Updates sent in from the various circles that make up the IDN as well as individual IDN members, with lots of opportunities to get involved!![]()
📚 Book Club
Next Book: REMAKE THE WORLD: ESSAYS. REFLECTIONS, REBELLIONS by Astra Taylor! Access the book here (external link)
Meeting Info: TBD currently taking a poll! Join the Matrix room and vote for your preferred date.
Reading expectation: Try to finish the book before the meeting (but you're welcome even if you've only read part of it!).
For more information on how to access the book, and meeting times, join the Book Club room on Matrix (external link)![]()
🧪 Research Circle
- Webinars are being planned. Stay tuned for more info!!
- The circle will present at the Oslo Assembly.
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🔁 Transformative Learning Circle
Developing activities and gathering resources for the Transformative Learning framework.![]()
🤝 Practice Circle
The circle has been working in creating partnerships and collaborations:
- First official collaboration of IDN with Re-Action listed on our site (external link). Presentation of business case in Oslo
- Organizing panel at Next Economies (external link) to showcase of degrowth-align business models and actions
- Collections of information about groups that put degrowth into practice to be added to our website
- Developing first framework for our Policies and Politics pillar
- Working on degrowth-aligned personal lifestyle initiatives
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🏛️ Organising Circle
Big News: The statutes were approved in France, IDN is now a legal entity in France unlocking new opportunities to IDN like being able to receive funds, sponsor visas...! ![]()
🎉Also...
- The Online part of the 2025 International Assembly successfully concluded on April 24. Reflections and outcomes here: Oslo Assembly 2025 | International Degrowth Network (external link)
- Onboarding more than 40 individuals to the IDN in the last 2 months. Managing the funds to support individuals attending conference in Oslo. Support overall IDN where most needed: Events funds, assembly, taking over Degrowth World mailing list. Currently updating the IDN Handbook
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💻 Tech Circle Enhancing resilience (evaluating new DNS / email / hosting providers) and working on shared calendar experiences
✊ Activism Circle
Focus is on organizing Global Degrowth Day (external link)on 7th June. Register your action in our website for a global mapping of events.
📝 Comms
Very strong development of the circle to increase online presence. Focus on strategy to reach target groups: labour unions, adjacent social movements, political parties/policy makers. Also our inner circles actions.
- Website: improve general structure keeping info up-to-date as per IDN needs: assembly, global degrowth day, events funds, explore Degrowth. Also improvements in the back like SEO, analytics
- Social media: keep the pace of publishing once a week
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🌍 Global South Circle
- Continuing the Beyond Degrowth series with cafés and diverse formats. Support here required.
- Some of the thesis (external link) that came out of the latest cohort of the degrowth
- Created a Substack for Global South voices (essays & blogs)
- Supporting the Delinking Group with calls and session coordination for upcoming conference
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📅 Events Circle
Reviving efforts to support Degrowth events!
- Call closed on May 15: Received 54 applications from 21 countries
- Currently reviewing, results to be announced on June 15
- Total fund to be distributed: €7,500
🔵 Continental Circles
Europe Circle Upcoming webinar: The Rights of Nature
North America Held a reactivation meeting on April 21 with 12 attendees. Recurrent meeting now 3rd Monday each month at 3pm EDT
Latin America (LatAm) Actively seeking new members
Asia Circle Hosted discussion on the role of religious groups in the environmental movement (10 attendees). Next meeting
Social Media Diffusion
Member organisations! If you are posting about an event on instagram, tag us and we will repost to stories ![]()
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📝 IDN Blog
We invite member organizations to share updates, reflections, and resources on the IDN Blog (external link)!![]()
📫 Send blog entries to: info@degrowth.net (external link)
Include:
- Author name (person or organization)
- At least one image
- Details regarding how the author can be contacted
We hope that this will allow member organisations to share learning, pose questions and start conversations across the Network.
Become a part of something bigger (and smaller)
The IDN represents a critical step towards uniting the degrowth movement in these rapidly evolving times. Your participation, whether as an individual or an organisation, strengthens our collective voice and impact. Together, we can forge a path toward a just, sustainable world.
Got questions? Like what you hear? Wanna get more involved? Feel free to respond to this email and someone will point you in the right direction.
With care and solidarity,
The IDN Team