueprint-building: I’ve published a piece on how I changed my hopes about progress, tech, and civilization’s future.

Here is the piece:
🔗 eduzen.bearblog.dev/from-utopi

Let’s talk:
#PostGrowth #Degrowth #Scarcity #Abundance #Commons #DoughnutEconomics #MastodonFutures

educationZENFrom Utopia to Blueprint: How I Discovered Post-Growth Economics Is Within Reach Three months ago, I thought the most meaningful contribution I could make with my knowledge was to imagine a better world — to write the utopia for the th...
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cəci

Yesterday I participated to #TransizioniFest in Airuno (LC, Italy), representing the rather new Italian Post-Growth Platform. We brought an interactive game by DISNOVATION.ORG, fittingly called the Post-Growth Toolkit:

Platform decrescitafelice.it/2024/09/po

Game postgrowth.art/pages/the-game.

And it was cool!!! The toolkit was originally not available in Italian, but it's covered by CC licence so we could translate and adapt it. We also added a more interactive part at the end, where participants could have drawn, played or illustrated their conclusions with movement. In the end, no one chose the creative options :D they were too caught up in discussions, but I guess that's a win too.

You should check it out if you're looking for interactive but content-packed stuff on #degrowth #postgrowth or #politicalecology

Picture shows the post-growth toolkit, including a game board, black cards with key post-growth concepts, and instructions
example of the black cards with key post-growth concepts
The picture shows some of the participants while doing the activity. They're sitting at a long table with the papers and cards of the post-growth toolkit.
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Thilo

🎮 Valve is a rare post-growth unicorn: no venture capital, no quarterly pressure — just sustainable growth and a thriving creative commons.
But what happens when GabeN leaves the scene? Can it stay true to its values?

🧠 Do you know other privately held near-monopolies that resist the corporate drift?

✍️ eduzen.bearblog.dev/valve-the-

educationZEN🎮 Valve: The Post-Growth Unicorn — Growing the Commons, Playing the Long GameValve is a rare beast: a privately held company that grows slowly and organically, without the artificial boost of outside capital. They nurture a commons of...
#PostGrowth#DeGrowth#Valve
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Topi-Matti Heikkola

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Outlines of an industrial policy programme in the current European politico-economical landscape, for those who take a sustainable ecosocial transformation seriously.

No mainstream sustainability wishful thinking - but real analysis with depth, power, politics and ingenuity.

What Bärnthaler, Mang and Hickel set out to do in their new article is remarkable. And in my judgement the result is exceptionally interesting and inspiring.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#IndustrialPolicy#PostGrowth
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Thilo

🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates
Taxation can guide, not punish. Steuern steuern.

🏢 Proprietary IP → high tax
🧩 Permissive FLOSS → moderate tax
🔄 Copyleft/commons → near-zero tax + public support

And when you share while alive, society buys your freedom — castles, cars, and all.

This is the give economy.
Not charity. Incentivized solidarity.

🔗 Read the full post: eduzen.bearblog.dev/commons-no

educationZEN🌍 Commons, Not Conglomerates:  Variable Taxation as a Guide Toward Communal StewardshipIn a post-growth economy, we don’t abolish value — we redirect it. And one of the most powerful tools to do that is already in our hands: taxation. Not a...
#GiveEconomy#CommonsTransition#Copyleft
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Thilo

🚜 What if the Unimog had stayed in the commons?
Born post-WWII to serve many, built to last, the Unimog met global demand — and then its creators went bankrupt. Not from failure, but from success.

They sold to Daimler. The rest is planned obsolescence.

What if they had released the IP instead?

🔗 eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-unimog

educationZEN🚜 The Unimog That Could Have Been: A Post-Growth ParableIn the shadows of World War II, when Europe was rebuilding itself from the ashes, a curious machine was born — one that seemed to embody resilience, versatil...
#PostGrowth#OpenSourceHardware#Commons
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Thilo

@degrowthuk
You’re pointing in the right direction — but the framing matters.
#Degrowth doesn’t have to mean sacrifice.

#PostGrowth can mean abundance — just not the capitalist kind.
Flip the script: from planned obsolescence to legislated longevity, from market pressure to shared stewardship.

Think #FLOSS: repairable, upgradeable, collectively owned.
Work becomes mission-driven — solve a need, share it, move on.

Less waste, more meaning.

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Thilo

🛠️ We were promised 20-hour workweeks.
🤖 Technology was supposed to free us.
📈 Instead, we got burnout, busywork, and gig apps.

A short reflection on why productivity didn't lead to freedom — and how a post-growth economy could give us time back:

👉 eduzen.bearblog.dev/we-were-pr

Curious to hear your thoughts — especially if you’ve felt this tension.

educationZENWe Were Promised Leisure — What Happened?Once, not too long ago, we imagined a future of 20-hour workweeks, AI doing our chores, and machines giving us the most precious of gifts: time. What went wr...
#PostGrowth#FutureOfWork#Degrowth
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CUSP :verified:

"Care is a principle, not just a sub-sector of the economy, not something that we wave around to try and claim the moral high ground for, but a principle. And the basis of that principle is restorative."—@ProfTimJackson
➡️ youtube.com/shorts/xhTTaKf-rRY
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#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #Degrowth #BeyondGrowth #PostWachstum #ÖkonomieDerFürsorge #WohlstandOhneWachstum #Postcroissance #Decroissance #decrecimiento #WellbeingEconomy #CareEconomy #PhilosophyOfCare

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