Our vision is of an economy transformed. We want an economy that’s within Earth’s limits, that’s truly democratic, participative and public, where work and business are transformed, and that embodies the core values of sufficiency, care and empathy, equality and inclusiveness, and autonomy. This vision is set out in our paper 7 Sparks to Light …
The disease of over-consumption, and how to treat it
Climate crisis is the symptom, Overconsumption is the disease With the European Environmental Bureau and the European Youth Forum, we have launched a new animated scrolling webpage to raise awareness of, and pose concrete solutions to, systemic EU overconsumption. Overconsumption is a giant hole in the European Green Deal and the interrelated EU environmental and …
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Manifesto for a green, just and democratic European economy
More than 270 civil society organisations, think tanks, trade unions, academics and employers have come together to support this manifesto calling for fundamental reform of the EU’s fiscal rules. We need to scrap outdated rules that put a cap on public spending, and instead reform rules so that they help to fully achieve an environmentally …
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New year, new economy?
To start this new year, we’re introducing our vision for an economy transformed. We need an altogether new kind of economy, and we’ve developed 7 transformational ideas for Europe to bring about a life-sustaining economy within Earth’s limits. The economy is designed, and we can redesign it! We want to inspire action to wholly transform …
7 Sparks to Light a New Economy
The economy is designed, and we can redesign it! – transformational ideas for a life-sustaining economy within Earth’s limits With our European network in 32 countries, Friends of the Earth Europe has developed 7 transformational ideas for a new economy for Europe. We hope it will inspire action to wholly transform the current dominant growth-based, …
Abandoning capitalism is a necessity, not a utopia
Renda Belmallem has worked for 6 months at Focus/Friends of the Earth Slovenia and has now returned to her home country France. Here she reflects on the recent ‘Post-Growth 2018 Conference’ in the European Parliament from the perspective of the Degrowth movement. In case you ever wondered why the European Commission doesn’t give up building …
