Anitra Nelson
@anitranelson.bsky.social
activist-scholar – degrowth advocate, ecofeminist, anti-capitalist/postcapitalist, writer, researcher
Rapt to be participating in NENA's Post-Growth Futures week - more details events.humanitix.com/nena-post-gr...
NENA Post-Growth Futures Week 2026
Join us in exploring what life beyond a growth-dependent economy could look like - and how we get there!
events.humanitix.com
Read this summary of the great Czech chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth on 'accidental' degrowth practices and collaborative housing: open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
‘Accidental’ degrowth practices
In their chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth, co-authors Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Eva Fraňková, Tomáš Hoření Samec and Jan Malý Blažek draw on Czech examples to describe ‘accidental’ degrowth ...
open.substack.com
Great, thanks @postgrowthplan.bsky.social for the lively discussion on postgrowth planning futures centred on #horizontalism and #degrowth
Post-Growth Planning@postgrowthplan.bsky.social · 4mo ago🫂"How might we plan for more sharing and caring and commoning?" @anitranelson.bsky.social in Becoming a Post-Growth Planner. The degrowth movement, horizontalism, housing, tensions between degrowth and cities, and caring for relations between us and us an earth. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue4...
Great 20-minute doco for introducing degrowth featuring activities at the ISEE and Degrowth Conference in Oslo 2025 (by filmmaker Alvaro Alvarez, Less is more: Can degrowth save the world, BBC 2024) – youtu.be/1zbS6YuD-xg?...
ISEE-Degrowth 2025 Conference Film
YouTube video by The International Society for Ecological Economics
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My contribution to World Poetry Day, 21 March — ending this intervention on political approaches to strategy, Vincent Liegey, Terry Leahy and I argue that a successful degrowth transition and vision requires horizontalist politicking and strategies. degrowth.info/en/blog/hori...
Horizontalism: A degrowth strategy
Degrowth critiques the global capitalist system which pursues economic growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. It exposes the interconnection of systems of oppre...
degrowth.info
How #Australian #housing has grown as well as its price to eat up nature as well as home-owners salaries. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Where have all our front gardens gone?’: Sydney’s supersized driveways eat into yards
Research shows average front garden size has declined by 46% in areas where older low-density homes have been replaced by larger, modern houses
theguardian.com
Watch this great video on simple living collectively: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vf...
After 7 Years in Tiny Houses, They Built Their Dream Earth Home
YouTube video by Living Big In A Tiny House
youtube.com
ISEE's first first webinar for 2026. Our guest is Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist, author, and founder of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University...If you miss the live-stream, watch out for the recording, which will be made available.
In a dark world look for optimism — Melbourne folks, try to get to the launch of Terry Leahy's new book SYSTEM CHANGE for A LIVEABLE FUTURE @ Victoria Trades Hall 6pm for 6.30pm. See you there then. events.humanitix.com/system-chang...
System Change for a Liveable Future Launch!
Melbourne Book Launch for System Change for a Liveable Future!
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'On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage contributed more than 50% of supplied electricity for the first time, while wholesale power prices were more than 40% lower than a year earlier.' theconversation.com/renewables-o...
Renewables over 50%, wholesale prices down – is the energy transition… succeeding?
It wasn’t so long ago pundits claimed Australia’s grid couldn’t run on higher than 20% renewables. Now it’s 50%.
theconversation.com
Thanks @vincent-liegey.bsky.social and @terryleahy.bsky.social – our @degrowthinfo.bsky.social item is #1!
degrowth.info@degrowthinfo.bsky.social · 7mo ago#1 is the piece that started the debate about visions and strategies for degrowth by @vincent-liegey.bsky.social, Anitra Nelson and Terry Leahy 👇 Thank you to all the writers who collaborated with us this year and to all our readers for keeping the fire burning! 🥂🐌🎆
#1 is the piece that started the debate about visions and strategies for degrowth by @vincent-liegey.bsky.social, Anitra Nelson and Terry Leahy 👇 Thank you to all the writers who collaborated with us this year and to all our readers for keeping the fire burning! 🥂🐌🎆
Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel
As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political contex...
degrowth.info
Great Review of Anitra Nelson, with editorial adviser Vincent Liegey. 2025. Routledge Handbook of Degrowth :) journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
Review of Anitra Nelson, with editorial adviser Vincent Liegey. 2025. Routledge Handbook of Degrowth
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