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Five bad arguments against agrarian localism

Blog 'Perhaps incorrectly, or even arrogantly, I’m anticipating that my soon-to-be-published book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future might elicit pushback from those unconvinced by its arguments for agrarian localism' by Chris Smaje. Photo by Vitolda Klein on Unsplash.

Perhaps incorrectly, or even arrogantly, I’m anticipating that my soon-to-be-published book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future might elicit pushback from those unconvinced by its arguments for agrarian localism. If it does, obviously that’s fine. It’s a polemical sort of […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, farming, global food, livelihoods, local food, sustainability

Stop Solar Geoengineering

Blog Stop Solar Geoengineering by ETC Group. Photo by Joao Barbosa on Unsplash.

Geoengineering is the intentional, large-scale technological manipulation of the Earth’s systems, often discussed as a techno-fix for combating climate change. Climate geoengineering technologies include so-called solar radiation management, greenhouse gas removal and sequestration and weather modification. None of these technofixes […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Technology Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, indigenous, sustainability, technology

Yard to table: building a local food economy

Blog Yard to Table by Carly Gayle. Photo by Carly Gayle.

Inside the Washington, DC beltway – a densely populated area of roughly 20 by 20 miles – trees removed due to disease, death, and development contained 200 million board feet of usable lumber in 2008. That’s enough wood to frame […]

Filed Under: Cities, Environment, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: artisan production, community, jobs, livelihoods, localization, sustainability

Hin Lad Nai: A Successful Model of Indigenous Resistance

Blog Hin Lad Nai by A Growing Culture

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a couple of days with an Indigenous hillside tribe here in Thailand called Hin Lad Nai, and I wanted to share some of that story with you today. It’s the […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Indigenous worldview, Local food, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, development, farming, indigenous, local food, South, sustainability

Ecological Economics

Ecological Economics by Herman Daly

Herman Daly, who died in October of this year, was for 60 years a powerful and articulate critic of mainstream economic thinking. Along with an early stint working at the World Bank, Daly had a distinguished career in academia, authored […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Economics Tagged With: degrowth, economic growth, economics, sustainability

The food shortage solution in your backyard

Blog 'The food shortage solution in your backyard' by Ellen Brown. Photo Dacha Garden.

A confluence of crises – lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war – have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the […]

Filed Under: Environment, Food and Farming, Health, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, global food, sustainability, well-being

The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture

Blog The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture

Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of those rare ideas which combine transformative potential with an elegant simplicity. The CSA model of funding and sustaining locally-rooted agriculture has grown exponentially around the globe over the past four decades. Since the first […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Local food, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food, new economy, sustainability

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 inner dimension of climate adaptation

The inner dimension of climate adaptation - blog Local Futures

Capitalism in its earliest incarnation dates back to the end of Europe’s medieval period. ‘Growth’, such as it was, first manifested itself in the innovation and creativity of the Renaissance, while economic expansion in the commonly understood sense was to […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Inner transformation Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, economic growth, sustainability, well-being

As we consider our future…

As we consider our future... - blog Local Futures

Ask not for energy or goods that depend on international supply chains.   Ask not for solar power, wind power or battery electric storage (BESS). Ask not for e-vehicles (EVs) or smartphones. These can’t be manufactured without fossil fuels, extractions, […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Localization, Technology Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, economic growth, pollution, renewable energy, sustainability, technology

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