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Alex Jensen

Alex Jensen is a Researcher and Project Coordinator at Local Futures. He has worked in the US and India, where he co-ordinates Local Futures' Ladakh Project. He represents Local Futures on the core group of the Vikalp Sangam/Alternatives India initiative. He has worked with cultural affirmation and agro-biodiversity projects in campesino communities in a number of countries, and is active in environmental health/anti-toxics work.

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Appropriate Technology, Traditional Cultures and Degrowth

By Alex Jensen, Local Futures

Traditional/original AT, based on communal social arrangements, hand-crafted from local, natural materials that cultures have used since centuries mostly for subsistence purposes, satisfies practically all of the principles of deep sustainability.

  • December 14, 2021
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Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico

By Alex Jensen, Local Futures

This is one of the signal lessons of the inspiring work of Tosepan: that a culture of solidarity — fortified by cooperative(s) providing for material and cultural needs — deepens democracy, and that this in turn makes it very hard for predatory capital to enter.

  • February 21, 2019

Globalization’s Deadly Footprint

By Alex Jensen, Local Futures

A global perspective – where true costs cannot be fobbed off on the poor and colonized – is necessary for gaining a meaningful and accurate picture of the relationship between wealth, growth, development and environmental integrity and sustainability.

  • February 26, 2018

Globalization’s Blowback

By Alex Jensen, Local Futures

Now, in addition to the products that magically appear on Western store shelves absolutely shorn of history and provenance, much of the hitherto distant pollution emitted in their production has also arrived. It has come home to roost. Globalization’s blowback.

  • August 10, 2017
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The Great Deceleration

By Alex Jensen, Local Futures/ISEC

The 'Great Acceleration' of economic activity in the past 60 years has led to a series of interlocking crises. Here's why a Great Deceleration is necessary for us "to live again with affection and beauty on this earth."

  • December 2, 2016
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Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming

By Bharat Mansata, Alex Jensen, The Economics of Happiness Blog

Save’s way of farming and teachings are rooted in his deep understanding of the symbiotic relationships in nature, which he is ever happy to share freely (and still very enthusiastically!)

  • February 25, 2014

Davos: peeling back the veneer

By Alex Jensen, The Economics of Happiness Blog, International Society for Ecology and Culture

Scrolling through the website of the World Economic Forum – convening this week in Davos, Switzerland – one might confuse the premier platform for global capital with a savvy and hip think tank, or perhaps a philanthropic aid and development charity. The content is carefully curated to sedate and comfort.

  • January 22, 2014
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