SHRINK TOWARD ABUNDANCE
We envision a future where our human footprint is in balance with life on Earth, enabling all species to thrive.
Our Work
We inspire narrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet.
We are proud to be the first and only organization globally that uses an anti-oppression lens to draw connections between pronatalism, human supremacy, social inequalities, and ecological overshoot, and offer resilient, life-affirming pathways to address their combined impacts on the planet, people, and animals.
Our Pillars
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We challenge pronatalism — the societal pressures to have children — and empower liberated and informed choices for ourselves and the planet, including adopting broader understandings of “family” with our human and nonhuman kin.
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We challenge the worldview of human supremacy — that humans are superior to all other life forms — and advocate for a radical shift in our relationship with all animals and with the entire natural world: from one of domination and exploitation, to one of reverence, justice, and care.
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We challenge unjust, growth-driven socioeconomic systems that exploit and disempower people and threaten all life on Earth, in favor of systems that respect ecological limits and advance social justice.
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What if abundance begins when we ask for less?
Across the globe, people are choosing to shrink their impact on Earth. Here is how some of them are doing it.
Kelly U.
USA
I’ve found joy in living lightly and intentionally. Being vegan is the most meaningful choice I make—it cares for animals, people, and the planet. Additionally, I surround myself only with what I truly need; almost everything I own is secondhand, and when I do buy new, I choose the least harmful option I can afford. Part of this practice is keeping social media off my phone, limiting it to laptop use; creating distance from ads and messages that I need to buy and consume. Life feels fuller when I focus on connection and simplicity.
Mariko T.
Japan / Germany
Not by disaster but by choice, I am learning to live within limitations. I follow a vegan diet, try to limit my use of single-use plastics, mainly commute to work by public transportation and bicycle, prefer to buy locally-sourced food and products, and have started mending my own clothes. I’ve built up a routine over the years and own most of the things I need. A life of limitations is also allowing me to get to know myself better. Will I be unsatisfied? Will I be relieved? This is a journey for studying myself.
Pip B.
UK
I am a single, childfree woman who has broken free from the mental shackles of conformity in a world that insists more is always better. In discovering the freedom of living without a partner or children, I began to uncover the many layers of who I am beneath a conditioned mind. I am now a single, childfree vegan, moving steadily toward a life rooted in minimalism, activism and solitude. Though I may be seen as an outcast in many areas of society, my life has never felt more aligned or more right.
Our Initiatives
Our podcasts, classroom and conference presentations, and academic and popular media publications make the connections between pronatalism, human supremacy, growthism, and ecological overshoot, and promote urgently needed life-affirming pathways.
Support Our Vital Work
The vital work we do through our podcasts, publications, and presentations is not possible without the generosity of supporters like you, and we are grateful to those of you who join us in our work to build resilient, life-affirming alternatives.
Please help us advance our goal of shrinking toward abundance by donating today.
