Degrowth and Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation, by Nathan Barlow, Livia Regen, Noémie Cadiou, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Max Hollweg, Christina Plank, Merle Schulman and Verena Wolf (eds).

• 418 pages
• 27th July 2022
• MayFlyBooks/Ephemera
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1906948607
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1906948603

This book is a project of Degrowth Vienna, and is a compilation of the work of over fifty authors from the degrowth community, with the ambition of showing us how degrowth can become a reality. My favorite chapter was Chapter 6: ‘Who shut sh*t down? What degrowth can learn from other social-ecological movements’, showing how social change has happened in the past, and what the degrowth movement can learn from these actions, also looking at the various ways in which degrowth can communicate and mobilize so that it can becomes a household word.

Part II of the book covers the various sectors of the economy and how degrowth applies to them, including food, care, mobility and transport, energy, work, money and transport and more. Each section has a case study to bring the degrowth vision to life. This is a wonderful book to help us understand what a degrowth future could look like, and how we can get there.

This book is available to download for free here.

Praise for Degrowth and Strategy:

“This book is the perfect gateway to strategy and action for our time.” – Julia Steinberger

“This is a book everyone in the degrowth community has been waiting for.” – Giorgos Kallis

“This is a true gift, not only to degrowthers, but to all those who understand the need for radical change.” – Stefania Barca

“Above all, Degrowth & Strategy is a work of revolutionary optimism.” – Jamie Tyberg.

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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