Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier

By Local Futures Staff, Local Futures

A short introduction to localization.

Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change

By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Richard Heinberg, Local Futures

This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President.

After Brexit and Trump: don’t Demonise; Localise!

By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read, The Ecologist

Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era.

The Free Trade Fallacy

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

One of the major currents underlying 2016’s political turmoil in Europe and the United States, in fact, has been a sharp disagreement about the value of free trade.

Rural Sociology

By Wayne Roberts

For mutual interests to come to the fore, each city and each rural area surrounding a city needs to become intertwined and re-entangled.

The European Union and the Misery of Bigness

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

Years ago, the great Austrian economist Leopold Kohr argued that overwhelming evidence from science, culture and biology all pointed to one unending truth: things improve with an unending process of division.

Building Walls Cannot be the Answer

By Vincent Liegey, Anisabel Veillot, Degrowth.de

As much as building walls cannot be the answer to the horrible situation of refugees seeking asylum in Europe, it cannot be the means of choice for protecting national economies either.

7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification

By Marjorie Kelly, YES! magazine

In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by.

The Benefits of Localism

By Steve Dubb, Michael Shuman, Community-Wealth.org

A “pollinator” is a social enterprise with an explicit mission to support other local businesses—and it does so in a way that is self-financing.

Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus

By Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future

Whatever we do in Cyprus doesn’t really stay in Cyprus. It’s like the effect gets multiplied and spread, from here to the nearby regions, and from there on.

The Circular Economy’s Missing Ingredient: Local

By John Mulrow, Yardfarmers blog

There is need for a new level of nuance — a local circular economy — one, in which materials, ideas and feedback flow cyclically and locally.

New visions of global solidarity

By Staff, STWR, Share The World's Resources

In this latest editorial we’re highlighting some of the various ways in which a call for sharing is being expressed in the field of international development, especially in relation to calls for more and better overseas aid.