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Post Growth is a catalyst for identifying, inspiring and implementing new approaches to global well-being.

We are an international network of people committed to tackling the cause, rather than the symptoms, of a myriad of social and environmental problems to create a positive world future that does not depend on economic growth.

Our aim is to create a movement of 10 million people who are convinced of the need for futures beyond economic growth, believe they are possible and feel inspired and supported enough to play a role in their emergence.

Learn more.

2016/05/262016/05/25

Donnie Maclurcan: The (En)Rich List A Wealth of Inspiration!

Design, Economics/True Cost, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience

The (En)Rich List celebrates a wealth of inspirational individuals. Collectively, the people highlighted throughout this website present a rich tapestry that points to globally prosperous and sustainable futures.

Seven of us from the Post Growth Institute spent months defining and refining this list. We were motivated by the way mainstream media often notes achievement: by celebrating material and monetary wealth. Take, for example, the Forbes Rich List, released each March, which showcases the world’s wealthiest billionaires.

For us, there are additional ways ‘richness’ can play out, be measured, and be celebrated. The people on this list represent wealth that cannot be defined by a dollar value. Learn more.

2016/05/262016/05/25

Michel Bauwens: Post-Capitalist Values?

P2P / Panarchy

2016/05/232016/05/23

Robert Steele: Open Source Governance – Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

#OSE Open Source Everything

Robert David Steele

Open Source Governance: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Robert Steele, Open Source Observatory (European Union), 23 May 2016

Open source solutions – primarily in software but increasingly also in hardware – cost roughly one tenth of proprietary offerings. The switch to open source software enables financial and public service scalability as well as quality sustainability at all levels of governance. Unfortunately this understanding is not widespread.

As we go forward in a world where software seems likely to impact on every public and private capability, there are seven questions to be considered by public administrators as well as private sector managers.

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2016/05/162016/05/15

Marcin Jakubowski: Open Source Imaging — $10K Instead of $1M

Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Materials, Science

Welcome to Open Source Medical Imaging. A prototype machine will be $10k in materials instead of $1M off the shelf, and first images are expected next year. Lukas has received a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant for this work, and just presented this at the world's largest MR conference.

Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2016/05/13

Gunther Sonnenfeld: Transition Truths

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Leadership, Officers Call, Strategy

Phi Beta Iota: We are glad to introduce a new contributing editor, a very big mind on the bleeding edge of evolutionary change toward creating a prosperous world at peace. His home page in cyberspace is http://exileleadership.com/.

Happy New Life

Welcoming constant transition, flipping the bird at time, and taking ownership of important life choices…

The following is a curated short-list of writings that reflect my commitment to possibility, through actions, experiments and ways to access the unknown unknowns.

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