(🇮🇹 Versione in italiano qui sopra ⤴️)

📍La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
🗓️ 20–24 August 2025

🫶🏻 Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:

• 🌻 Social and Environmental Justice
• 🌱 Degrowth and local/global economy
• 👾 Political Technology and resistance to Technofeudalism–with @dario from @fsfe, @wikimediaitalia, and many others)
• 🧠 Education and learning

🔋 The Program

• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.

👉🏻 If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, ⚠️ open until July 20! ⤵️

✨ We’re looking forward to meet you! ✨

(boosts are welcome)

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What does a sustainable internet look like in a successful degrowth scenario? Where we're massively reducing the energy and resources going into luxury production, to make sure everyone has the essentials of life.

Are computers even part of this picture? Or do we regress to something like ham radio as our inter-bioregion communication tool?

#DeGrowth

It's easy to see what a terrible mess we are in.

Some have called it the 'polycrisis', a confluence of breakdowns in the environment, the climate, and in our social and political structures. The future certainly looks grim.

But there is a way out. It won't be easy, and it may not happen at all, but it is possible...

Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, according to an international research team.

Their report, published in the journal Planetary Health, found the planet's ability to provide and protect is being stretched past its limits, although it remains possible for humans to escape poverty and harm caused by these changes if urgent action is taken.

It found the only way to provide for everyone and ensure societies, businesses and economies thrive without destabilizing the planet is to reduce inequalities in how critical Earth system resources, such as freshwater and nutrients, are accessed and used, and how responsibilities, such as reducing carbon emissions, are shared, alongside economic and technological transformation.

By 2050, unless urgent transformations are made, the researchers argue that Earth's climate will deteriorate to the point where there will be no "safe and just space" left.

The researchers say Earth systems face the risk of crossing dangerous tipping points, which would cause further significant harm to people around the world unless energy, food, and urban systems are urgently transformed.

They don't call their plan #degrowth but it looks very similar to me.

The point is, we can't go on the way we are. We must have system change, or we will lose everything.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2024-09-outlines-path-prosperity-planet-people.html

#Economics#Science#Environment#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis