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What did we lose when we lost the stars? — Local Futures

What did we lose when we lost the stars? — Local Futures

Reading Dante’s Divine Comedy poses any number of challenges to modern readers. This should not, I’ll quickly add, deter modern readers…
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Trade treaties and the climate emergency

Trade treaties and the climate emergency

The chickens have come home to roost for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Kenney bet around $1.5 billion of public money on a very risky…
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Birdsong as a Compass

Birdsong as a Compass

The booming call of the Pheasant Coucal is soft and rhythmic on a calm, springtime afternoon.
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Cities and Green Orthodoxy

Cities and Green Orthodoxy

As the world has urbanized rapidly since 1950, per capita carbon footprint has declined, and so has carbon intensity in economic output…
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How to fix a food system that’s not designed to feed people

How to fix a food system that’s not designed to feed people

Earlier this year, Americans learned what it looks like when a food system reliant on industrial agriculture, near monopolies and…
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Progress and the modernization of Ladakh

Progress and the modernization of Ladakh

One morning during breakfast, my family started talking about new policies of the government towards “Progress” to ensure road…
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How the World Bank helped re-establish colonial plantations

How the World Bank helped re-establish colonial plantations

In October 2020, a group of 79 Kenyans filed a lawsuit in a UK court against one of the world’s largest plantation companies, Camelia Plc…
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Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective

Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective

A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her…
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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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What to Do When the World is on Fire — Local Futures

What to Do When the World is on Fire — Local Futures

In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine…
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How Circular is the Circular Economy?

How Circular is the Circular Economy?

The circular economy has become, for many governments, institutions, companies, and environmental organizations, one of the main…
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Convenience, Community, and Late-Stage Capitalism

Convenience, Community, and Late-Stage Capitalism

Yesterday I went to the post office to mail a package to my daughter overseas. She’s been in the military for years, so I’m familiar with…
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Variety, Survival, and the Revenge of the Luddites — Local Futures

Variety, Survival, and the Revenge of the Luddites — Local Futures

Since human creativity will have to move in new directions as the Industrial Revolution runs down, you may be wondering what kinds of…
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