Degrowth Networks

The International Degrowth Network (external link) (IDN) is a global community of individuals, organisations, and degrowth allies committed to creating an equitable and sustainable world for all generations. They're here to build connections across borders while providing a collaborative space to develop alternative pathways toward a better future.

Vision
A world where we collectively build an equitable future that prioritises happiness, wellbeing, and community — one in which all life thrives and regenerates within planetary boundaries.

Mission
Our mission is to provide a pre-figurative space and structure for collaboration and strategising for a degrowth transformation of society.

Aims

• Create an intentional, international community that overcomes power imbalances through practicing radical inclusivity; active resistance to systems of domination; creating a welcoming, respectful, and caring community; promoting opportunities for cooperation between degrowth-affiliated groups and across borders.
• Develop, prioritise, and enact strategies for a degrowth transitions of living, and organisations in all sectors of society.

Check out their website: www.degrowth.net (external link)

Or follow them on socials: Instagram (external link), Mastodon (external link), LinkedIn (external link), YouTube (external link)

The Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA) is an inclusive network of academics, activists, and practitioners working to foster dialogue between feminists and degrowth proponents and to integrate gender analysis and reasonings into degrowth activism and scholarship.

Feminist degrowth is an interface of feminisms and degrowth. As a principle, there should be no degrowth without feminism. Environmental justice does not only require social justice, but recognising the gendered nature of injustices as well as the role gender plays in every aspect of our lives because of its embedment in the family, the workplace, communities, the state, as well as in sexuality, language, and culture. Theorising and practicing feminist degrowth is a collective, ongoing process.

FaDA's main tool of communication is the FADA mailing list, to which you can subscribe by sending an empty email to fada-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. You can follow them on X: @fem_degrowth (external link) and meet occasionally for open meetings and dialogue. Anyone can join via the mailing list!  

You can learn more about them here: https://degrowth.info/en/fada (external link) 

And you can reach out to the coordination team by sending an email to fada-feminismsanddegrowth@riseup.net 

The Municipal Degrowth Network brings together municipal policy and degrowth. It hosts a mailing list where anybody can freely share and receive news, works, projects, events and publications to a larger network of subscribers.

You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/municipal-degrowth (external link)

Learn more about the Municipal Degrowth Network with this presentation (external link).

The Postgrowth Cities Coalition bridges theoretical and practical knowledge on different aspects of urban degrowth. They collaboratively produce knowledge, tools, and skills for researchers, advocates, and practitioners. 

It is open to scholars, activists, and practitioners who advance practical and theoretical knowledge on a socially just and ecologically regenerative mode of urbanization. Together, they are building a network of engaged professionals around the topic of degrowth and urbanization.

Anybody can join the coalition, provided that their work deals explicitly with degrowth and urban issues. You can write to them (external link) and share your work.

Check out their website: https://www.postgrowthcities.com/ (external link) 

The Blue Degrowth Network is a new project and you are welcome to join! As of February 2025, they are just starting to recruit members and are planning their first online meetings.

Goal: The network aims to bring together and is open for anyone critically interested in, engaged with and struggling against blue growth projects and policies, or advocating for counter-hegemonic ways of relating to the oceans.

What: The network shall be a space for sharing and receiving information via the mailing list and meetings as well as a meeting point for proactive thinking and action, for developing ideas and strategizing.

Format: Network members will meet 3-4 times a year online and keep in contact via the mailing list to share information and develop ideas. The main language of communication is spoken English.

Who: Members of the network are ocean enthusiasts, marine social/natural scientists, environmental justice activists, NGO workers, (blue) degrowthers, and probably much more that is to be determined! It is not necessary that members identify themselves as blue degrowthers.

When: Click HERE (external link) for the date of the next online meeting of the Blue Degrowth Network!

How: If you would like to join the network, please send two emails: 

1. Subscribe to the mailing list via an empty mail to blue_degrowth_network-subscribe@lists.riseup.net and confirm your subscription upon receiving a return email.
2. Send an email to bluedegrowthnetwork@riseup.net to say hello, if you wish to be onboarded via an online meeting or have any questions! The facilitator will reply to your questions and introduce you to the workings of the network.

Organizers: The networks initiators are: Maria Hadjimichael, Irmak Ertör, Borja Nogué-Algueró and Jing Sun. Jing (she/her) is the facilitator of the network and moderator of the mailing list.

Blue Degrowth Network Mailing List

The mailing list is a space for members and the community of the Blue Degrowth Network to share and receive information on blue degrowth (or similar) related topics and communicate with fellow subscribers. All subscribers to the mailing list are part of the network community and thus either members or potential/yet-to-be-members of the network. Members have taken part in at least one online meeting.

Topics discussed are: blue (de)growth | blue justice | ocean imaginaries | blue economy | etc.

Subscribers are invited to share: articles | anecdotes | events | discussion questions | working group invitations | project ideas | etc.

Learn more about them here: https://degrowth.net/organisations/blue-degrowth-network/