Ground-breaking news on two fronts: Girona is the first city in Spain to explore degrowth AND a master’s of degrowth programme is going to be delivered alongside the municipal administration.
An agreement has just been signed between the City Council, the University of Girona, Dark Matter Labs and Research & Degrowth International (R&D), which produces the degrowth master’s at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The aim is to turn Girona into a small laboratory for post-growth policies and for 2/3 of the master’s work to be carried out in Girona working alongside the city administration.
The objective is to analyse the areas of municipal government where it is necessary to reduce investments, according to an environmental logic, and assess how the city is facing resource and energy constraints.
This is a big step forward in degrowth, moving from a theoretical debate to a practical practice at scale.
Image by Mathias Reding on Unsplash
Heliocene 