Activism of everyday life on an island Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this intimate and reflective conversation, Jasmina speaks with Svetlana about ecofeminism as a lived, daily practice rooted in care, resilience, and intergenerational responsibility. From feminist awakening in childhood to LGBTQI+ activism and motherhood, Svetlana –reflects on how raising a daughter deepened her ecological consciousness. Now living on a Mediterranean island, she shares how ecofeminism manifests through community education, soil regeneration, rainwater collection, composting, and protecting the sea from plastic pollution. Together, they explore trust within activist spaces, the importance of preventing burnout, and why joy and love are not luxuries but necessary political forces. This episode reminds us that transformation begins close to the ground, in the air we breathe and the water we protect. Svetlana Balovska Đurković (interviewee) is an anthropologist and ecofeminist queer activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Currently based in Croatia, she is a pioneer of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, now dedicating her efforts to environmental justice. Jasmina Husanović (interviewer) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

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Aquí puedes firmar la Declaración "Por una transición justa de los combustibles fósiles": www.fossilfueltreaty.org/espana-decla...

Más información sobre la Cumbre de los Pueblos: fossilfreerising.org
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Coloquio online en apoyo a la Cumbre de los Pueblos por un Futuro Libre de Combustibles Fósiles y la Conferencia sobre la Transición para Abandonar los Combustibles Fósiles.

Viernes 24 de Abril a las 16h - 17h30 (Península, CEST) / 9h - 10h30 (Colombia)

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Applications are NOW OPEN for the Blue Degrowth Deep Dive Online Course!

The 3rd session of the course, taught by Fernando "Nani" Ruiz Iglesias, follows blue carbon from concept to market instrument.

See the full syllabus and application form at: degrowth.org/projects/dee...

🗓️May 13th - June 10th

Blue Degrowth – Deep Dive Online Course 🌊

What happens when we bring degrowth thinking to the ocean?

This intensive online course explores the sea as a site of ecological crisis, political struggle, and transformative possibilities.

Applications open on April 17th.

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Ecofeminism in the Western Balkans Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Mariona speaks with Jasmina about ecofeminism emerging from the wounds of war, neoliberal transition, and extractivist violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Jasmina traces her journey from feminist peace activism during the 1990s war to co-founding a national ecofeminist platform connecting nearly 30 organizations across the country. Together, they unpack how environmental destruction, energy poverty, toxic waste, and so-called “green transition” projects turn the Western Balkans into a sacrifice zone for global capital. The conversation explores environmental democracy, radical municipal assemblies, the crisis of social reproduction, and the urgent need for sustained, face-to-face solidarity across the Mediterranean. At its heart, this episode is about rebuilding trust and defending society itself in a time of authoritarian capitalism. Jasmina Husanović (interviewee) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation. Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewer) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist and organiser from Catalonia. She is part of Research and Degrowth International, and an activist on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

📣 New Podcast! "Ecofeminism in the Western Balkans" on @Spreaker #balkans #ecofeminism #ecofeminismo #ecology #ecologia #english #free #ingles #mar #mediterranean #mediterraneo #politica #politics #sea #voces #voices #water

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Ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Asmaa speaks with Mariona about ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy, collective emancipation, and degrowth transformation. From growing up on an organic farm in the Catalan Pyrenees to organizing within labor and political advocacy spaces, Mariona reflects on how feminism reshaped her understanding of value, labor, and whose voices count in history. They discuss reclaiming sidelined memories of women during the Spanish Civil War, challenging the myth of endless economic growth, and confronting the narrative that “there is no alternative” to capitalism. Together, they argue that feminism and ecology are not side issues but are central to restructuring economies around the maintenance of life.This conversation is a call for mass participation, transnational organizing, and the radical belief that everyone, regardless of background, is a legitimate political actor. Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewee) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist and organiser from Catalonia. She is part of Research and Degrowth International, and an activist on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future. Asmaa Elmalky (interviewer) is a feminist environmental lawyer from Egypt. She holds a Master’s degree in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo and is the head of the research department at the Egyptian Foundation for Environmental Rights.  This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

📣 New Podcast! "Ecofeminism as a project of economic democracy" on @Spreaker

Applications are open for the 6th edition of the "Introduction to Degrowth" online course! 🐌

🗓️ Every Tuesday and Thursday from 18h to 20:30h (CEST)
🔴 Applications close on April 10th

See the full syllabus and register at: degrowth.org/projects/deg...

#degrowth #online #course #economics #politics

Building together beyond our differences Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode, Noe interviews Asmaa, an environmental lawyer and feminist researcher from Egypt, about ecofeminism as a systemic alternative to patriarchy, neoliberal exploitation, and colonial power. Asmaa reflects on the layered realities of Egypt, urban and rural, Mediterranean and African, and how ecofeminism must be shaped by local communities rather than imposed as a universal solution. Together, they discuss borders, political repression, solidarity under occupation, and the importance of centering Palestinian struggles within Mediterranean activism. This conversation is both intimate and political. It’s a reminder that solidarity is not about speaking for others, but about listening, amplifying and building resilient communities beyond our differences. Asmaa Elmalky (interviewee) is a feminist environmental lawyer from Egypt. She holds a Master’s degree in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo and is the head of the research department at the Egyptian Foundation for Environmental Rights.  Noe Diaferia (interviewer) is a transfeminist activist from Southern Italy. They are active in the nonviolent civil resistance movement Bruciamo Tutto (Let’s Burn Everything) advocating for radical systemic change and social justice. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

📣 New Podcast! "Building together beyond our differences" on @Spreaker

Segona edició del Forùm sobre Municipalisme i Decreixement!
Tindrem l'oportunitat per escoltar sobre diverses experiències de municipalisme decreixentista i reflexions sobre el seu rol al moment d'afrontar-nos els reptes actuals 🐌

📅 9 d'abril
📍 Centre Cultural la Mercè, Girona
🕑 18h

EXTRA SPOTS OPEN: Applications will stay open for a week longer, until the 7th of April, for the New Online Course: Practices of Conviviality: towards an Abolitionist Degrowth 🐦️

👉️ More information and the complete syllabus at: degrowth.org/projects/dee...

Only 3 days left to apply!!

More information and application form here: degrowth.org/projects/dee...

Grieving together, resisting together Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this deeply personal episode, Noe speaks with Simona about feminist awakening, collective grief, and the revolutionary power of relationships. Noe shares how the public naming of femicide as systemic patriarchal violence in Italy became a turning point in her activism, leading to the creation of a grassroots feminist movement. Together, they reflect on grief ceremonies as collective healing practices and on how community-building directly challenges capitalist individualism. Drawing on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s idea of “the danger of a single story,” they explore why storytelling is central to ecofeminist struggle — and how breaking dominant narratives opens space for dignity, complexity, and solidarity across the Mediterranean. Noe Diaferia (interviewee) is a transfeminist activist from Southern Italy. They are active in the nonviolent civil resistance movement Bruciamo Tutto (Let’s Burn Everything) advocating for radical systemic change and social justice. Simona Getova (interviewer) is an intersectional decolonial feminist organizer, facilitator, and educator from Macedonia, currently based in Barcelona. Simona is the head of operations at Research & Degrowth International and a researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

📣 New Podcast! "Grieving together, resisting together" on @Spreaker

APPLICATIONS are now OPEN!

Practices of Conviviality: Towards an Abolitionist Degrowth 🐦

Syllabus and applications at: degrowth.org/projects/dee...

New Online Course: Practices of Conviviality: towards an Abolitionist Degrowth

📅 Save the date! Applications will open next week Monday 23rd of March and will stay open for a week, until the 30th

🕸️ More info and syllabus at: degrowth.org/projects/deep-dives/deep-dive-abolitionist-degrowth/

Me, you, and the revolution Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation. Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.  These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope. In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Shereen speaks with Simona about growing up in post-Yugoslav Macedonia, inheriting a deep sense of social justice, and finding her political home in transnational climate justice organizing. Simona reflects on a defining moment within international climate justice organizing, when comrades from the Global South challenged European activists to confront privilege, colonial histories, and unequal power relations within the movement itself. From that turning point, intersectionality became not a theory, but a practice. Together, they explore why relationships are the foundation of ecofeminist struggle, why “safe spaces” must go beyond rhetoric, and how solidarity must become material through mutual aid, shared platforms and tangible care. In a world shaped by late-stage capitalism, militarization and patriarchal elites, this conversation reminds us that prefiguring the future begins in how we relate to one another now. Simona Getova (interviewee) is an intersectional decolonial feminist organizer, facilitator, and educator from Macedonia, currently based in Barcelona. Simona is the head of operations at Research & Degrowth International and a researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF. Shereen Talaat (interviewer) is a feminist economist and filmmaker from Egypt, currently based in Marocco, who founded the MENAFEM Movement to lead regional advocacy for debt justice and feminist economic alternatives in the SWANA region. This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles. An initiative by Research & Degrowth International:  Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/  Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/  If this conversation resonates with you, share it and help these voices travel further across the Mediterranean and beyond.

📣 New Podcast! "Me, you, and the revolution" on @Spreaker

Voices Across Waters 🌊

A new podcast featuring women & trans ecofeminist activists building solidarity, care & post-growth futures.

🎙 Launching March 17
📅 New episodes every Tuesday

#VoicesAcrossWaters #Ecofeminism #Mediterranean #Degrowth

Applications for the 12th edition of the Degrowth Summer School are now open!
You can apply until the 6th of April ‼️ 🌞

Go to: summerschool.degrowth.org for more information and the application form!

#summerschool #degrowth #imperialism #barcelona #summer

Join us for the Final Master's Project Defenses by students of the Political Ecology Master and the Online Degrowth Master 🌱 ✨

📅 March 25-27 & April 7-9
📍UAB & online

More information:
👉 in-person master.degrowth.org/tfm-presentations
👉 online master.degrowth.org/tfm-presentations-2

Master’s in Political Ecology, Degrowth & Environmental Justice - Applications open 🌱 ✨

Applications are open! Apply by May 31, 2026 🐌

All information on the application process: master.degrowth.org/application

We have figured out our online courses calendar for the first half of 2026.

Once applications open for each course, you will see a post on our social media and news on our website!

Por fin tendremos el curso "Introducción al Decrecimiento" en español‼️

#Degrowth #OnlineCourses #Calendar

📉El decrecimiento mueve fichas: deja el diagnóstico y empieza a forjar un movimiento político

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www.elsaltodiario.com/decrecimient...

Policy Brief n°6: ‘Bread & Roses’: workers as agents of degrowth. Authored by Nora Räthzel 🥖🌹

🔗 Link to the full policy brief at: degrowth.org/blog/2026/02...
👉🏼 Disponible en Castellano i Català

🧠¿Te imaginas un futuro donde no tengas que elegir entre pagar facturas y contribuir a tu comunidad?

Un nuevo informe de políticas traza la hoja de ruta para construir una transición ecosocial justa: Renta Básica de Cuidados + Garantía de Empleo Público ⚖️🌱

🔗 degrowth.org/blog/2026/02...

Join the Open Day to learn about our in-person and online master's programs and get answers to your questions directly from the team!

📅 Monday, February 23, 2026
⏰ 15:00 CET

Information and registration:
www.uab.cat/web/studies/...

🐌 Applications are now open!! 🐌

The fifth edition of the online “Introduction to Degrowth” course will run from March to April.

📆 Applications will close on February 23rd

To check the full syllabus go to: degrowth.org/projects/deg...
✍ Registration form here: forms.gle/n1HJj6gDQvuH...
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Applications will open on March 9th for the 12th edition of the summer school!
It will take place in Barcelona from June 21st to the 27th. Set the date on your calendar and keep your eyes peeled.

👀 More information soon.