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Chak Chok: a campaign against junk food — Local Futures

Chak Chok: a campaign against junk food — Local Futures

Transnational corporations have been spectacularly successful in their profit-driven quest to hook the world on junk food. The global sale…
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Food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation by Lyric Aquino — Local Futures

Food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation by Lyric Aquino — Local Futures

Graham Biyáál will never forget the taste of his mother’s traditional blue corn mush. An earthy, hearty dish made with ground-up blue…
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The Gospel of Progress — Local Futures

The Gospel of Progress — Local Futures

Ever since the archaic divergence of humanity from other hominids, our systems of tools and symbols have developed at an accelerating pace…
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Lurching from food crisis to food crisis — Local Futures

Lurching from food crisis to food crisis — Local Futures

When will those occupying spaces of “power” ever get the message right? As the world faces a worsening food crisis — the third in 15 years…
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The food shortage solution in your backyard by Ellen Brown — Local Futures

The food shortage solution in your backyard by Ellen Brown — Local Futures

A confluence of crises — lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions…
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Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies

Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies

The mainstream media — television, print and digital — routinely cycle through the litany of crises gripping the world. One week they’ll…
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The dirty truth about clean energy by Carlos Zorrilla — Local Futures

The dirty truth about clean energy by Carlos Zorrilla — Local Futures

Everyone knows what needs to be done to bring down CO2 levels; pump less of it into the atmosphere. But instead of reducing overall energy…
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Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”

Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”

“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with…
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Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos

Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos

Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it…
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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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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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