EuropeanTour

Degrowth tour of UK, Wellbeing Economic Forum

Examples of degrowth practices in cities:

public transportation, electric buses

 

repair hubs

 

recycling hubs by specific types, food waste recycling

bulk refill shops

 

zero waste hubs (give/swap/buy/salvage)

WWOOF farms - high biodiversity, green houses, composting toilets, recycling everything

 

 

retrofitted mansions for intentional community living

Wellbeing economic forum (including high level govt ministers)

 

 

 

Related links:

          (connections for Lisa Hought-Stewart and David Green to be added)

          (zoom link to be added)

This video looks into the history of the Nation of Hawaii and their village in Pu'uhonua O Waimanalo, and the pieces of the Ahupua'a they are restoring from the tops of the mountains above the clouds to the traditional fishponds built below the estuaries into the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7q8friw1p8

Worker cooperatives can reduce inequality and ecological footprint. The famous Mondragon Corporation in Spain includes a network of several enterprises, fully owned and controlled by its workers, a university and a resident-owned town. see https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n

Intentional Communities and EcoVillages:

Findhorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcfcgeJfoMY

          Auroville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCxCSLOO5jo

          and/or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByRE62_vq30

Intentional Communities by location: https://www.ic.org/directory/intentional-communities-by-country/

           community land trusts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust,

          https://centerforneweconomics.org/apply/community-land-trust-program/directory/,

          https://www.cltweb.org/resources/clt-directory/)

Discussion:

A large percentage of what was seen in UK and Europe was going on in the US in the 1960’s. Some of it is happening now in Cambridge MA. It doesn’t get us very far in terms of the overall economy. How can we affect the overall system?

Wellbeing economy can be good, but can also be based on growth. There is no such thing as a circular economy involving greater and greater mining of rare earth metals.