Post Growth Ripples: April 2025
How our work is rippling out around the world this month.
Our mission at the Post Growth Institute is to uplift, co-design, and model approaches that equitably and innately circulate money and power in our local communities and global economy. Each month we publish an overview of our key activities and impact through the various pillars of our work.
Post Growth Stories
The Post Growth Fellowship returns for 2025! We’re thrilled to introduce the fourth cohort of Post Growth Fellows. From April to November, we journey with an inspiring cohort of 26 researchers, creatives, activists, and community organizers as they share bold, grounded examples of life beyond capitalism. Follow us on Medium at Post Growth Perspectives for the latest insights and/or subscribe to our monthly newsletter recap.
Already, fellows have shared touching stories on the impact of the post-growth community online.
FPAR Academy (Post Growth Alliance member), is an online learning platform for feminist education and activism. Inspired by the PGI’s Offers and Needs Market, they have provided an “alternative exchange model” to reduce participation barriers for those interested in their Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) Foundational Course.
The Offers and Needs Market also makes an appearance on Peerpace’s 2025 list of “14 Unique Breakout Session Ideas.”
In Mint Magazine’s latest issue, Donnie Maclurcan (PGI Director of Strategy) offers a guide to philanthropic organizations on how they might improve their game in today’s world where growth can be sidelined and the C-word banned.
Post Growth Events
The Post Growth Alliance is off to a strong start with offerings from Culture Hack Labs and PINE: Plataforma de Introducción a Nuevas Economías!
Culture Hack Lab is hosting its next informational session on the Rhizome Fellowship in May — register here. PINE just closed its registration for the last iteration of their university-backed diploma program in New Economies with a Latin American perspective.
Meanwhile, our allies at ten (The Emergence Network) are inviting friends and strangers alike to participate in Becoming Water — a commonwealth fundraising campaign to support their postactivist experiments and endeavors. The money raised will go to funding their seasonal festival, Liquid Cartographies: Reshaping the Banks of the Possible; growing their core operations team and continuing to nurture a mycelial commons of translocal co-practice with An Infection, a fellowship of cracks. Become-water by making a gift of any size or becoming a monthly contributor here. If you’d prefer to make a tax-deductible donation to a 501(c)3 in the United States, please give via the every[dot]org platform here.
In other online spaces, Priscilla Trinh (PGI Director of Communications) had the opportunity to share insights alongside other degrowth advocates on a panel hosted by Vote Solar. The session focused on the role degrowth and post growth play in just energy transitions in the US. Audience members came away with a clearer vision of what wellbeing economies could offer for energy system policy-making and advocacy.
Donnie also provided a virtual presentation on Economic Sustainability to the Southern Oregon University Sustainability Curriculum Initiative.
Additionally, Donnie provided post-growth consultancy to a group of advocates hosting a “Reframing Climate” workshop in collaboration with the Post Carbon Institute (Post Growth Alliance member). Priya Chandra, a core organizer, said of the pro-bono consultation:
The exercise you shared was incredibly helpful, it gave us a powerful way to ground people in the space and set a meaningful tone :)
