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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
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 Localisation
- 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
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
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
Charles Eisenstein
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
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
David Fleming
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future
- November 11, 2016
Edward Fullbrook
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
- June 13, 2019
Local Futures
After Paris: Climate Change or System Change?
- December 15, 2015
#Occupy Happiness
- November 14, 2011
Occupy Main Street!
- October 24, 2011
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
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
The Curse of Bigness
- April 14, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles
- May 21, 2019
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
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
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

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