Local Futures — Economics of Happiness

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…

For a good stretch of the last 20 years, I’ve tried as best I can to be a small-scale farmer. The results have varied from the worthwhile…

I returned to my village in Ladakh when the Prime Minister announced the first lockdown in late-March. I ended up spending the whole…

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…

The crises of the modern world verify what indigenous cultures have always known: that all phenomena are inextricably interconnected. As…

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peruvians are facing exceptional challenges as individuals and communities throughout the country…

For the last year I grew and foraged 100% of my food. No grocery stores, no restaurants, not even a drink at a bar. Nature was my garden…

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing…

The circular economy has become, for many governments, institutions, companies, and environmental organizations, one of the main…

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…

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

“The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” — David Attenborough