The Degrowth argument: what has changed from the 1970´s?
Tom Green | 28 March 2025On Sunday I join the working group on political strategies. The two dozen people assembled in the courtyard repeatedly return to a big question that begs a satisfactory answer in order to develop viable political strategies for degrowth. Back in...
▶Negotiating degrowth
Tom Green | 27 March 2025A group of a dozen of us are engaged in an animated debate, sitting around a table in the historic courtyard of the University of Barcelona, trying to combine hard work and at least some indulgence in this balmy day. We have spent the last twenty...
▶One of many GDP debates
Tom Green | 26 March 2025I´m new at blogging and perhaps its best to learn the ropes at a conference where the discussions don´t quite go so late. On our first day, the last panel wrapped up around 10:00 pm and dinner finished just shy of midnight. Our plenary sessions a...
▶Is anyone really ready for degrowth?
Tom Green | 25 March 2025Only a few hours till the conference begins. I´ve been looking forward to this degrowth conference for months, though not without some trepidation. I cannot embrace the term degrowth enthusiastically—it sounds about as intuitively appealing as und...
▶Tom Green
Tom Green, is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia studying ecological economics through the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program.




