Post Growth Guide with Marcus Feldthus
06/23/24 • 67 min
Our special guest for the first full length episode of this season is Marcus Feldthus from Post Growth Guide.
Post Growth Guide is a company that is based in Denmark, where Marcus Feldthus and Oscar Haumann work within the business community to assist other organisations in transitioning to post-growth ways of operating. This is crystalised in the handbook "Setting Limits To Growth: How to make better business decisions in the 21st century" which also serves as a document of their own journey, still in progress, towards becoming a post-growth business.
PGAP has previously interviewed many guests whose focus is on system/legislative change or citizen action. This is possibly the first time that we have had a guest who is working towards change from within the business sector. This places Marcus in a unique position as a true pioneer.
We hope you enjoy this episode of Post Growth Australia Podcast. Please feel free to share this and other episodes of PGAP with your networks. You can also rate and review us on APPLE PODCAST, or send us a message with your thoughts and suggestions.
Want to dip your toes deeper into Post Growth Guide, THE learning platform for anyone interested in how to align business with planetary boundaries? Below are a few links to get your started!
Open-Eyed Planning 101: Pre-signup for the course: https://www.postgrowthguide.com/course-signup
The Handbook "Setting Limits to Growth": https://www.postgrowthguide.com/handbook
The Post Growth Guide Membership: https://www.postgrowthguide.com/membership
Post Growth Guide's Open Hub (with 50+ resources on post growth business):
https://postgrowthguide.notion.site/Open-Hub-7ff04fa753a644609e8ca98cdd594b2e
Marcus would also like to share the following links for further information:
20 Cases of Post Growth Practices:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/20-Cases-of-Post-Growth-Practices-dd67efd4c7304df7b6a5ed59cab4ac8e?pvs=4
Reduction Roadmap: Getting Out Of A Race To The Bottom (a case still unfolding):
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/Case-Getting-out-of-a-race-to-the-bottom-w-Reduction-Roadmap-594f3ef7d8bf4bb08c6e4345837e0e48?pvs=4
The Danish Deposit System: Collecting & Repurposing 1.9B bottles and cans annually:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/Case-study-Danish-Deposit-System-cebd63fc07e7424d8e8ee3515cb06e0a?pvs=4
The World's First Carbon-Negative Beer (Without Offsets):
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/The-World-s-First-Carbon-Negative-Beers-Without-Offsets-5f9870afeed6436d8044252e14061dc9?pvs=4
How To Pay Living Wages w. Pura Utz:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/How-To-Pay-Living-Wages-Pura-Utz-4fd6b454fe0c40ad936ac62eb86a7404?pvs=4
Steward Ownership - an in-depth explainer of how that works:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/What-is-Steward-Ownership-ff98acf7156e47778d70f6c8922a4482?pvs=4
Antoine Monserand's paper on Degrowth and Pension Funds:
https://sustainability.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/25_Monserand.pdf
"Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan" (as mentioned in the interview):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S...
Our special guest for the first full length episode of this season is Marcus Feldthus from Post Growth Guide.
Post Growth Guide is a company that is based in Denmark, where Marcus Feldthus and Oscar Haumann work within the business community to assist other organisations in transitioning to post-growth ways of operating. This is crystalised in the handbook "Setting Limits To Growth: How to make better business decisions in the 21st century" which also serves as a document of their own journey, still in progress, towards becoming a post-growth business.
PGAP has previously interviewed many guests whose focus is on system/legislative change or citizen action. This is possibly the first time that we have had a guest who is working towards change from within the business sector. This places Marcus in a unique position as a true pioneer.
We hope you enjoy this episode of Post Growth Australia Podcast. Please feel free to share this and other episodes of PGAP with your networks. You can also rate and review us on APPLE PODCAST, or send us a message with your thoughts and suggestions.
Want to dip your toes deeper into Post Growth Guide, THE learning platform for anyone interested in how to align business with planetary boundaries? Below are a few links to get your started!
Open-Eyed Planning 101: Pre-signup for the course: https://www.postgrowthguide.com/course-signup
The Handbook "Setting Limits to Growth": https://www.postgrowthguide.com/handbook
The Post Growth Guide Membership: https://www.postgrowthguide.com/membership
Post Growth Guide's Open Hub (with 50+ resources on post growth business):
https://postgrowthguide.notion.site/Open-Hub-7ff04fa753a644609e8ca98cdd594b2e
Marcus would also like to share the following links for further information:
20 Cases of Post Growth Practices:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/20-Cases-of-Post-Growth-Practices-dd67efd4c7304df7b6a5ed59cab4ac8e?pvs=4
Reduction Roadmap: Getting Out Of A Race To The Bottom (a case still unfolding):
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/Case-Getting-out-of-a-race-to-the-bottom-w-Reduction-Roadmap-594f3ef7d8bf4bb08c6e4345837e0e48?pvs=4
The Danish Deposit System: Collecting & Repurposing 1.9B bottles and cans annually:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/Case-study-Danish-Deposit-System-cebd63fc07e7424d8e8ee3515cb06e0a?pvs=4
The World's First Carbon-Negative Beer (Without Offsets):
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/The-World-s-First-Carbon-Negative-Beers-Without-Offsets-5f9870afeed6436d8044252e14061dc9?pvs=4
How To Pay Living Wages w. Pura Utz:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/How-To-Pay-Living-Wages-Pura-Utz-4fd6b454fe0c40ad936ac62eb86a7404?pvs=4
Steward Ownership - an in-depth explainer of how that works:
https://www.notion.so/postgrowthguide/What-is-Steward-Ownership-ff98acf7156e47778d70f6c8922a4482?pvs=4
Antoine Monserand's paper on Degrowth and Pension Funds:
https://sustainability.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/25_Monserand.pdf
"Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan" (as mentioned in the interview):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S...
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Mini Episode: Alex Baumann on Public Housing and Degrowth
Post-Growth Australia Podcast welcomes back Dr. Alex Baumann for a mini episode on housing and Degrowth.
Alex was one of our star guests a couple of years ago, whose epsiode, "A Public Housing Revolution for Degrowth with Dr Alex Baumann" remains one of PGAP's highest performing episodes.
Alex returns to update us on the following:
- The launch of the De Gruyter Degrowth Handbook and most specifically, the chapter, cowritten by Alex and Samuel Alexander: "Land Commodification: A Structural Barrier to Degrowth Transition."
- An article in The Conversation: "Huge housing costs make us slaves to our jobs and unsustainable growth. But there’s another way".
- The strategy paper "LAND COMMODIFICATION AS A BARRIER TO POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AGENCY: A DEGROWTH PERSPECTIVE"
- Alex is a lecturer at the 'Sustainable Futures' course at the University of Western Sydney. A video was made with the students of the course, which can be seen on YouTube here.
PGAP is delighted to be returning for a SIXTH season with a mix of full length episodes as well as mini episodes with returning guests. We hope to make this format accessible to everyone, whether you are looking for a briefer or more immersive listen.
Please send us your feedback by contacting us on our CONTACT PAGE HERE. We would appreciate a review on APPLE PODCAST if you have the time. Please share this and your other favourite episodes of PGAP among your networks. PGAP is run by Michael Bayliss and Mark Allen, supported by Sustainable Population Australia.
Special Guest: Alex Baumann.
Next Episode
Mini Episode: Larry Blight, Noongar Menang Friend of Yakamia Forest Boodja
This mini episode of PGAP is the 'soundtrack' to a recent seven-minute video that was made by Michael Bayliss on behalf of the Friends of Yakamia Boodja action group, "Meet Larry Blight, Menang Noongar Educator and Friend of Yakamia Forest Boodja"
It touches on some of the main themes that were discussed during a more in-depth conversation that we had with Larry for the full-length episode of Season Five, "Conversation with Noongar Menang Educator and Storyteller Larry Blight."
You may also be interested in another five minute video, "Meet Some of the Friends of Yakamia Forest Boodja" which was filmed on-site and also features Larry Blight along with many other active campaigners. This video was a success on social media and drew in support from the broader community in Albany, South-West Australia.
PGAP recognises NAIDOC Week (07th to 14th of July) which honours the traditions, achievements, and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This episode along with the videos were made on Menang Noongar Boodja, on lands that were never ceded and to whose lands our current extractive society keeps plundering and 'developing' without meaningful consultation. All in the endless pursuit of growth.
Groups such as Friends of Yakamia Boodja are active in solidarity with the first custodians of the land in their campaign to protect what we can of remaining patches of bushland. Sadly all conservation groups will find themselves having to fight one battle after another until such time that we transition to a post-growth society that applies the wisdom of First Nation cultures.
We deeply respect elders past, present and emerging.
Special Guest: Larry Blight.
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