The multiple crises we face share a common root cause: the global economic system.
For more than 40 years, Local Futures has raised awareness about the power of going local to restore ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing.
The multiple crises we face share a common root cause: the global economic system.
For more than 40 years, Local Futures has raised awareness about the power of going local to restore ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing.
— Charles Eisenstein
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On 11 October 2022, the International Monetary Fund’s head of research, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, warned that today’s...
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A collective of urban families in the Jordanian capital, Amman, are reclaiming their food sovereignty by cultivating native wheat...
Labor unions and social movements in Brazil have been fighting a pitched battle to stop their far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro...
It can be difficult to imagine a world – or even a city – without hunger. It seems so endemic to the world we live in that it can appear...
The global food system is broken. It is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it is the leading driver...
Today, there exists what in my estimation is an unprecedented moment for altering the course of human history. The hopes...
Graham Biyáál will never forget the taste of his mother’s traditional blue corn mush. An earthy, hearty dish made with ground-up...
When you read a book with which you profoundly disagree, I guess it’s usually best just to shrug, put it back on the shelf and...
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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THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
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