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Increasing Well-being Without Economic Growth
Objective: Enhance societal well-being and happiness through non-material means, focusing on social equity, environmental health, and quality of life beyond mere economic indicators.

Universal Basic Services: Guarantee public access to essential services, including education, healthcare, public transport, housing, food, and essential utilities to ensure a high quality of life independent of economic growth.

Reduced Workweek: Shorten the workweek to 3-4 days to distribute employment more equitably, aiming to decrease unemployment and give people more free time.

Job Guarantee: Create a federally funded but locally administered employment programme offering jobs to all, focusing on projects that yield social and environmental benefits, ensuring meaningful employment opportunities.

Basic Income: Establish a guaranteed minimum income for individuals unable to work or unemployed (looking at you, AI), securing a dignified standard of living for everyone.

Actively deconstruct current colonial relations between the Global South and the Global North
Objective: Objective: Rectify historical injustices and foster global equity, self-determination and economic independence, empowering Global South nations to pursue their developmental paths independently.

Debt Cancellation: Push for the cancellation of debts, particularly for countries in the Global South, to relieve economic constraints and allow for much-needed investment in public services.

Enhance Sovereignty: Support initiatives that increase Global South nations' monetary, food, and energy sovereignty—empowering regions to invest in their communities and lessen external dependencies.

End Resource Appropriation: Cease the extraction and appropriation of labour and natural resources from the Global South, ensuring these regions retain full benefits from their assets.

Ecological Reparations: Implement reparative measures including grants, debt cancellation and climate adaptation funding.

Trade and Monetary Reform: Transform trade, mining, and global monetary and financial systems to ensure fair practices and equitable opportunities for all nations.

Technology and Patent Reform: Facilitate technology transfer and rethink patent laws to promote innovation access, particularly benefiting countries in the Global South.

Reducing Material and Energy Used in Production and Consumption
Objective: Minimise the ecological footprint of goods and services, fostering sustainable, equitable and regenerative production and consumption patterns.

Scale Down Harmful Industries: Equitably reduce the size of industries harmful to the environment, like fossil fuels, industrial animal agriculture, and fast fashion.

End Planned Obsolescence: Encourage the design of durable, repairable products to reduce waste and extend product lifespans.

Cut Advertising: Reallocate advertising budgets towards promoting sustainable practices and cultural activities, reducing consumerism.

Shift to Usership: Encourage models of sharing and renting instead of ownership to lessen the demand for production and reduce waste.

Money Creation: Support the principle that governments, rather than banks, should be the primary creators of money to finance public goods and diminish inequality.

Co-operative Models: Advocate for businesses to adopt co-operative and steward-ownership models, prioritising community welfare and environmental sustainability over profits.

Income and Wealth Equality: Implement income and wealth equality measures, such as setting minimum and maximum wage limits, wage ratios and adopting progressive wealth taxation.

Fossil Fuel Treaty: Commit to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to drastically cut reliance on fossil fuels.

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Vom 9. bis 16. August treffen sich junge Menschen zwischen 18 und 26 auf 1100 Meter über Meer im Berner Oberland, um an ihren Projektideen zu Ökologie, Landschaft, Landwirtschaft, Biodiversität und Klima zu tüfteln. Begleitet werden sie dabei - auf Wunsch auch nach der Woche - von Fachpersonen. Die Teilnahme am Salvina-LAB ist kostenlos. Weiter Infos und das Bewerbungsformular findest du auf der Website www.salvinalab.ch. Instagram.

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At this event, part of this year's Sustainability Week Zurich, you will meet researchers, innovators and alumni from the ETH community who are working for sustainable development in a wide range of fields. We will tap into the power of storytelling to create connections and spark inspiration. You will hear the inspiring stories behind the speakers’ commitments to global sustainable development.

Time: 16 April, 17:00 - 19:00

Location: Student Project House, Clausiusstrasse 16, 8006 Zürich

To attend, please regsiter via this link.

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Stories have the power to move us, shift perspectives, and spark meaningful action. The event series “Storytelling to Inspire a Sustainable Future”, provides a stage for ETH students who are advancing the Sustainable Development Goals to share the personal journeys behind their commitment.

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"The Cost of Growth" Velokino

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 · 8:00 PM · Irchel Campus (Winterthurerstrasse 190, Gebäude Y10)

Firsthand accounts of resource extraction across Europe — a sharp look at the trade-offs between economic ambition, environmental impact, and community rights. Screening followed by an open discussion.

Part of Sustainability Week Zürich, hosted by AVETH Sustainability.

🎟️ Reserve your seat: kinema.com/events/The-Cost-of-Growth-ncmuiz

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About the film

The Cost of Growth follows climate activists Anuna De Wever and Lena Hartog as they travel through Italy, Serbia, and Sápmi, documenting grassroots resistance to extractivism. The film connects these local struggles with broader debates on war, justice, and democracy - showing how extractive violence is a form of structural warfare on communities and ecosystems.

Through intimate encounters with grassroots movements, the film weaves together voices from affected communities and leading thinkers-such as Fati N'Zi-Hassane, Vijay Prashad, Greta Thunberg and Jason Hickel - to interrogate who truly pays for growth, how growth is defended and how we move beyond.

This is a 100 % nonprofit project: funding raised through screenings is channelled back to campaigns on democratizing the economy and to support the communities and movements featured in the film.

Producer

Executive Producer

Anuna de Wever, Lena Hartog

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Screening - The Cost of Growth - Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM CEST

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Climanosco provides free access to high quality, accessible climate science and supports citizens and scientists to engage in communicating climate research.

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Doughnut Economics Circus by Kate Raworth | Battle for the Biosphere | One Planet Lab – DE

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Nature vs Finance — A theatrical economics showdown
Featuring Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, as your ringmaster for an unforgettable evening of economic rebellion, circus magic, and radical hope.

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Need to get something fixed? Check out the upcoming Repair Cafés all over Switzerland!

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Du möchtest einen Gegenstand reparieren und suchst ein Repair Café in deiner Nähe? Auf der Karte findest du alle aktiven Repair Cafés. Suche nach einem Repair Café in deiner Nähe, um alle anstehenden Veranstaltungen angezeigt zu bekommen. Die Einträge werden von den Repair Cafés selbst verwaltet. Solltest du dir nicht sicher sein, ob dein Gebrauchsgegenstand überhaupt repariert wird, dann frag am besten direkt beim Repair Café nach.

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Du möchtest einen Gegenstand reparieren und suchst ein Repair Café in deiner Nähe? Auf der Karte findest du alle aktiven Repair Cafés. Suche nach einem Repair Café in deiner Nähe, um alle anstehenden Veranstaltungen angezeigt zu bekommen. Die Einträge werden von den Repair Cafés selbst verwaltet.

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Movie screening "Six Inches of Soil" in pop-up cinemas all over Switzerland (Filme für die Erde mit WWF)

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Rethinking Economics Zurich: Grill Evening

19:00, place tba

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Rethinking Economics Zurich: General Assembly and Drinks at bQm

18:30, KO2-F-155

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Rethinking Economics Zurich: Talk on Global Warming with Debjani Bhattacharyya and Tobias Straumann

18:30, KO2-F-153

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by Rethinking Economics (VWelles) Bern

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Food Save Lunch at Aki (Zurich)

Our free weekly lunch program mainly from food that would otherwise be thrown away, with which we strive to contribute to a systemic change by cultivating a more holistically sustainable, prudent and caring attitude towards our given resources and towards each other. Bring hunger and a Tupperware, in case there are leftovers. The motto is: first comes, first serve.

With our donations we support changing social and ecological projects.

For those interested: Join the Food Waste Lunch WhatsApp group by clicking this link.

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Ausstellung im Stadthaus und Rahmenprogramm

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Zürich zirkulär. Zukunft mit Kreislaufwirtschaft

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Ausstellungen zu gesellschaftspolitischen Themen der Stadt Zürich

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Degrowing Switzerland? - Panel Discussion

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Degrowing Switzerland? - Panel Discussion

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Rethinking Food as a Commons - Panel Discussion

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Rethinking Food as a Commons - Panel Discussion

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Rethinking Food as a Commons - Panel Review

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Planetary Boundaries in Cities (Role-Play)

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Planetary Boundaries in Cities (Role-Play)

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Post-Growth Agrifood Systems

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Growth and Structural Change in Swiss Agriculture

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Growth and Structural Change in Swiss Agriculture

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Sustainable Agrifood Systems for a Post Growth World

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Sustainable Agrifood Systems for a Post Growth World

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Problems of the Economic Growth Paradigm in Switzerland

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Problems of the Economic Growth Paradigm in Switzerland

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Every Monday 17:00-19:00: Reading Sessions by Arvae centering decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology

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Podcasts

Beyond the Fix: Julia Steinberger on Fixing the Economy with Green Growth by Critical Scientists Switzerland

Circular Metabolism Podcast by Aristide Athanassiadis (English and French)

Planet: Critical by Rachel Donald

Degrowing Healthcare

The Thermodynamics of Degrowth

Debunking Green Growth

Postgrowth City Podcast

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

The Future is Local: Bioregioning 101

The Myths Shaping Our Economies

Why True Wealth Means More Than Money

Future Histories International

Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries

Spannungsfelder: Irmi Seidl - Wachstum, und dann? | Umwelt und Konsum

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Movies, Documentaries and Videos

Could 'degrowth' save the world? (21min)

Participative Supermarkets (4min)

How to Save the Planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth? (93min)

Free Food for All? Valuing Food as a Commons (80min)

Tax Wars: Krieg der Steuern (in German) (94min)

The economics of happiness (65min)

Life after growth (25min)

Fairytales of growth (47min)

Monbiot vs Savory debate (90min)

Kaufen für die Müllhalde: Geplante Obsoleszenz (in German) (74min)

Food Coop (Trailer)

Scars of growth (Trailer)

Outgrow the system (Trailer)

Priceless forests (Trailer)

This Changes Everything (Trailer, 97min)

Oeconomia: Spielregeln des Kapitalismus - ein Aufklärungsfilm über den Zusammenhang zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum, Verschuldung und Vermögenskonzentration. (German, 1h 23min)

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Courses

Wellbeing Economy Policy: This course takes you on a world tour to see how governments are putting wellbeing economy principles into practice. Whether working at a local, regional or (inter)national level, you’ll be equipped and inspired with tools and examples to help drive holistic, inclusive and sustainable policy development.

Games

Postgrowth Toolkit: Artist- and scientist-made board game to help us "reshuffle our world-views through a compilation of stories, concepts and tactics in order to stimulate new modes of understanding in the context of current environmental crises"

Repair Cafes

Find a repair cafe in your area and fix your broken stuff!

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Articles & Reports

About anti-colonial politics of degrowth

About imperialist appropriation of resources

By Disaster or Design: How finance can evolve to avoid the worst of the ecological challenges we face and enable the transition to a better economic model

Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?

Holism and the reconstitution of everyday life: a framework for transition to a sustainable society

How Unequal Exchange Shapes Our World

Identifying leverage points in the social housing system: Housing associations on the path towards degrowth?

On non-reformist reforms and partial political settlements in degrowth strategy (Giuseppe Feola, former Deep Dive speaker)

Books

Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Robin Wall Kimmerer)

Die Vier-in-einem-Perspektive (Frigga Haug)

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Jason Hickel)

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Kohei Saito)

Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can Save the Earth (Kohei Saito)

Slow Down or Die (Timothée Parrique) (he was once panelist at one of our panels)

Tätig sein in einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft (Irmi Seidl, Angelika Zahrnt)

This Changes Everything (Naomi Klein)

Towards Convivial Sciences (Ephraim Pörtner, Tamara Lebrecht) (Ephraim was once speaker at a Deep Dive)

Escape from Capitalism - An Intervention (Clara E. Mattei)

The Future is Degrowth - A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism (Matthias Schmelzer)

Databases

Degrowth Database

Postwachstumvortragsreihe Archiv

Explore Degrowth

Degrowth Policies

Zürich Unbezahlbar: free and non-commercial infrastructure and events in Zurich

Newsletters

Matt Orsagh shares well-reflected, critical and often philosophical thoughts on degrowth

Kyla Scanlon (creates accessible and fun economics education for current and future generations; rather US-centric but still highly relevant)

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March 2026

December 2025

November 2025

October 2025

September 2025

June 2025 - Special Event Announcement

29 May 2025

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30 April 2025

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Have you ever wondered what your life would look like if we stopped chasing endless economic growth and started focusing on what truly matters? Imagine a world with more community, equality, democracy, abundance, and thriving ecosystems.🌸

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The SAE Greenhouse Art-Lab is a space for exchange and collaboration at the intersection of food, art, and agroecology. It brings together artists, researchers, activists, and practitioners connected to the work of the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group. Together, we explore agroecology and engage in collective efforts to transform food and agricultural systems in sustainable ways.

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SAE Greenhouse - Sustainable Agroecosystems Group Greenhouse Lab

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Here are some partner organisations that follow similar principles. As our group and many of the organizations named below act voluntarily in their free time, it is important to pool resources for events, institutionalization and other ambitions.

Please reach out to us if you are interested in a collaboration!

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The One Planet Lab supports and promotes players who develop and implement sustainable solutions for the future.

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One Planet Lab – DE | Projektunterstützung für Nachhaltigkeitspioniere

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Das One Planet Lab – DE fördert Pioniere mit ressourcenschonende Lösungen. Mit Effizienz, Konsistenz & Suffizienz zu einer nachhaltigen Schweiz.

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Degrowth Switzerland is an organisation dedicated to improving wellbeing through fostering discussion of post-growth possibilities within Switzerland.

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A good life for all within ecological limits

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Degrowth Switzerland is an organisation dedicated to improving wellbeing through fostering discussion of post-growth possibilities within Switzerland.

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Our friends from RE Zurich fight for a pluralist, critical and realistic economics education at the University of Zurich.

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Rethinking Economics Zurich - Rethinking Economics Switzerland

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Get in touch Our Board Elaine BA Sociology, Minor Economics Lea MA Political Philosophy and Economics, Minor Economics Norma MA Sociology, Minor Economics Tiberius BA Economics, Minor Statistics and Applied Probability Mara BA Sociology, Minor Economics Raphael BA Political Science, Minor Economics Tomaso BA Economics, Minor Mathematics

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We are a group of curious minds who believe that infinite growth on a finite planet is simply impossible. Together, we explore how moving beyond economic growth can enhance human and planetary well-being while learning and practicing innovative ideas that offer hopeful and sustainable alternatives to the outdated growth paradigm.

We have an active core of organizers surrounded by a broader community which is joining our events and reading our newsletter. We emerged from academia (ETH Zürich) but are open to anyone who is interested in exploring alternative models of organizing society in a growth-independent way, also beyond Switzerland!

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What does it mean to look beyond growth?

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What does it mean to look beyond growth?

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At the core of our activities originally was the Deep Dive, a regular guest lecture on ideas, practices and research of a post-growth world, happening at ETH and online. In the meantime, we started hosting further events centered around growth-independence, like food-sharings, panel discussions, and social events to see what it's like to actually live beyond growth. Currently, we are also working on institutionalizing more growth-criticism in the ETH curriculum and establishing a network with various researchers, activists and like-minded partner-organizations (see "Our friends" section) to expand the discourse. Last but not least, we are hoping to grow a joyful and curious community and are always open for new contributors!

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Our goal is to spark the discussion about economic growth dependence and its adverse consequences for our food systems, equality, healthcare, education, ecology and much more. At the same time, we aim to build a community and a discourse around learning, enacting and spreading ideas and practices of growth independence in society. We want to explore a world beyond growth - with openness, respect, care, empathy and fun!