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Supply chain failures: another reason for localized economies

Blog Local Futures - Supply Chain Failures. Photo by Chuttersnap on Unsplash.

The mainstream media – television, print and digital – routinely cycle through the litany of crises gripping the world. One week they’ll tell us about the latest climate disaster. The next, the focus may shift to the war in Ukraine. […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, New economy, Transportation Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, economics, free trade, global food, globalization, jobs, trade agreements

The dirty truth about clean energy

The dirty truth about clean energy by Carlos Zorrilla - Local Futures

Everyone knows what needs to be done to bring down CO2 levels; pump less of it into the atmosphere. But instead of reducing overall energy consumption, the focus is on increasing ‘green’ energy consumption: electric vehicles, massive electric storage installations, […]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment, Nature Tagged With: climate change, corporations, development, indigenous, pollution, renewable energy

Repairing broken economies

Repairing Broken Economies - Local Futures

Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: to the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him devotedly around Reparatur-und […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Consumerism, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, economics, jobs, new economy, pollution, sustainability

The Flower of Transformation

The Flowers of Transformation, blog by Ashish Kothari

With growing news of war and conflict, ecological and climate catastrophe, stark inequalities, health crises related to both poverty and affluence, the authoritarianism of governments, and the increasing stranglehold of mega-corporations in all aspects of our lives, it is understandable […]

Filed Under: Community, Democracy, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: climate change, community, corporate control, corporations, democracy, economics, globalization, localization, new economy, trade agreements

On Ukraine and the failed Pax Capitalis

On Ukraine and the failed Pax Capitalis - Local Futures blog

During the previous three decades, a particularly new and ahistorical view of the world has arisen in the modern, “civilized,” capitalist West. Famously elaborated by an advisor to Ronald Reagan and later repeated by both liberal and conservative politicians, theorists, […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Energy, Free Trade and Globalization, War Tagged With: corporations, culture, democracy, globalization, technology, Ukraine, urbanization

Big farms don’t feed the world

Big Farms Don't Feed the World - Blog Local Futures

A controversy has erupted over who feeds the world. It has been general accepted knowledge that small-scale farmers, fisherfolk and pastoralists feed the vast majority of the people on earth. This was recognized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, corporations, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food

The world’s food systems are in crisis: big agribusiness is to blame

The world's food systems are in crisis - blog Local Futures

In 2017, the people of Zagora, Morocco, took to the streets in what became known as the ‘thirst revolution’. They were demanding safe drinking water and an end to the excessive use of water by big agricultural companies. In an […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Climate Change, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, banks, climate change, corporations, farming, industrial agriculture, local food, South

Putting technology in its place

Putting technology in its place - blog Local Futures

The most recent topic explored by the thinkers and activists who make up the Great Transition Network was “Technology and the Future”. As writer after writer posted their thoughts, it was heartening to see that almost all recognize that technology […]

Filed Under: Development, Technology Tagged With: corporations, democracy, depression, farming, livelihoods, mental health, technology

On Technology’s Past and Future

On Technology's Past and Future

Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements. Some contributions that have significantly shaped my own thinking include: […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Energy, Food and Farming, Technology Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, energy, farming, industrial agriculture, technology

Appropriate Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth

Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth blog by Alex Jensen - Local Futures

The industrial-capitalist-technological system is characterized by perpetual growth through excessive production, relentless marketing and public relations to expand markets and demand through consumerism.[1] In the process, novel ‘needs’ are manufactured and the boundaries and norms of comfort and convenience are […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Community, Development, Health, Localization, Technology Tagged With: community, consumerism, corporations, degrowth, indigenous, sustainability, technology, well-being

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