Doing Business in a Degrowth Economy

The fifth of the #NoBackToNormal #degrowthtalks series exploring how to do business in a degrowth economy with Oli Sylvester Bradley, Ashish Kothari and Juliet Schor. In this session, we talk to our panel of practitioners and thinkers of alternative economic practices. We will discuss how across the world, post-capitalist forms of production, work and enterprise are changing the world, right now.

Oli Sylvester Bradley is a co-founder of The Open Co-op and the Open Credit Network, co-inventor of the Murmurations protocol for the cooperative economy, founder of ethical jobs site Elevator Cafe and of the campaign group Economic Rebellion. He specialises in communications and marketing strategies which encourage a more just and sustainable world. He runs The Open Co-op’s annual two-day conference in London on platform co-ops to encourage the development of open, co-operative organisations which are owned and managed by their members. From 2005 to 2011 he worked as the Marketing Manager of Solarcentury and helped initiate the UK solar feed-in tariff with the We Support Solar campaign. He currently supports SolarAid with their marketing.
Twitter:   / defactodesign  

Ashish Kothari is founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan process, served on Greenpeace International and India Boards, helped initiate the global ICCA Consortium. He participated in people’s movements including Narmada Bachao Andolan; helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam and Global Tapestry of Alternatives processes and Radical Ecological Democracy network. He has (co)authored or (co)edited many books, including Churning the Earth: Making of Global India (with Aseem Shrivastava), Alternative Futures: India Unshackled (ed., with KJ Joy), and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (ed., with Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta).
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chikikothari?s=20

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Schor’s research focuses on consumption, time use, and environmental sustainability. She is author of the New York Times Bestseller 'The Overworked American'. Her new book 'After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back' (UC Press) will be published in September 2020. Schor is currently researching the “connected economy,” via a series of case studies of sharing platforms and their participants. She is also studying the relation between working hours, inequality and carbon emissions.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulietSchor?s=20

Moderators: Oliver Bream McIntosh (on screen) and Katharina Richter (off screen)
RESOURCES:
Degrowth Vienna 2020 Conference Solidarity Statement with Black Lives Matter   / 1  
Kothari, Demaria and Acosta, 'Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to Sustainable Development and the Green Economy', https://kalpavriksh.org/wp-content/up...

Kothari, ‘Corona can’t save the planet, but we can, if we learn from ordinary people’, Interface, 17.4.2020, https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-c...

Vikalp Sangam, 'Extraordinary Work of 'Ordinary People: Beyond Pandemics and Lockdowns', http://www.vikalpsangam.org/article/e...

Kothari, 'The search for radical alternatives', http://www.vikalpsangam.org/article/t....

Mutual credit and Open Credit https://opencredit.network/
https://opencredit.network/mutual-cre...
https://opencredit.network/2020/02/11...

Economic Rebellion https://economicrebellion.org/

Juliet Schor - What if a Shrinking Economy Wasn't a Disaster? https://daily.jstor.org/what-if-a-shr...

Schor and Jorgenson - Is it too late for growth? and follow up in the debate https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.bc... https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.bc...

Connected Consumption and Connected Economy project https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mca...

Schor Schumacher Lecture on Plenitude (print and Youtube versions) https://centerforneweconomics.org/pub...    • The New Economics of Plentitude - Juliet S...  

Global Tapestry of Alternatives https://www.globaltapestryofalternati...
Vikal Sangam www.vikalpsangam.org
Radical Ecological Democracy https://www.radicalecologicaldemocrac...


Degrowth Vienna 2020 Conference YouTube Channel    / @degrowthvienna