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What's included:

We've based the content of this course on what companies hire us to educate them on. It's distilled into 157 minutes of video, which covers:

  1. Why green growth fails to deliver results fast enough
    and sufficiently
  2. How the inequality and ecological crises are connected
  3. Cases of companies that get sustainability right and wrong.
  4. How to start implementing post growth thinking in a business.

After completing the course, you:

+ Know why 16 common business assumptions are misleading

+ Can spot the 16 assumptions in a business context

+ Can escape the assumptions by thinking differently
(like a post growth business)

+ Can start a conversation about the assumptions in your company

(normal price $150)

$75

What's included

  • 16 lessons
  • 150+ minutes of video
  • 170+ further readings
  • 135+ slides ready to copy
  • Available on demand
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More about the course

 

A beginner's guide to post growth business
(which is relevant to experts, too)


The content of this course is what companies pay us thousands of dollars to educate them on.


It's about:

  1. Why green growth fails to deliver results fast enough and sufficiently
  2. How the inequality and ecological crises are connected 
  3. Concrete cases of companies that get sustainability initiatives right and wrong
  4. Debunking arguments against post growth thinking.

 

This is where the business world is at: 

Understanding the fundamentals of "why" and "what" of post growth business. That's why this course is only a beginner's guide (our handbook is 150+ pages of in-depth "how" and fewer are ready to learn about that).

 

7 bullet points about the course

  • Each lesson is built around (a) one common and misleading business assumption, (b) arguments for why it's misleading when integrating planetary and social boundaries, (c) examples of how to think differently about the issue, including cases when possible, and (d) suggestions for how to start a conversation about it in your business.

  • 16 lessons, plus an introduction and epilogue

  • 157 minutes of video (initially, we thought it would be only 90 minutes, but we had so much to say about each topic)

  • 170+ further readings (including our notes on what the source covers)

  • 135+ slides ready to copy, adapt, and use (all the slides from the course are yours)

  • Available on demand (pre-recorded videos)

  • If you want to participate in discussions in the online forum, you must buy the membership. If you buy the course as a stand-alone, that is not included (we have done that to price the course as low as possible for those who can do without the forum).

 

The 16 Lessons (our personal favorite is no. 15)

  1. Decoupling (is not happening fast enough)

  2. Techno-optimism (ignores that hope is not a strategy)

  3. Planetary Boundaries (shows problem shifting is everywhere)

  4. Prices (are not stable)

  5. The Rebound Effect (makes efficiencies increase emissions)

  6. Recycling (has a limited potential)

  7. Services (has an underestimated footprint)

  8. Inequality (is rising)

  9. Minimum Wages (are not living wages)

  10. Heroism (is not the answer)

  11. Net Zero (is a limiting lens)

  12. Offsetting (is a lousy excuse for continuing business as usual)

  13. The Leakage Effect (is rarely 100%)

  14. Scaling Impact (can be done in other ways than growing)

  15. Giantism (neglects that small is beautiful)

  16. Legislation (is not something you can wait for)