Post-Growth Collage by Post-Growth Singapore

Collectively-held Commons

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People have the right to access the things they need to survive. Resources are stewarded by communities rather than under private control. E.g. Community land trusts, sovereign wealth funds and shared infrastructure.

Universal Basic Services

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Essential services that meet basic needs are nationalised and provided collectively as a foundation available to everyone. This returns people’s autonomy and dignity, while reducing inequality and anxiety.

Gifting, Sharing & Self-Production

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Repair Cafes, tool libraries, makerspaces, community gardens, open-source tools, enhance what people can do and make to meet needs. Mutual aid and sharing also strengthen community bonds and resilience.

Integral Education

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Learning is holistic and grounded in the challenges of our time. It builds the capacity to imagine, to care, to build community, to be critical and resilient, to serve the common good and drive lasting sustainability.

Extraction Cap and Tax

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Setting a hard limit on resource extraction, aligned with planetary boundaries. Paired with taxes so that the true cost of extraction is internalised and revenue is redirected towards socio-ecological regeneration.

Legislate the Rights of Nature

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This will mean that destroying nature requires justification beyond economic benefit and can be challenged in court by appointed guardians. Nature becomes a rights-bearing subject with an enforceable claim to exist and thrive.

Convivial Technologies

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Technologies that are designed to empower our human capacity to care, to sustain and to build. They are also understandable, repairable and widely accessible, rather than owned and controlled by the few.

Cooperatives and Social Enterprises

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Workers and communities hold decision-making power over how things are made and run. Production serves people's real needs rather than maximising profit, and any surplus is reinvested in people and place.

Circular Economy

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Material value is maintained and circulated through repair, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling, to minimise waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) encourages companies to design, finance and manage product circularity.

Emissions Cap and Tax

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A legally binding, science-based ceiling on total emissions is progressively lowered over time regardless of market conditions. Emission costs are built into taxation, and the revenue is returned to climate-vulnerable groups.

Local Permaculture

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Permaculture works with natural systems to build healthy soil, support biodiversity and grow diverse food. It builds food sovereignty, community resilience and connection to land. Related examples: agroecology, food forests and regenerative farming.

Plant-based diets

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Shifting towards diverse, local, culturally rooted plant-based food traditions dramatically reduces the land, water and energy usage of industrial fishing and animal agriculture, and free space for nature to recover.

Relocalisation

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Deliberate shortening of supply chains for essential goods by supporting local production and markets. This builds community agency, strengthens self-sufficiency and deepens connection to the bioregion.

Socially Empowering Advertising

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Reorienting media towards surfacing cooperative behaviours, modelling sufficiency lifestyles, celebrating repair and sharing, deepening social and ecological relationships, and cultivating desire for the common good.

Lifestyles of Sufficiency

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Making slow living, gift economies and voluntary simplicity visible and appealing. This emphasises more time, connection and agency, and less material attachments. The ‘good life’ is no longer defined by what you consume.

Creative Commons

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Knowledge flows freely across communities, disciplines and generations rather than being locked behind licences and legal threats. This shares ideas and capabilities rather than maximising dividends from intellectual property.

Right to Repair

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Producers are legally required to design repairable products and make spare parts accessible. Paired with durability standards and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this makes products last longer and reduces waste.

Price Controls

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This caps the price of essential goods and services such as housing, energy, food staples and medicine, and protects people from being priced out of a dignified life.

Regenerative Finance

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Capital is directed toward ecological regeneration and social resilience through community development funds, cooperative lending, public green investment banks and outcomes-based public funding.

Progressive Tax on Wealth

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By taxing wealth and capital gains more equitably, money is redirected into public infrastructure, and extreme wealth accumulation and power concentration is kept in check.

Fair Taxation

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Progressive taxes, land value taxes, levies on extractive industries, and international cooperation to close offshore loopholes, all restore governments’ ability to fund public investments and reduce dependency on private providers..

Public and Cooperative Banking

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Credit unions, mutual savings banks and public development banks offer affordable, patient lending for housing, small businesses, cooperatives, ecological restoration and public investment.

Minimum Living Wages

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This sets a floor that ensures all workers can cover their basic needs. It makes dignity a non-negotiable condition rather than a market outcome. More money in workers’ pockets often flows back into local economies.

Job Sharing

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Spreading available work across more people can shorten working hours and open more time for care, rest, creativity and civic life. It also cushions communities against job losses from automation.

Equitable sharing of care work

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Care work is collectively valued and shared across genders, households, and public institutions through parental leave, public care services and cultural change. Everyone has the option to participate more fully in working and public life.