Summit Recording
Climate, Degrowth & the Economy 9-19-25
The second in the CEMTF 6th Virtual Summit Series: Climate, Readiness, Solidarity & Rights for All
Program schedule below:
9:00 AM
Land Acknowledgement
9:10 AM
Welcome
Speakers
9:15 AM
Degrowth & The Post-Growth Deal: Ecosocialism for the win
9:40 AM
Negotiating Post-Extractivist Futures During Latin America’s Pink Tide 2.0
10: 00 AM
Degrowth for who: policy perceptions amongst working class Americans
10:20 AM
Degrowth Policies, Practices, and Education in the EU
10:40 AM
U.S. Degrowth: The State of the Movement
11:00 AM Break
11:05 A M
"A Post-growth deal for Italy" exploring the coalition-building potential of non-reformist reforms
11:25 AM
“How the Doughnut can bring CA’s economy in service of climate and people”
11:50 AM
Announcements & Closing
Welcome
Cheryl Davila
Founder & Chair CEMTF
Former Councilmember, City of Berkeley, CA
As a Councilmember (now former) Cheryl was a champion for the climate and humanity. Under her leadership the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) passed & Fossil Fuel Free resolution unanimously in June 2018. The CED was the third in the world. Now over 2335 governments around the world have since declared climate emergencies.
Under Cheryl’s leadership, BPD got out of Urban Shield, banned flavored tobacco & changed the city limit signs to “Welcome to the City of Berkeley Ohlone Territory” signs, just a few of hundreds of accomplishments in her tenure.
Cheryl founded CEMTF in 2019. Did you know CEMTF was the brainchild of the prohibition of natural gas infrastructure in new buildings? True.
CEMTF is in its 6th year! We’ll be celebrating soon. Stay tuned!
Land Acknowledgement
Kim DeOcampo
Retired & Board Member
Sorgorea Te’ Land Trust
Kim DeOcampo, Tuolumne Mewuk, Houma-Chocktaw, African American activist who grew up in Vallejo and has worked extensively in the Native community for 35 years. Kim is a Board Member of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an Indigenous women lead trust that addresses food injustice, landback and climate change.
Kim is also a member of the Solano County Behavioral Health Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee as well as the Diabetes Council.
Currently, Kim is a retired caseworker from California Tribal TANF Partnership, an agency that provides social services to the underserved Native American Families in Solano County.
Check out Sogorea Te' Land Trust Youtube, which features discussions with Indigenous Matriarchs from around the world, discussing a variety of topics related to Indigeneity, sacred site protection, wellness, and reciprocity.
Speakers:
Degrowth & The Post-Growth Deal: Ecosocialism for the win
Armando Davila Kirkwood
Graduate Student
Committed to environmental justice, and an evolutionary breakthrough for humanity in the near term, Armando Davila Kirkwood is an artist at the intersection of healing, dance, poetry, sustainability, culture, politics, justice, and the future. You can find him writing poetry or raps dedicated to addressing the poly-crisis, meditating and at the farmers market attempting to live a good life. Always looking for opportunities to collaborate, let’s create portals to a stable world together. He just studied at the Degrowth, Political Ecology & Environmental Justice Master’s at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and will be reporting back on his experience.
Negotiating Post-Extractivist Futures During Latin America’s Pink Tide 2.0
Vaclav Masek Sánchez
Ph.D. Candidate
Institute of Environmental Science Technology Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-U3AB)
Vaclav Masek Sánchez is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) from Guatemala, with a master's degree in Sociology (USC, 2023) and Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NYU, 2019). He is a doctoral researcher at REAL: A Post-Growth Deal, an ERC-funded project that promotes scientific research for achieving post-growth transformations. His dissertation project involves a multi-sited ethnography of grassroots movements aiming to build coalitions for eco-social transformation in Colombia and Guatemala. Vaclav writes monthly opinion editorials for elPeriódico, one of Guatemala’s largest daily newspapers in Spanish, and El País in Spain.
Degrowth for who: policy perceptions amongst working class Americans
Dallas O'Dell
Post-Doctorate Researcher
ICTA-UAB, the Real Project
Originally from New York City, I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB working with the REAL project. My research focuses on degrowth policy perceptions, as well as framing and communications, especially considering working class audiences.
Degrowth Policies, Practices, and Education in the EU
Nancy E. Landrum, Ph.D. & Alli Grabe
Professor & Graduate Student
Munich Business School
Nancy E. Landrum, Ph.D. is Professor of Sustainable Business Transformation at Munich Business School. Her teaching and research interests are in corporate sustainability, degrowth and post-growth sustainability, biomimicry, and stages of sustainability.
Ali Grabe is a student in the Masters in International Business program at Munich Business School. Her thesis is on the topic of degrowth in the business school curriculum.
U.S. Degrowth:
The State of the Movement
Anna Prouty
Media & Outreach Coordinator
Degrowth Institute
Anna Prouty is a writer, artist and community organizer living in the Cascadia bioregion. She is the media and outreach coordinator for Degrowth Institute, and a co-founder of DegrowUS. She has been involved in numerous mutual aid, dual power, solidarity economy and resilience efforts over the years, and has been a key organizer in the U.S. degrowth movement since 2018.
"A Post-growth deal for Italy exploring the coalition-building potential of non-reformist reforms”
Federico Arcuri & Carlotta Paglia
Project Coordinator & Co-Author/ Research Fellow
Research and DeGrowth & International Society for Ecological Economics
Federico Arcuri is a project coordinator at Research and Degrowth. He is also an alumnus of the master's in Political Ecology at ICTA-UAB, with a thesis on a "Postgrowth deal for Italy". He is interested in environmental conflicts, post-growth policy and geopolitics, especially with respect to EU-China relations. He co-organized the last two editions of the Degrowth Summer School, coordinating the bike caravan weeks and facilitating ounter-cartography workshops. Co-organizer of the Beyond Growth conference Italia (April 2024), he is active in the Italian degrowth movement.
Carlotta graduated in political ecology, degrowth, and environmental justice from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a thesis exploring the desirability of degrowth policies among social movements, trade unions, and progressive political parties. For the past year she has been a research fellow for the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) at the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Previously, she was working on EU public affairs in Brussels.
“How the Doughnut can bring CA’s economy in service of climate and people”
Franziska Raedeker & Indy Rishi Singh
Consultant& Lecturer Chief Pollinator
California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC)
Franziska Raedeker is an independent sustainable consultant and lecturer. Passionate about halting/reversing the climate and ecosystems crisis, she helps organizations worldwide reduce their footprint and develop strategies with a positive impact on people and planet. As a volunteer, Franziska led several public schools’ Green Teams, participated in a think-tank for global climate action, got certified as a Climate Reality Leader, and has been deeply involved in CalDEC since its early days. Recently she has been co-leading the deep-dive Doughnut assessment for the state of California, and presented renegade economist ideas to various audiences.
Indy Rishi Singh is a community educator and an intercultural advocate for people and planet regeneration. He is the Chief Pollinator with Cosmic Labyrinth, a collective of edutaining professionals producing biocultural ecorestorations and collective care festivals. Indy joined the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, channeling his half-decade of research into government policy change and civic imagination. He is also a board member with
Cultivating Self, a nonprofit focused on health equity and justice, by providing caregivers with education, resilience, and empowerment. Indy regularly shares Neuroplasticity meditation playshops, sound healing engagements, and resilience techniques with corporations and organizations around the world.
