{"id":246341,"date":"2024-02-21T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth-grist\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:52:02","slug":"the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth-grist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth-grist\/","title":{"rendered":"The growing popularity of degrowth &#8211; Grist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"aligncenter\">The vision<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s a five-minute bike ride to the train station. On brisk mornings like this, I wear gloves and pack a warm coffee for the commute. My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me in the sunny coach section. Half an hour later, we unload the bikes and race each other along the greenway to our office. Twice a week, this; twice a week, we co-work from a cafe in the suburbs. The rest of the week is ours to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014 a drabble from Looking Forward reader Betsy Ruckman<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"aligncenter\">The spotlight<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">If you like the idea of a perpetual three-day weekend, you might be one of a growing cadre that supports the concept of degrowth: a school of thought aimed at shrinking economies and moving away from GDP growth as a metric of success, while instead emphasizing universal basic services and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/looking-forward\/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision It\u2019s a five-minute bike ride to the train station. On brisk mornings like this, I wear gloves and pack a warm coffee for the commute. My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":246342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The growing popularity of degrowth - Grist - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/looking-forward\/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The growing popularity of degrowth - Grist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The vision It\u2019s a five-minute bike ride to the train station. 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