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How to fix a food system that’s not designed to feed people

Earlier this year, Americans learned what it looks like when a food system reliant on industrial agriculture, near monopolies and exploited laborers breaks down. Just two months into the pandemic, the meat industry in the most powerful nation in the world was buckling. In March and April, COVID-19 swept through meatpacking plants, infecting thousands of […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Food and Farming, Health Tagged With: agriculture, corporate control, corporations, farming, global food, jobs, local food

Lockdown in Ladakh

I returned to my village in Ladakh when the Prime Minister announced the first lockdown in late-March. I ended up spending the whole lockdown period in the village assisting my family with various agricultural and pastoral tasks. This was the first time I had spent so much time in the village since my childhood. This […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Development, Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: agriculture, culture, development, farming, health, livelihoods, well-being

COVID-19: An Opportunity for Localisation

Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was believed that globalisation would lead to development and prosperity. However, the whole scenario has changed now with almost every part of the world under some form of lockdown, which has posed a major challenge to the fulfillment of the demand for various goods and services. […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Health Tagged With: economics, farming, global food, globalization, happiness, health, local food

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 Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not new to Black people

For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down. Today, agriculture still serves an important role in the lives of Black people, which is why we see urban agriculture projects and programs in Philadelphia, Detroit, […]

Filed Under: Community, Food and Farming, Health, Inequality Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, local food, racism, well-being

Our Robot Overlords

A consequence of the current pandemic is an increase in computer use. Almost everyone’s feeling it: students are doing classes by Zoom, employees are online for team meetings, musicians are performing to their phones, consumers are ordering food, clothes, and a hundred other things to be delivered, television shows recorded in front of live audiences […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Health, Technology Tagged With: technology, well-being

Locking Down Leviathan

The streets of Jayanagar, a residential area in Bengaluru, are strewn with spring flowers. Yellow copper pods, lilac crape myrtles, pink-and-white honges and orange gulmohurs blaze overhead and underfoot; vitality and senescence mirroring each other. The normally hard surfaces – kerb, pavement, road and concrete – are softened by fallen petals and the duff of […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Health, Inequality Tagged With: civilization, community, culture, health, indigenous, well-being

A wakeup call for local resilience

The lead article in a recent edition of my hometown newspaper highlighted the efforts of a local teen and a sewing business to create 1,000 masks for area hospitals. While this is a wonderful development, it shouldn’t have come to this. The urgent and growing demand for N95 masks and other medical supplies for treating […]

Filed Under: Community, Coronavirus, Free Trade and Globalization, Health, Localization Tagged With: globalization, health, localization

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

Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death but vast economic and social uncertainty of a sort only the most elderly among us remembers (the Great Depression and World War II). My father is 90 and when I called him a child of […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Health, Inner transformation Tagged With: depression, happiness, health, mental health, pandemic, well-being

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