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We identify many local activities as furthering degrowth principles and list them here with links/contact for more details. Castlemaine Permaculture FB page, in as much as it encourages connection, sharing, and learning permaculture sustainability practices/skills — https://www.facebook.com/groups/445686212227432 Castlemaine Seed Library (2016–), located in the Castlemaine Library, in as much as it generates a borrow–grow–save–return cycle […]

Castlemaine Free University (CFU) is a forum for discussing contemporary social and ecological issues of special interest for those living in Leanganook, Mount Alexander Shire, and Central Victoria more generally. CFU belongs to a free university movement, which started in the 1960s. The ‘free’ refers to running activities that are as free as possible in

Collective sufficiency is providing for all our essential needs in interconnected, inclusive and collective ways. Collective sufficiency is co-governing, co-planning and co-designing such provisioning by working together and as delegated then sharing the goods and services on the basis of our various needs.  Peter Yates on Farming Fridays — Farming Fridays moves between farms in

Commoning and collective sufficiency go hand-in-hand. A much used – and, therefore, abused – word, what do we mean by ‘commoning’? Commoning is about relations of respect and sharing between people and between people and Earth. In a practical sense commoning refers to co-governance of the shared use of, responsibility for, and benefits from defined

Glocalism means applying universal or global principles locally in everyday practices. We want to develop and follow ecologically sustainable, and politically and economically just, principles and practices. Here we suggest that glocalism means interacting and networked communities that are as collectively sufficient as possible. DCV is committed to exploring our various landscapes and how to