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Author archive: Alex Jensen

Alex Jensen is a Researcher and Project Coordinator at Local Futures. He has worked in the US and India, where he co-ordinates Local Futures' Ladakh Project. He represents Local Futures on the core group of the Vikalp Sangam/Alternatives India initiative. He has worked with cultural affirmation and agro-biodiversity projects in campesino communities in a number of countries, and is active in environmental health/anti-toxics work.

The Folly of Farm-Free Food

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. “Beware of simple solutions to complex problems. That is a crucial lesson from history; a lesson that intelligent people in every age keep failing to learn.”[1] Having wisely counseled thus just 5 years ago in a trenchant critique of ecomodernism, environmental journalist George Monbiot’s recent op-ed […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: agriculture, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, local food, technology

Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up to unfettered corporate investment and imports  –  to an extent matched by few other countries. […]

Filed Under: Community, Development, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview, Localization, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, community, corporations, development, farming, globalization, health, indigenous, local food, trade agreements

Globalization’s Deadly Footprint

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent of all deaths worldwide – 3 times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 15 […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Health Tagged With: climate change, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, free trade, globalization, health

Globalization’s Blowback

A recent study of air pollution in the western United States made a startling finding: despite a 50 percent drop over the past 25 years in US emissions of smog-producing chemicals like nitrogen oxides (NOx), smog actually increased during that period in the rural US West – even in such ‘pristine’ environments as Yellowstone National […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Development, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporations, development, economic growth, pollution

Trump’s Populist Deceit

While misogyny, racism, and ethnic taunts were conspicuous signposts on Donald Trump’s path to the White House, much of that road was paved with “populist”, “anti-establishment” and “anti-globalization” rhetoric. Trump’s inaugural address featured numerous populist lines (e.g. “What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: corporate control, democracy, globalization, localist, localization, populism

The Great Deceleration

In 2015, a major study of 24 indicators of human activity and environmental decline titled ‘The Great Acceleration’ concluded that, “The last 60 years have without doubt seen the most profound transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind”.[1] We have all seen aspects of these trends, but to […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, development, economic growth, globalization, pollution, resource use, waste

A Tribute to Eduardo Galeano

“Plastic delights, plastic dreams. In the paradise promised to all and reserved for a few, things are more and more important and people less and less so. The ends have been kidnapped by the means: things buy you, cars drive you, computers program you, television watches you.” — Eduardo Galeano, from Upside Down: A Primer […]

Filed Under: Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: class, consumerism, culture, democracy, globalization, happiness, inequality, mental health, poverty

From Global to Local in India

“The Future is Fast. We are Faster.” This ubiquitous billboard for a tech company neatly captures the zeitgeist in modern-day Bangalore, and rapidly-urbanizing India generally. Today, Bangalore’s erstwhile appellation as India‘s ‘garden city’ seems sadly anachronistic. To arrive at the Visthar Academy of Justice and Peace Studies on the outskirts of Bangalore – where we […]

Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Economics of Happiness, globalization, Planet Local

Planet Local: Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming

We are pleased to introduce our new Planet Local series, showcasing localization initiatives around the world. This blog is the first of three by authors from India to celebrate the occasion of our upcoming Economics of Happiness conference in Bangalore, March 15.  Excerpted by Alex Jensen On the 27th January, 2014, Bhaskar Save, aka Save-guruji […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming Tagged With: Planet Local

Davos: peeling back the veneer

Scrolling through the website of the World Economic Forum – convening this week in Davos, Switzerland – one might confuse the premier platform for global capital with a savvy and hip think tank, or perhaps a philanthropic aid and development charity. The content is carefully curated to sedate and comfort. The right buzzwords are there: “impact […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Development, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: globalization

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