{"id":252451,"date":"2024-06-12T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/what-can-you-do-with-a-degree-in-degrowth-grist\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:10:43","slug":"what-can-you-do-with-a-degree-in-degrowth-grist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/what-can-you-do-with-a-degree-in-degrowth-grist\/","title":{"rendered":"What can you do with a degree in degrowth? – Grist"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey there, fam. Today\u2019s spotlight story is a collaboration with The Green Fix<\/strong>, a Europe-focused climate newsletter managed by Cass Hebron. Cass and I have been following each other\u2019s work for a while now, and we teamed up to bring you this story about the world\u2019s first master\u2019s program in degrowth.<\/p>\n In 2018, one of Spain\u2019s top-ranked universities, which trains its graduates for careers in everything from neuroscience and biomedicine to government and economics, launched a first-of-its-kind master\u2019s program in a more nascent and explicitly nontraditional field: a degree in degrowth.<\/p>\n Degrowth is a movement that calls for intentionally scaling down overdeveloped economies, like those in the U.S. and Europe, focusing instead on citizens\u2019 well-being, ecological sustainability, and providing for basic needs without extracting every last resource. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe spotlight<\/h2>\n