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Author archive: Isabel Marlens

Isabel Marlens has worked for Local Futures as a Special Projects Coordinator. She studied Ecology and English Literature at Bennington College, has a Permaculture Design Certificate from Quail Springs Permaculture, and has done native plant conservation and education, forest ecology research, and research and writing for various documentary film and online publications in the areas of social and environmental justice.

The Farms of the Future

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Community, Environment, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, community, corporate control, economics, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, livelihoods, local food, Planet Local

Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

Trump is a catastrophe, but so was the TPP. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: corporations, democracy, free trade, globalization, TPP, trade agreements, Trump, TTIP

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