Archive - The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine

Defying savage commands: Critical thinking as harm reduction

In a short YouTube video, EU citizens were asked to name the biggest problem facing their country.

22 hrs ago • Graham Janz

December 2025

The apparent uncrackability of neoliberalism

John Duncan is an associate fellow at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study (SAS).

Dec 30, 2025 • Vlad Bunea and John Duncan

Prevention of unecological fires as an opportunity to restore rural self-esteem and shared prosperity

This text is the result of a six-week journey in a training program with one of the best fire-prevention experts and forest lovers in the world. Fire is…

Dec 27, 2025 • Alan Fortuny Sicart

A Christmas carol revisited, or forming broad alliances

Once upon a Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the ghost of his partner, Jacob Marley, wearing “the chain he forged in life” by his…

Dec 24, 2025 • Arwen Spicer

Durabilidad/ Durability

Consumismo y decrecimiento/ Consumerism and degrowth

Dec 21, 2025 • Gisela Ruiseco

Climate change, resistance, and doing the right thing now

No amount of intellectualising is going to change the fact that our climate is thermodynamically fucked.

Dec 18, 2025 • A Quiet Resistance

Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto

Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto

Dec 15, 2025 • Housing Degrowth

First, do no harm…if you can avoid it.

I’m not a doctor, and I likely never will be because I’m not sure I believe it’s possible to follow the maxim “do no harm” in today’s world.

Dec 12, 2025 • Lily Edelman-Gold

Post-growth fashion

Katia Dayan Vladimirova is a former researcher with fifteen years of academic experience in climate ethics and politics and a special focus on social…

Dec 9, 2025 • Vlad Bunea and Katia Dayan Vladimirova

Wayfinding and sense-making in a fractured world

Many of my friends are now in the 30-something club and facing many of the same existential questions about life and our place in it.

Dec 6, 2025 • Shane Tierney

Equality matters

When we say that we want equality, what do we mean?

Dec 3, 2025 • Vlad Bunea

November 2025

Working class, climate crisis, capitalism

Vladimir Borțun holds a PhD in political science from the University of Portsmouth (2015-2019).

Nov 30, 2025 • Vlad Bunea and Vladimir Bortun

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