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Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands

Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands - blog Local Futures

Laughter and the chirping of grasshoppers mingled on a mild August morning as several young women, members of the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes, searched for sweetgrass, running vegetation through their fingers as they tried to determine whether they held satiny sweetgrass or […]

Filed Under: Education, Environment, Indigenous worldview, Livelihoods and jobs, Nature Tagged With: climate change, community, culture, happiness, indigenous, nature, well-being, youth

Community-oriented life at human scale

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The documentary Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (John Page, Chris Breemen, Helena Norberg-Hodge & Eric Walton, 1993) provides an excellent introduction to the local, human scale traditions in Ladakh, and how local communities have been affected by the industrialised notion […]

Filed Under: Community, Education, The Economics of Happiness Tagged With: community, culture, Economics of Happiness, health, indigenous, mental health, well-being

Post-pandemic development: a Ladakhi perspective

A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her village in Leh, Ladakh, by phone from Delhi. Around that time, the news of rising infections […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Development, Education, Food and Farming, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, culture, farming, global food, indigenous, local food, localization, well-being

Education, jobs and capitalism

American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, economics, education, jobs, livelihoods, technology

Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times

By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of the illusion of democracy, while smartphones damage young brains and erode the nature of discourse in the family. Meanwhile […]

Filed Under: Education, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, technology

Bulldoze the Business School

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs, Local finance, New economy Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, economics, jobs, new economy, sustainability

CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit for Change

In Britain, these days, all the essential endeavors that are supposed to promote general wellbeing and what is known as “civilization” are, it is widely agreed, in crisis: health and social services; housing; education; energy; transport; and of course, though […]

Filed Under: Education, Environment, Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, brexit, climate change, community, democracy, economics, farming, localization, new economy, sustainability

Strangely Like Gulag: Schooling and the Industrial Machine

For many years, I’ve seen more and more of my rural and tribal neighbors pack their children off to school. Now, every morning between 8:00 and 9:00 am in this upwardly-mobile-yet-backward district, the country roads are full of children commuting […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs

Rambo, Barbie and Wordsworth

By John Page The scene is a classroom in Leh, Ladakh, twelve thousand feet up in the western Himalayas. A young teacher stands in front of her class of 12 year-olds. “I appreciate the poetry of …”, she starts, inviting […]

Filed Under: Education, Indigenous worldview

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