The new Green Minds episode features Logan Strenchock, a leading voice in Hungary’s degrowth movement. Drawing on community food systems and lived experience, he explains why moving beyond endless growth can lead to greater wellbeing, connection, and fairer futures.
The new Green Minds episode features Logan Strenchock, one of Hungary’s most active voices in community-based sustainability and the degrowth movement. After arriving in Hungary in 2012, Logan moved from environmental science into hands-on work with Zsámboki Biokert, co-founded Cargonomia, and became Sustainability Officer at CEU. He describes this shift simply, he wanted to “get his hands dirty” and help change local food systems.
In the episode, Logan offers a clear, accessible explanation of degrowth—not as going backwards, but as rethinking the belief that economies must grow endlessly on a finite planet. Constant growth, he explains, creates stress, waste and consumption patterns that don’t make us happier. A degrowth mindset instead values community, well-being and sufficiency.
In his stories Logan tells us that high-school students say they feel most alive in nature or with friends, not through buying more. And Cargonomia shows how community farms, cargo bikes and neighbourhood events already model sustainable alternatives.
Logan reminds us that many people want to live more sustainably but feel stuck. When we understand degrowth, we begin to recognise the solutions that genuinely move us toward a fairer, more sustainable future..
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