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 Bayo Akomalafe They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity - November 18, 2014 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 Lyric Aquino Food sovereignty on the Navajo Nation - August 31, 2022 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 Jorn Bettin Community-oriented life at human scale - March 30, 2021 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 food shortage solution in your backyard - June 15, 2022 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 Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies - June 8, 2022 Art as Activism: an interview with Brenna Quinlan - November 11, 2021 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 Lorena Cotza The world’s food systems are in crisis: big agribusiness is to blame - February 1, 2022 A Growing Culture What if food were treated as a human right? - September 28, 2022 Can small-scale farmers feed the world? - August 16, 2022 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 Young farmers in Ladakh: the future of our food - April 18, 2021 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 The Gospel of Progress - July 20, 2022 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 Mental Health and Globalization: An Alternative Theory on the Mental Health Crisis - December 17, 2014 An Eco-Farm in Myanmar (Burma): Saving the World with Organic Agriculture - December 10, 2014 Big Picture Activism - October 26, 2014 Loving Local: Place, Economy and Community - October 19, 2014 Stories and Seeds: Excerpts from Seedtime - September 28, 2014 Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity - September 20, 2014 Ice Cream, Shamans, and Climate Change - September 14, 2014 #Occupy Happiness - November 14, 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 Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies - June 8, 2022 Not on the agenda in Glasgow: real climate action - November 4, 2021 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 GRAIN An agribusiness greenwashing glossary - September 14, 2022 Lurching from food crisis to food crisis - July 8, 2022 Big farms don’t feed the world - February 15, 2022 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 Ouafa Haddioui The world’s food systems are in crisis: big agribusiness is to blame - February 1, 2022 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 Appropriate Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth - November 30, 2021 Not on the agenda in Glasgow: real climate action - November 4, 2021 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 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 The Flower of Transformation - March 23, 2022 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 Elizabeth Mpofu Why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit - August 14, 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 Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies - June 8, 2022 Putting technology in its place - January 25, 2022 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 Gracy Olmstead Can Localism Restore Sanity to Politics? - May 22, 2018 Felix Padel Adivasi Economics and Re-awakening the Indigenous Mind - August 25, 2016 Arnold Padilla Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs? - May 6, 2021 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 Brenna Quinlan Art as Activism: an interview with Brenna Quinlan - November 11, 2021 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 John Reed The inner dimension of climate adaptation - January 19, 2022 Padma Rigzin Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective - April 24, 2020 Tarn Rodgers Johns Co-creating urban, regenerative futures - May 20, 2021 Douglas Rushkoff Facebook: Making Us Dumber - March 27, 2018 L. M. Sacasas Attending to the world - February 23, 2022 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 Kaja Šeruga Repairing broken economies - March 31, 2022 Suprabha Seshan Pandemic Blues - April 20, 2022 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 As we consider our future… - December 15, 2021 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 Of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism - August 3, 2022 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 Jared Spears The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture - April 6, 2022 Christian Stalberg Localization and Buen Vivir - September 9, 2022 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 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 Brian Tokar On Technology’s Past and Future - December 29, 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 Rhyd Wildermuth On Ukraine and the failed Pax Capitalis - February 28, 2022 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 Carlos Zorrilla The dirty truth about clean energy - May 25, 2022 Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedIn
