Post Growth Ripples: February 2025
Read our recent stories and join the next public Offers and Needs Market.
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 Events
On Saturday, February 8th, we hosted an in-person Offers and Needs Market (OANM) in Ashland, OR
One participant, Pauline, who presented the Weave Care app during the session, shared:
“It was a pleasure to share about the app in a room full of people that believe and understand the importance of mutual aid. I was really moved by the various speakers & made some really potent connections.”
Find out more about the OANM and join our next public event.
Post Growth Stories
The relaunch of the Post Growth Alliance in 2024 demonstrated the power of organized, community efforts to “hack the algorithm” and uplift marginalized narratives — all without paying for ads or boost.
Over six months, we hosted a solidarity hub and social media cooperative with 28 organizations from around the world, reaching over 215,000 accounts and garnering +25,000 clicks across platforms. On LinkedIn alone, this translates to a click value of over $120,000. We are celebrating a year of renewed connection and over a decade of collectively hacking the algorithm. Thank you for your continued support!
We’re expanding our digital presence — join us on BlueSky or Mastodon to stay connected!
In Kalentzi, Greece, the Life After Growth summer school brings post-growth ideas to life through unlearning, co-relearning, and hands-on cooperative living.
In this two-part diary of her experience from 2024, former PGI team member, Rana Zein, reveals how participants explored alternatives to dominant economic models, experimenting with sociocracy, the commons, and place-based learning. As a practitioner from the Global South, Rana reflects on how the summer school fostered ways of learning that are deeply connected to local realities, cooperation, and sustainability to ground theory in practice.
