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Why we must abolish the Energy Charter Treaty

Greta Thunberg made international headlines this week when she and other climate activists were briefly detained by police at a protest against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. Thunberg was among the thousands of protesters who arrived to […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, globalization, pollution, renewable energy, trade agreements

Taking pensions out of financial markets

Blog 'Taking pensions out of financial markets' by GRAIN, A Growing Culture and Kevin SkerrettLabor unions and social movements in Brazil have been fighting a pitched battle to stop their far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, from pursuing his drive to privatize many of the country’s most important public assets. But last year they suffered a [...]

Filed Under: Environment, Livelihoods and jobs, Local finance, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: corporate control, financial system, jobs

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 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

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

Not on the agenda in Glasgow: real climate action

What can we expect to come out of the Glasgow COP meetings?  If the pattern established by previous COPs is repeated, not much.  Dire statistics will be cited, pleas for action will be heard, earnest pronouncements will be made, non-binding […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, globalization, happiness, health, industrial agriculture, local food, localization

Indigenous and feminine wisdom: an interview with Ella Noah Bancroft

Indigenous and feminine wisdom with Ella-Noah Bancroft by Henry Coleman Local Futures

Ella Noah Bancroft is a descendant of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation (in present-day Australia) and has bloodlines to England, Poland and Scotland. She is an Indigenous artist, storyteller, mentor and active advocate for The Decolonization movement. She is […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous worldview, Localization Tagged With: climate change, community, culture, depression, localization, sustainability, well-being

Localization and Carfree Cities

Carfree Cities and Localization - blog Local Futures

The future is local. There is a growing international movement to resist the dominant paradigms of globalization at all costs and unbridled capitalism, to restore strong local economies and tight-knit communities. But in order to have strong local economies and […]

Filed Under: Cities, Climate Change, Environment, Localization, The Economics of Happiness, Transportation Tagged With: climate change, community, corporations, health, South, well-being

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

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