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📢💣🔥"Living Within Planetary Boundaries:
Facing Facts, Rethinking Strategies. Building Bridges. A European Sufficiency Conference." 🌍🌏🌎🌿

This is the name of the conference I am helping co-organise with a team, in Berlin, on Oct. 6, 2026 - hosted by SRU, UBA and EEAC.

👉 Finally, our preliminary programme is online!

Download here; and register if you're interested in attending. We've already seen huge interest in the first few hours! Will also be streamed.

https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Termine/EN/2024_2028/2026_09_Trafo.html

#sufficiency

WIST Quotations 5d ago

A quotation from James Howell

Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83836/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #enough #feast #food #hunger #proverb #satiety #satisfaction #sufficiency #surplus

Howell, James - Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "English Proverbs" (1659) [compiler] | WIST Quotations

Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.

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Michael Burchert 6d ago

There is plenty of good news coming from the solar, wind and battery etc, where engineers are fine-tuning things. Does that overshadow the real task at hand? #Sufficiency #LowEnergyDemand, enough.

Manuel Apr 22

“Deciding to travel with the slowest vehicle possible is subversive because it questions values we take for granted in the modern world, such as speed and utility.”

#LowTech #Sufficiency #Maker

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/

Rediscovering the Handcart

A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation.

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

WIST Quotations Apr 15

A quotation from Gracian

Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great.

[Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto importa una bella retirada como una bizarra acometida; un poner en cobro las hazañas cuando fueren bastantes, cuando muchas.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #chance #fortune #gambling #luck #quit #retreat #selfcontrol #selfdiscipline #sufficiency #walkaway #winning #withdrawal #enterprise #attack

Gracián, Baltasar - The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)] | WIST Quotations

Say farewell to luck when winning: it is the way of the gamblers of reputation: quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat, wherefore lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. [Saberse dejar ganando con la fortuna. Es de tahúres de reputación. Tanto…

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DegrowthUK Apr 9

DEGROWTH EVENTS FUND 2026 is open now!!

Once again, @IDN is supporting grassroots initiatives that bring people together to explore pathways toward ecosocial justice, care, and futures grounded in #sufficiency and #solidarity.

If you’re dreaming up an event that nurtures the degrowth movement, this is your moment. Apply now!!

More information at this link https://www.degrowth.network/our-work/degrowth-events-fund/guidelines-for-2025-degrowth-events-funding-applications/

Degrowth Events Fund 2025 | International Degrowth Network

In 2025, the International Degrowth Network had the privilege of inviting the degrowth community to apply for a fund dedicated towards degrowth …

Kent Pitman Mar 18

Sometimes excellent poetry appears in the most unlikely of places, something we all should help happen more often. Kristen Darling today posted a lovely and insightful piece on LinkedIn. It begins:

«How to Have the Life You Want

One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace.
I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets
and to keep its hands where I can see them.
I will stop inserting anxiety
where I spent a few moments …»

Read the rest here (no account required, do it in an incognito window if LinkedIn's corporateness bugs you):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristen-darling-50921813b_mentalhealthmatters-mentalhealth-activity-7440068320231591936-9x4h/

#poetry #poem #life #philosophy #peace #happiness #contentment #sufficiency #enough #enoughness #anxiety #depression #MentalHealth

#mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth | Kristen Darling

How to Have the Life You Want One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace. I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets and to keep its hands where I can see them. I will stop inserting anxiety where I spent a few moments not questioning the validity of my existence— nor courting depression because I was not faster, smarter, better. One must want to live to contemplate the life one wants; and strangely, I do, despite the constant terrors of modern life, the rear-ended vehicles and raggedly broken heart. One day, when life is urgent in my throat and the roar of blood is in my ears, I will thank my lucky stars for everything that my body has rebuked, the many forces that have tried to kill me to this point. One day, I will step into my power and stop second-guessing each potential mistake before I've given myself room to feel joy. Each day, I'm trying to live the life I want, because I want to be alive. (poem, mine) #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂Mar 4

Yayo Herrero talks about a just ecosocial transition, that brings us back in connection with the earth and life itself. She takes a position of hope, that we can start to put ourselves in motion, to change.

It is about #sufficiency: it is both a right, for those who have too little, and an obligation for the rest to reduce our levels of consumption.

Privilege is a responsibility, it (should) convert you into an agent of change. Living in territories that rely on the extraction of wealth from others, have the responsibility to change, to repair. It is also a position of humillity, the root of which is shared with "human" and "humus", the earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayo_Herrero