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Emissions Accounting: Cooking the Books — Local Futures

Emissions Accounting: Cooking the Books — Local Futures

Ready for a quick climate change quiz? See if you can identify the climate hero in the scenario below:
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A Tale of Localization in Two Cities by Debra Efroymson

A Tale of Localization in Two Cities by Debra Efroymson

After spending 30 years in Asia (mostly Bangladesh), I have recently begun spending most of my time in the small city of Santa Fe, New…
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Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now by Richard Heinberg

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now by Richard Heinberg

The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
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50,000 People Say Another World is Possible — Local Futures

50,000 People Say Another World is Possible — Local Futures

World Social Forum Nepal 2024 — Local Futures reports from the World Social Forum, Nepal 2024:
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A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism’ — Local Futures by Kristen Stel

A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism’ — Local Futures by Kristen Stel

Like many disasters, Covid-19 shocked the world; like some disasters it changed the world economy in ways most of us did not predict. But…
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Water grabbing: squeezing communities dry — Local Futures

Water grabbing: squeezing communities dry — Local Futures

In 2023 the United Nations’ authority on water warned that a global water crisis was imminent. For many communities, this crisis is…
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The Green Revolution by Glenn Davis Stone

The Green Revolution by Glenn Davis Stone

Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and…
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Saving Japan’s seed heritage from “free trade”

Saving Japan’s seed heritage from “free trade”

I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s…
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The Flower of Transformation — blog Local Futures

The Flower of Transformation — blog Local Futures

With growing news of war and conflict, ecological and climate catastrophe, stark inequalities, health crises related to both poverty and…
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Bicycles and Localization by Shail Shrestha

Bicycles and Localization by Shail Shrestha

World Celebration Days are ways to highlight a cause, to collectively focus and bring important ideas to public attention at the community…
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We Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not new to Black people

We Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not new to Black people

For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and…
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The inner dimension of climate adaptation — Local Futures

Capitalism in its earliest incarnation dates back to the end of Europe’s medieval period. ‘Growth’, such as it was, first manifested…
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We don’t need more products destined from the landfill, we do need a bottom up revolution.

We don’t need more products destined from the landfill, we do need a bottom up revolution.

Please say no to Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and seek out inspiration instead.
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What is ‘Energy Denial’? — Local Futures

What is ‘Energy Denial’? — Local Futures

The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century…
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