What post-growth activities are already happening?

 

 

 

So many aspects of an equitable, post-growth, post-capitalist society have already been conceived and implemented.

From the world's 57,000+ credit unions, to the reciprocity-based Kula Exchange of the Massim archipielago and the emphasis on measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, these practices, approaches, and ideas operate within, and often despite, the pressures of a globally dominant capitalist system. Such activities are part of a broader, often disconnected, evolving tapestry that is rarely acknowledged for its transformative impact in creating a thriving future within ecological limits.

The Post Growth Encyclopedia (PGE), currently in development, will be an online, searchable database of hyperlinked terms (examples below), seeking to celebrate and connect people to existing, cross-cultural practices, approaches, and ideas that can inspire a faster, more holistic transition to a truly sustainable future (one in which money, power and natural resources inherently circulate, rather than accumulating).

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