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Post Growth Institute

About The Post Growth Institute ... and the Team

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Peter Burgess

About The Post Growth Institute

The Post Growth Institute is an international group exploring and inspiring paths to global prosperity that don’t rely on economic growth.

Our Mission is to build and empower a broad-based global movement for identifying, inspiring and implementing new approaches to global well-being.

We’re privileged to have this forum together to express our views and ideas. Our founding members include:

Amelia is a visual anthropologist (filmmaker & researcher) and is inspired to vision alternative futures, as well as to document the cultural shifts of our time. She is active in solidarity economy work, which celebrates and aims to strengthen ecologically and socially just businesses and economic relationships. She is also a maker of nettle tea, wild berry jam, and divides her time between New York City and a farm near Stockholm.

Sharon is an ideas transmitter, writer and activist who writes, collects, and shares stories on communication and change for sustainability at cruxcatalyst. Sharon has been working on sustainability issues in paid and voluntary work since 1993 and loves playing connect the dots by cultivating a wide network of people working on sustainability.avatarJen Hinton Jen has a very diverse background, with academic and professional experiences ranging from theater to business to environmental studies. Her expertise is systems thinking and she has a contagious enthusiasm for seeking holistic ways of moving beyond humanity’s current crises.

Brian works on structuring enabling environments that support human connection and create synergies, and believes that group systems and processes heavily influence effective teamwork and individual success. His graduate research focuses on property rights, governance, and the development of the commons sector.

Ollie is near completion of his Bachelor of Economics and Science (Economic Analysis/Physics) at The University of Tasmania. With particular passions for good communication, education and an acknowledgment of our psychology, Ollie believes that thinking 'big' and 'systemic' is a good place to start when change-making and recognises that inspiration can come from unlikely places...

Donnie is a co-founder of the Post Growth Institute and an Affiliate Professor of Social Science at Southern Oregon University. He is presently writing two books: How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-For-Profit World by 2050 and The Not-for-Profit Handbook.

Joshua's life goal is leave this world better than when he came in – similar to the campsite rule. He started writing about sustainable economics with his blog Steady State Revolution, acted as Washington Chapter Director for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) for a few years and is a co-founder of the Post Growth Institute. An avid reader, cyclist and hobbyist mead maker, Joshua lives Seattle, WA USA with his wife and son.

Kendra is a writer, researcher, environmental strategist and author of the 2012 book Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet.avatarFernanda Tomaselli Fernanda is very passionate about sustainability issues and environmental communications. Her experience in the environmental field is quite diverse ranging from projects in the Amazon Rainforest to researching forest-based enterprises in Africa. She is currently doing her PhD studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Her research aims to explore the effects of message framing on post-growth communications.

We are always interested in sharing and expanding the conversation. If you have a meaningful thing to add, please contact us.