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What does self-reliance really mean? Amazing stories from India’s villages

Not so long ago, Dalit women farmers in Telangana used to face hunger and deprivation. Today, they have contributed foodgrains for pandemic relief. Farmers on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border have been sending organic produce to Bengaluru even during the lockdown. And Adivasi villages in central India are using community funds to take care of migrant […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Democracy, Development, Food and Farming, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, culture, democracy, farming, health, livelihoods, localization, well-being

Ten reasons to be concerned about 5G

Once cast, 5G’s inescapable net will have consequences on everything from the night sky down to the cells of our bodies. With two legal cases against 5G roll-out getting underway in the UK,[1] here are just ten of many reasons why 5G is such a bad idea – and not one of them has anything […]

Filed Under: Environment, Health, Technology Tagged With: democracy, health, technology, well-being

We Will Survive the Coronavirus. Will We Survive Ourselves?

What an astonishing slap in humanity’s face, this coronavirus. But the silver lining is that it is also a rude wake up call. I say ‘silver lining’, for at the centre of this is a massive humanitarian crisis of illnesses and deaths –  and for working classes who cannot switch to ‘online’ work, whose workplaces […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Democracy, Environment, Health, Indigenous worldview, Inequality, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, democracy, globalization, health, indigenous

Iowa, Pseudo-Events, and Hyperreality

The Iowa caucus affair last night was a masterclass in hyperreality. The relevant facts are as follows. It was the long-anticipated kickoff to the primary season in an ever-expanding election cycle that now seems more or less co-terminous with the president’s four-year term. Iowa has an outsized place in this process, as it traditionally holds […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Technology Tagged With: culture, democracy, technology

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. A recent discussion forum among the members of The Great Transition Network focused on “The Promise and Pitfalls of Localism.” My friend and colleague Brian Tokar started the discussion by noting that even though there is a resurgence of progressive action at the local level, “reactionary […]

Filed Under: Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: community, democracy, globalization, health, localization, well-being

Local is Our Future

[The following is an excerpt from the first chapter of Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness, a new book by Helena Norberg-Hodge, published by Local Futures in July 2019.] For our species to have a future, it must be local. The good news is that the path to such a future […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Community, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Health, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, community, corporate control, democracy, economic growth, economics, globalization, livelihoods, local food, localization

Saving Japan’s Seed Heritage from “Free Trade”

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This blog is also available in Greek, Russian and Spanish. I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a keynote speech about the birth […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Resistance and Renewal, Uncategorized Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, democracy, farming, free trade, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food, trade agreements

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements – from the Leave camp’s now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release £350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that Brexit would leave the UK “permanently […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, New economy Tagged With: climate change, community, consumerism, corporate control, democracy, economic growth, globalization, localization, new economy, trade agreements, well-being

Reading Tagore to Become Human

In 1922, Rabindranath Tagore published one of his most important works, the play Mukta-Dhara. The story, rich in symbolism, is a simple yet powerful one. A child of mysterious birth is found abandoned by a mountain waterfall. He is adopted by the royal family and raised as the crown-prince, Abhijit. As he turns into a […]

Filed Under: Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Indigenous worldview, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: climate change, community, consumerism, corporations, democracy, development, freedom, happiness, indigenous

The Commons, Short and Sweet

I am always trying to figure out how to explain the idea of the commons to newcomers who find it hard to grasp.  Here is a fairly short overview, which I think gets to the nub of things. The commons is…. A social system for the long-term stewardship of resources that preserves shared values and […]

Filed Under: Community, New economy Tagged With: commons, community, culture, democracy, economics, livelihoods, localization, new economy

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