Degrowth Institute

Challenging endless economic growth

Degrowth is an intentional downscaling of the global economy.

Despite our best efforts, the relentless pursuit of economic growth hinders genuine progress towards sustainability, undermining ecological gains and perpetuating injustice. Through education, research, and organizing, we’re working to build a more just and ecological economy beyond growth.

Our Work

Movement-Building

Organizing activists and academics to grapple with economic downscaling and envision alternatives to growth.

DeSchool

Convening advocates and allies to connect and learn from each other in real life. Reach out to us if you want to help out!

Research

Exploring opportunities for degrowth to support climate action, circular economy, and social justice.

Campus Dialogues continue in March! Join us at our next stop: Loyola. Use the events link in our bio for more info and to register. In partnership with Center for Research on International Affairs and Department of Political Science, this multi-disc
Are you in DC? Interested in challenging the idea of endless economic growth? RSVP to john@degrowthinstitute.org to participate in tonight's event!
February 10, 2025 - Campus Dialogues. Starting the Campus Dialogues series -The Tropic Theory of Money: A presentation by Alix Underwood in partnership with EHUM at Notre Dame.
Jan 16, 2025 Degrowth Cafe. Guest speaker Alyssa Mendez, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Chicago, presents on her experience in land rights movements in Greece and relates it to other social movements and the broader degrowth moveme
January 16, 2025 - Degrowth Cafe. Enjoy some drinks and food and discuss with others about the movement of movements! 🎈
December 17, 2024 - DGI Internet Cafe. We got together online to continue unraveling and workshopping the Degrowth Discussion and Organizing Toolkit. Check out the latest version on our website! (in our bio)
December 5, 2024 - Degrowth Cafe. DGI hosted a cafe focused on workshopping the Degrowth Discussion and Organizing Toolkit. This tool is meant to be a community resource that can help guide or spark imagination for degrowth discussions and collabor
December 5, 2024 Degrowth Cafe. Workshopping the Degrowth Discussion and Organizing Toolkit
November 7, 2024 Degrowth Cafe. Back at DGI in person to discuss the Washington Post editorial article titled "Ending growth won't save the planet." Though the article was not in favor of economic degrowth it provided many examples of the
November 7, 2024 Degrowth Cafe.
October 29, 2024 Internet Cafe. We gathered online for our first virtual event to discuss coverage of degrowth in the news. We focused on The Washington Post and The New York Times' recent coverage.
October 3, 2024 Degrowth Cafe. We gathered again at DGI to dive into degrowth; what movement has shaped into and what its future looks like. Here you can see Jason collaborating with a breakout group.

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