By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resilience.org
The far-reaching solution of a global to local shift can move us beyond the left-right political theater to link hands in a diverse and united people's movement for secure, meaningful livelihoods and a healthy planet.
By Grant Henninger, Strong Towns
This is where buy local is different from Buy America. Buying locally-produced products that are sold in locally-owned stores is a key strategy for building local wealth. Every dollar spent locally is a dollar of wealth retained in the community. The alternative is for that wealth to leak into other communities while making the local community poorer. This is the community expression of the saying, “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
By Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Post Carbon Institute
From a Transition perspective, a shortening of trade distances has to be a good thing, right? Bringing manufacturing back closer to where people live, thereby reducing carbon emissions, enabling more money to cycle within the national economy rather than globally? So far, so Transition… And yet.
By Local Futures Staff, Local Futures
A short introduction to localization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Marjorie Kelly, YES! magazine
In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by.
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.