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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Our Future Economy: From Transition To De-Growth
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It was a couple of years ago that I first heard about the ‘Transition Movement’. I had to interview one of its founders in the tiny English town of Totnes, before realising the movement had already spread to 50 countries. Transition, as they say themselves, is:
“... about communities stepping up to address the big challenges they face by starting local. By coming together, they are able to crowd-source solutions. They seek to nurture a caring culture, one focused on supporting each other, both as groups or as wider communities. In practice, they are reclaiming the economy, sparking entrepreneurship, reimagining work, reskilling themselves and weaving webs of connection and support.”
I get to meet many interesting 'outside-the-box' thinkers and pioneers through my work as a journalist, but I often find it a shame that their bold ideas don’t get seen by or shared with a mass audience. I therefore decided to share this link to a talk show by Earth.tv, posted on the New Internationalist website.
This 33-minute-long episode features co-founder of the Transition Movement, Naresh Giangrande in conversation with Richard Swift, author of SOS Alternatives to Capitalism and advocate for ‘de-growth’: a downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet. In this talk, they discuss our future economy and the way in which they believe our societies should transition.
Disclaimer: I have recently done some work with New Internationalist, which is how I came across this talk. I suppose this proves the point of such alternative topics not reaching the mainstream often enough.
