The #UN University published their #InterconnectedRisks Report: It's a theory about how we can #change our world for sustainable living (and why it is possible): https://interconnectedrisks.org/

When I had the idea for my podcast about #ReconnectingWithNature, a lot of people laughed at it. Now I find this #mindshift again and even some #solarpunk ideas like #care, #humility, #sufficiency https://interconnectedrisks.org/2025/theory-of-deep-change Well, let's start to work on a better world, and fight this minority of destroyers! 1/2

#carbon #sufficiency #abundance #Environment #Health
How to build a world around sufficiency or "frugal abundance"

https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-world-around-sufficiency

"Many politicians do not dare to tackle sufficiency because they are afraid of being punished at the next election," said Jonas Lage, research associate at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. "Yet, there are examples at many political levels of successful, smoothly functioning sufficiency policies with a high level of approval."

#Sufficiency #ClimateAction

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/sufficiency-strategy-sorely-needed-germany-tackle-energy-transition-faster-and-lower-cost-report

#EU #RejoinEU #Bollox2Brexit #Benefit #Budget #Economics #Farming for the best under the radar 'official' news #FarmingToday can't be beat. Very quietly #Reeves #Starmer have withdrawn the #SFI #Sustainable #Farming #Initiative . A post #brexit measure designed to compensate #farmers for losing #EU support for #Green initiatives. So, another two pledges gone. Not #green and no #sufficiency . Ain't the a lying pair of cunning stunts eh?

The second session of our 3-year Study Circle on Degrowth & Exnovation (co-organized with Kristiina Visakorpi) is now open to all for registration! Join us in Finland to explore and discuss how to build resilient communities in the midst of collapse, while dismantling the fossil capitalist economy.

https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/

How are people organizing locally along degrowth principles of sufficiency and conviviality? What challenges do we face, and what tactics can we pursue in establishing ways of living that allow dismantling of harmful organizations, infrastructure, technologies and ideas, that contribute to extractivism and fossil capitalism?

Suggested themes of discussion include initiatives for convivial community-based leisure (let's turn airports into natural recreation areas!), paths towards nowtopias, municipal organizing, neo-ruralism, defense of the commons, convivial conservation, unlearning high-tech and promoting low-tech, among many others.

The session will be part of the Nordic Summer University's summer session, including 8 concurrent study circles on other super-cool topics, which you can also attend: https://www.nsuweb.org/activities/summer-session/

#Degrowth #Sufficiency #Conviviality #Exnovation #Postgrowth #Finland #Conservation #Community #LowTech

@AudreyBras @growth_kills @IDN @channel @SanjaHakala

Watching Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy on Netflix. Compulsory viewing for all.

Using a #LinuxPhone (such as #Jolla 's C2) as daily driver is a little exercise in #sufficiency. Do I really need this service or functionality at my fingertips at all times? Can it not wait until I am at a computer again? Is it necessary at all? Useful to reflect on how much mobile phone is in fact sufficient!

A quotation from Horace

Hence comes it that the man is rarely seen
Who owns that his a happy life has been,
And, thankful for past blessings, with good will
Retires, like one who has enjoyed his fill.
 
[Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 117ff (1.1.117-119) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/14007/

A quotation from Cicero

If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want.
 
[Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Familiares [Letters to Friends], Book 9, Letter 4, sec. 1 (9.4.1), to Marcus Terentius Varro (46 BC) [tr. Williams (Loeb) (1928)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

«
If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want.
 
[Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/43635/

Re #degrowth #sufficiency #climateDiary

Revisiting ‘future fit’.

What do others think? See the linked thread for context.

I like that it’s both aspirational and encodes a warning. I like that it’s contingent upon the conditions constantly emerging.

Let me know your thoughts
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112156480528317340

« Bread » by Anastasia Trusova

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/741806027241111552/bread-by-anastasia-trusova-artists-instagram

#arts #artshare #paintings #AnastasiaTrusova @atrusovaartist @amtrusova #flourishing #sunsets #sufficiency

Wow Our paper "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" that we published just over a year ago (Sept 2023) has now been downloaded a mind-blowing half a million times.

It demonstrates the enormous importance of considering the stability of Earth as a whole. We're destabilising our planet in more ways than just climate. We really, really do have to get our act together. #Sufficiency

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

@PIK_climate

'Sufficiency is a whole-of-government approach that aims to create the structural change needed for societies to consume less overall. It also seeks to ensure wellbeing for all people, not just the affluent'.

Less is more

Unlike efficiency, sufficiency calls for reducing demand & tackling overconsumption & living responsibly on Earth

#Sufficiency #Limits #climatechange #ClimateDiary

https://scroll.in/article/1073938/

It was a huge pleasure today to give a talk on #Sufficiency and #EcologicalDemocracy at the Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor, having been invited by @FranziskaTanneberger (who, by the way, is an excellent choice for the prestigious German Environment Award!).

Before the lecture, and a very interesting tour of the facilities, I had a chance to see the protected coastal mire areas of the Succow Foundation, the Karrendorfer Wiesen: Impressive skies, fall colours, and a myriad of shapes.

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What can I do in this time, in #Lethbridge? Support this or that business, the Farmer’s Market, or eat at this or that restaurant, buy organic food... Do my dollars help in fact to build a community where everyone can live convivial lives, with fair wages a good quality of life . I am just one human being, but surely I do quantitatively affect the atmosphere, abundance, sufficiency, & sustainability, with every little choice I make #SupportLocal #UBI #Sufficiency #BuenVivir

The city of #Dresden this afternoon.

I'll be giving a talk on #sufficiency, and debating sufficiency with fellow panelists, in just a bit.

The waters of the Elbe river are high, and rising, after the recent massive rainfall extremes further upriver. Since parts of one of the city's main river bridges collapsed a few days ago (luckily in the middle of the night, nobody was hurt) the salvage crews are working hard to clear major debris from the projected floodwater's path.

Exactly a year ago today, our big update of the Planetary Boundaries Framework was published.

It quantified for the first time all 9 planetary boundaries, showed that 6 of 9 are currently transgressed, some substantially, and redefined and refined a few.

The paper has been downloaded a mind-blowing 473.439 times since then. That's an unbelievably large number for a scientific paper.

Let's draw the conclusions.
We need to re-stabilise .
#Sufficiency
@PIK_climate

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458