Marcus Feldthus, an entrepreneur from Denmark and co-founder of the Post Growth Guide, shares insights on sustainable business practices beyond traditional growth. He discusses the importance of addressing social and planetary boundaries to craft real sustainability strategies. Feldthus explores how post-growth paradigms align with concepts like degrowth and regenerative economics. He highlights the need for trust in sustainability dialogues and introduces his upcoming book, emphasizing practical approaches for businesses to embrace innovative eco-friendly practices.
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Post-Growth Concept Explained
Post-growth aims to achieve well-being for all within planetary boundaries by challenging eternal economic growth.
It is a pluralistic concept drawing from ecological economics, indigenous wisdom, and critiques of continuous growth.
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Circular Economy and Post-Growth Fit
Circular economy strategies can support a just and sufficient green transition if applied within growth-independent systems.
Yet, in growth-based economies, circular strategies often lead to rebound effects, maintaining or increasing absolute emissions.
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Circular Economy By Default vs Design
Developed economies rely on growth and planned obsolescence, whereas less developed ones practice circular economy by default.
Post-growth calls for designing economies to promote durability, repairability, and sufficiency, reversing disposability trends.
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We zoom out to the economy part of the circular economy, to talk about the Post Growth concept, with Marcus Feldthus.
Together with Oscar Haumann, Marcus founded the Post Growth Guide back in 2023, as a learning space for people who want to understand the social and planetary boundaries so as to make real sustainability strategies, avoiding greenwashing, going beyond compliance, and leading the way forward for their business and wider industry.
The platform has a growing membership community and offers explainers, case studies, online courses, books, and public talks.
Marcus Feldthus is an entrepreneur from Denmark with a Master's Degree in Business from Copenhagen Business School. Marcus, with Oscar Haumann also started a consultancy called Abel, back in 2015.
Marcus will explain the concept of Post Growth, its historical roots and what its aiming to achieve, and we talk about how the circular economy fits into a Post Growth system. We discuss how Post Growth is gaining traction and how it aligns with some of the other approaches to progressive economic, including degrowth and regenerative economics.
Marcus tells us more about the Post Growth Guide and course, about his new book, “The Economies of Small Scale”, coming out soon, and why conversation starters are a great tool to help us all think about this from practical, business perspectives.
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