
PROMOTING LOCALIZATION GLOBALLY
Local Futures is a pioneer of the worldwide localization movement. We raise awareness about the power of ‘going local’ as a key strategy for restoring ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing. Our films, books, toolkits, blog, podcast, webinars, workshops, conferences and campaigns are helping to build an international movement for systemic change.
World Celebration Days are ways to highlight a cause, to collectively focus and bring important ideas to public attention...
One late-summer day, a day so hot the mosquitoes weren’t flying, my brother and his wife and I traveled nine miles...
In Ladakh and elsewhere in India, the built environment is increasingly dominated by structures that required...
I don’t know why exactly we gravitate to certain writers or thinkers, not just as convenient citations we drop here...
In the ‘green economy,’ the interests of corporations, governments and the conservation industry...
It’s too easy to get depressed by the daily news cycle of wars and the threat of A.I., and to assume that nothing at all is going...
As a nature-loving child growing up in the 2000s, I was debilitated and depressed by the idea that we could either save species...
Despite suffering from debilitating headaches and generally poor health, Weil completed her work during a remarkable burst...
US$20 billion: That’s how much American investors think Canadian taxpayers should fork over to compensate them...
If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what’s on our plates today. Gates and his agribusiness industry partners...
The crises of the modern world verify what indigenous cultures have always known: that all phenomena are inextricably interconnected...
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS...

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