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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…
Local Futures
Nov 20
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…
Local Futures
Oct 23
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…
Local Futures
Oct 9
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…
Local Futures
Sep 12
A revival of natural building in Ladakh by Local Futures
A revival of natural building in Ladakh by Local Futures
In Ladakh and elsewhere in India, the built environment is increasingly dominated by structures that required unsustainable construction…
Local Futures
Aug 15
Embrace Your Crookedness — Local Futures
Embrace Your Crookedness — Local Futures
I don’t know why exactly we gravitate to certain writers or thinkers, not just as convenient citations we drop here and there, maybe to…
Local Futures
Aug 8
How the ‘green economy’ exacerbates deforestation in Brazil by World Rainforest Movement — Local…
How the ‘green economy’ exacerbates deforestation in Brazil by World Rainforest Movement — Local…
In the ‘green economy,’ the interests of corporations, governments and the conservation industry intersect. All of these entities, in one…
Local Futures
Jul 25
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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…
Local Futures
Mar 4, 2019
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…
Local Futures
Mar 22, 2022
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…
Local Futures
Jul 3, 2020
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…
Local Futures
Jan 18, 2022
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.
Local Futures
Nov 22, 2018
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…
Local Futures
Sep 16, 2019
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…
Local Futures
Sep 23, 2020
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