8:00 am - 5:00 pm People’s Food Summit October 16 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm AEDT People’s Food Summit The People’s Food Summit on October 16 is an event organized by yet another powerful coalition of organizations – including Local Futures, IFOAM, Regeneration International, Navdanya and others – calling for a shift in food and agriculture towards local sovereignty […]
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Lokalekonomidagarna 2021 October 20 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm AEDT Lokalekonomidagarna 2021 Local Economy Days 2021 is a two-day online conference, October 20-21, focusing on the theme ‘Local restart – how do we build robust communities?’ Helena Norberg-Hodge will be speaking on October 20 (spoken language is Swedish). Hosted by Lokalekonomidagarna
Featured 9:00 am - 6:40 pm Economics of Happiness Conference, Jeonju – South Korea Featured October 21 @ 9:00 am - 6:40 pm KST Economics of Happiness Conference, Jeonju – South Korea Our 7th Economics of Happiness Conference in Jeonju will happen online on October 21, 2021. The conference program includes keynote speeches and panel discussions on the topic of ‘Climate Crisis and Localization’. The event will provide a forum for discussions […]
Featured 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Localization Guide Launch Event Featured October 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT Localization Guide Launch Event "What can I do to localize?" At Local Futures, we get asked this question a lot - and we now have an answer for you. 146 Answers, to be exact. In this free hour-long event, learn more about the Localization […]
Featured Featured October 21 @ 9:00 am - 6:40 pm KST Economics of Happiness Conference, Jeonju – South Korea
Blog Author Index Author Blog Posts Julia Adeney Thomas Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change” - February 6, 2019 Nicholas Agar The Problem with Techno-Optimism - October 25, 2017 Samuel Alexander Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it - April 18, 2017 Sonam Angchuk Planet Local: The Secret of Happiness - March 6, 2014 Iishana Artra, PhD Is 5G Worth the Risks? - April 26, 2019 Geneviève Azam From Growth to Degrowth: a brief history - May 11, 2017 Julie Baber The changing nature of milk - March 1, 2021 Lotfi Belkhir How smartphones are heating up the planet - July 11, 2018 Walden Bello Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’ - March 28, 2020 John Boik, PhD An Economy of Meaning – or Bust - February 16, 2017 David Bollier The Commons, Short and Sweet - July 31, 2018 To Find Alternatives to Capitalism, Think Small - October 4, 2017 Ellen Brown The Key to the Environmental Crisis is Beneath Our Feet - January 28, 2020 Shaun Chamberlin Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future - November 11, 2016 Scott Chaskey Stories and Seeds: Excerpts from Seedtime - September 28, 2014 Thinles Chondol COVID-19: An Opportunity for Localization - September 3, 2020 Paul Cienfuegos Democrats & Republicans Uniting to Oppose Corporate Rule?! - February 11, 2015 Juan Cole Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year - March 24, 2020 Henry Coleman Indigenous and feminine wisdom: an interview with Ella Noah Bancroft - October 21, 2021 Birdsong as a Compass - February 7, 2021 What to Do When the World is on Fire - September 24, 2020 Gerald Coles Education, jobs and capitalism - January 15, 2019 Ronnie Cummins The 9% lie: industrial food and climate change - July 26, 2019 Herman Daly Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits - March 21, 2019 Kris De Decker We Can’t Do It Ourselves - December 10, 2019 How Circular is the Circular Economy? - November 7, 2018 Francesca de Gasparis Industrial Agriculture is No Solution for Africa - September 3, 2021 Kunzang Deachen Progress and the modernization of Ladakh - December 18, 2020 Narayan Dhakal Indigenous Knowledge and Global Wellness - July 17, 2014 Saving Tigers: local knowledge and conservation - March 31, 2014 Mark Dwortzan A wakeup call for local resilience - April 14, 2020 Degrowth Editorial Team A Degrowth Perspective on the Coronavirus Crisis - April 21, 2020 Debra Efroymson Localization and Carfree Cities - October 16, 2021 Charles Eisenstein Source Temple and the Great Reset - July 8, 2021 Odious Debt (and what we can do about it) - March 23, 2016 Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity - September 20, 2014 Brian Emerson Introducing the Local Bites Podcast - January 10, 2014 Localists of the world, unite! An urgent call to join the movement against the TPP & TTIP - November 17, 2013 Arturo Escobar Farewell to Development: An interview with Arturo Escobar - March 9, 2018 Erica Etelson From Local Pants to Local Energy: The Case for Localizing Our Economies - September 15, 2016 Janette Evans Cooking fresh for the planet - May 3, 2018 Don Fitz Is Alternative Energy the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe? - July 30, 2021 Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal - November 27, 2019 What is ‘Energy Denial’? - September 17, 2019 Annelie Fitzgerald Ten reasons to be concerned about 5G - July 24, 2020 David Fleming Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future - November 11, 2016 Edward Fullbrook Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse - June 13, 2019 Local Futures World Localization Day is back! - May 13, 2021 After Paris: Climate Change or System Change? - December 15, 2015 #Occupy Happiness - November 14, 2011 Occupy Main Street! - October 24, 2011 Edgardo Garcia Why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit - August 14, 2021 Johanna Garnett An Eco-Farm in Myanmar (Burma): Saving the World with Organic Agriculture - December 10, 2014 Steven Gorelick Thinking Outside the Grid - November 6, 2019 Technology and Its Discontents - January 27, 2018 Our Obsolescent Economy - July 11, 2017 The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than A Smartphone - February 25, 2017 Globalization and the American Dream - May 27, 2016 Changing Everything - April 5, 2016 Branding Tradition: A Bittersweet Tale of Corporate Capitalism - February 5, 2016 Current Trade Treaties: “a revolution against law” - October 22, 2015 Resisting the Technocratic Paradigm - July 23, 2015 The Global Economy’s “Impeccable Logic” - March 12, 2015 GRAIN Net zero and ‘nature-based’ solutions: corporate greenwashing - March 18, 2021 How the World Bank helped re-establish colonial plantations - December 2, 2020 Origin of Covid-19: industrial livestock? - April 7, 2020 Step Aside Agribusiness: It’s Time for Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis - October 1, 2019 Rob Greenfield My Year Without Industrial Food - January 17, 2020 Ashley Gripper We Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not new to Black people - July 4, 2020 Jason Hickel How bad is global inequality, really? - March 16, 2019 Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance - December 11, 2018 Why Growth Can’t be Green - September 18, 2018 In Defense of Degrowth - December 14, 2017 Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica - November 9, 2017 Regenerative Agriculture: our best shot at cooling the planet? - January 6, 2017 Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can - September 29, 2016 Stephen Hinton Inner Transition: an introduction - September 8, 2016 Tom Imber Ten reasons to be concerned about 5G - July 24, 2020 Catherine Ingram Keeping Your Cool in a World on Fire - August 31, 2014 Alex Jensen The Folly of Farm-Free Food - March 1, 2020 Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico - January 26, 2019 Globalization’s Deadly Footprint - February 22, 2018 Globalization’s Blowback - August 9, 2017 Trump’s Populist Deceit - January 24, 2017 The Great Deceleration - December 2, 2016 A Tribute to Eduardo Galeano - May 8, 2015 From Global to Local in India - May 19, 2014 Planet Local: Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming - February 20, 2014 Davos: peeling back the veneer - January 20, 2014 Sean Keller Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos - May 14, 2019 Mending a History of Discrimination through “Person-to-Person Reparations” - June 22, 2018 Agriculture and Autonomy in the Middle East - February 6, 2018 Gregory (tim) Kelly Mapping the Local Economy - February 3, 2015 Christopher Ketcham Cities and Green Orthodoxy - January 28, 2021 The Curse of Bigness - April 14, 2018 Julia Kloehn Co-opting Regenerative Agriculture - March 10, 2021 Marjana Kos Peaches Help Grow Slovenia’s Gift Economy - September 28, 2013 Ashish Kothari What does self-reliance really mean? Amazing stories from India’s villages - July 30, 2020 We Will Survive the Coronavirus. Will We Survive Ourselves? - April 10, 2020 From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods - June 30, 2016 Towards Alternatives: Radical Ecological Democracy (Part 2) - March 20, 2014 Towards Alternatives: Radical Ecological Democracy (Part 1) - March 14, 2014 Frances Moore Lappé Farming for a Small Planet - January 9, 2018 Kristen Lawless How Industrial Food Makes Us More Vulnerable to COVID-19 - November 4, 2020 Anja Lyngbaek Saving Japan’s Seed Heritage from “Free Trade” - March 5, 2019 Groomed to Consume - December 18, 2018 Born to Buy? - January 2, 2014 Stacy Malkan Bill Gates has radical plans to change our food. What’s on the menu? - June 17, 2021 Gabriel Manyangadze Industrial Agriculture is No Solution for Africa - September 3, 2021 Isabel Marlens The Farms of the Future - June 4, 2019 Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade? - February 4, 2017 Matt Mellen 5 ways coronavirus could help humanity survive the ecological crisis - March 20, 2020 Kylie Mohr Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands - October 8, 2021 Chuck Nafziger Eating Well is a Revolutionary Act - October 27, 2016 Andrew Nikiforuk Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times - November 27, 2018 Ella Noah Bancroft Indigenous and feminine wisdom: an interview with Ella Noah Bancroft - October 21, 2021 Helena Norberg-Hodge What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics - August 18, 2020 Resist Globally, Renew Locally - September 24, 2019 Local is Our Future - July 18, 2019 Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment - December 6, 2018 To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction? - October 10, 2018 Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism - May 12, 2018 Book Review: From Global to Local – the Making of Things and the End of Globalization - November 2, 2017 Trump Trauma - April 4, 2017 Trump: the illusion of change - November 18, 2016 Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’ - June 13, 2016 Gracy Olmstead Can Localism Restore Sanity to Politics? - May 22, 2018 Felix Padel Adivasi Economics and Re-awakening the Indigenous Mind - August 25, 2016 John Page Building a Village: Lessons in Urban Living from South Korea - June 5, 2014 Rambo, Barbie and Wordsworth - May 13, 2010 Globalisation Explained - May 4, 2010 Chozin Palmo Young farmers in Ladakh: the future of our food - April 18, 2021 Martin Parker Bulldoze the Business School - June 7, 2018 Josh Pendergrass Mental Health and Globalization: An Alternative Theory on the Mental Health Crisis - December 17, 2014 Sarah Ratliff 6 Reasons People of Color Should Grow Their Own Food - September 20, 2021 Rupert Read Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’ - June 13, 2016 Padma Rigzin Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective - April 24, 2020 Douglas Rushkoff Facebook: Making Us Dumber - March 27, 2018 L. M. Sacasas Is resistance futile? The myth of tech inevitability - April 27, 2021 What did we lose when we lost the stars? - February 22, 2021 Iowa, Pseudo-Events, and Hyperreality - February 5, 2020 John Savage Livin’ the Screen Life: #productsmakemehappy - January 19, 2018 Suprabha Seshan Locking Down Leviathan - May 1, 2020 Old Mother Forest - January 1, 2019 Strangely Like Gulag: Schooling and the Industrial Machine - July 16, 2016 Shail Shrestha The Paris Climate Talks: A Nepali View - March 15, 2016 Aseem Shrivastava Reading Tagore to Become Human - August 15, 2018 Michael H. Shuman Adopt a Local Business - May 14, 2020 Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction - April 3, 2020 Katie Singer Help needed: 41 servants and counting - June 12, 2021 Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles - May 21, 2019 Jigmet Singge Young farmers in Ladakh: the future of our food - April 18, 2021 James Skinner Agrivillages: an interview with James Skinner - September 2, 2016 Chris Smaje Making the Case for a Small Farm Future - November 26, 2020 What if we only ate food from local farms? - February 14, 2020 Raphaël Souchier The Post-Wall Street Era Will be Local - September 11, 2015 Kristen Steele Disaster Localization: a Constructive Response to Climate Chaos - October 22, 2019 How Globalization Divides Us: Perspectives on Brexit from a Dual Citizen - July 9, 2016 They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity - November 18, 2014 Place-based Everywhere: Lessons from Flood Wall Street - October 5, 2014 The Super Bowl of Subsidies - January 30, 2014 Globalization Produces Sushi … and Slavery - September 18, 2013 Local Banking for Global Change - November 4, 2011 Tsering Stobdan Lockdown in Ladakh - October 8, 2020 Mark C. Taylor Where Time Went (and why we have so little left) - March 13, 2018 Francis Thicke What Does “Organic” Mean? - November 21, 2017 Kyla Tienhaara Trade treaties and the climate emergency - February 15, 2021 Colin Tudge CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit for Change - March 20, 2018 Jim Tull Will the Poor Always Be With Us? - March 18, 2017 Positive Thinking in a Dark Age - December 23, 2016 Catherine Tumber Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside - September 5, 2019 Melissa Valdivia In Peru, ancestral values shine during COVID-19 crisis - August 8, 2020 Thomas Wallgren Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’ - June 13, 2016 Debbie Weingarten How to fix a food system that’s not designed to feed people - January 19, 2021 Sophie Weiss Land Grabbing and the Threat to Local Land Rights - August 17, 2014 Judy Wicks Loving Local: Place, Economy and Community - October 19, 2014 Susan Witt Local Finance Made Simple - April 6, 2018 Damaris Zehner Convenience, Community, and Late-Stage Capitalism - June 26, 2020 Our Robot Overlords - May 23, 2020 The Real Economy - October 9, 2019 Variety, Survival, and the Revenge of the Luddites - August 8, 2019 Liz Zeidler Ten Years After the Crash: more of the same, or a new beginning? - August 23, 2018 Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedIn
