Blog 'Educating for the World We Need' by Thais Mantovani - Education is one of the most powerful forces shaping how we relate to the world and to ourselves.

Local Futures

06.06.2025

Why Agroecology Needs Social Movements by Million Belay

Blog 'Why Agroecology Needs Social Movements' by Million Belay - The 2nd East African Agroecology Conference was a three-day event...

Local Futures

06.06.2025

Trump’s Tariffs = Localist Liberation? by Local Futures

Blog 'Trump’s Tariffs = Localist Liberation?' by Helena Norberg-Hodge and Henry Coleman - Last week, on so-called “Liberation Day,”...

Local Futures

06.06.2025

Nothing Surprises Me... Everything Remains To Be Done! by Vincent Liegey

Blog 'Nothing surprises me... everything remains to be done!' by Vincent Liegey - It's been hard not to be flabbergasted by Donald Trump's...

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06.06.2025

The Global/Local Conundrum: Backing Away from Technocracy by Tom Valovic

Blog 'The Global/Local Conundrum: Backing Away from Technocracy' by Tom Valovic - Decades ago, some interesting ideas...

Local Futures

24.03.2025

Nurturing A Living Future by Darcia Narvaez

Blog 'Nurturing A Living Future' by Darcia Narvaez - In the autumn of 2024 I spent most of a week with a set of remarkable women...

Local Futures

23.03.2025

Local, Vernacular, and Alive by David Bollier

Blog 'Local, Vernacular and Alive' by David Bollier - Local landscapes were once powerful forces in their own right...

Local Futures

23.03.2025

Land, Culture, Farming, and Movements in 2025 by Edmund Frost

Blog 'Land, Culture, Farming, and Movements in 2025' by Edmund Frost - To work in agriculture in the current economic and...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

Hope is a muscle: What keeps us going, year after year by Local Futures

Blog 'Hope is a muscle: What keeps us going, year after year' by Local Futures - 2025 marks fifty years since Local Futures' story...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships by L. M. Sacasas

Blog 'Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships' by L. M. Sacasas - By many measures, it would seem that we are not okay, and, more...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with indigenous author Ailton Krenak - Local Futures

For decades, scientists have been warning that the world is heading toward catastrophic scenarios due to climate change. But Ailton Krenak refuses to think about an apocalypse. On the contrary, he argues that there are several possible futures — but […]

Local Futures

20.01.2025

Twenty years of bilaterals.org, twenty years of fighting FTAs - Local Futures

Blog 'Twenty years of bilaterals.org, twenty years of fighting FTAs' by GRAIN - When bilaterals.org was set up back in 2004, the world...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

Celebrating the Life of Stephan Harding by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Celebrating the Life of Stephan Harding by Helena Norberg-Hodge - The much-loved and respected Gaian scientist and...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

Techno Feudalism Takes Root on the Farm in India and China by GRAIN

Blog 'Techno Feudalism Takes Root on the Farm in India and China' by GRAIN - The largest tech corporations have all launched...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

'If all life mattered' by S. Bajpai and A. Kothari

'If all life mattered, what would decision making look like?' by Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari- In April 2013, the Supreme Court...

Local Futures

20.01.2025

The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World

Blog 'The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World by Helena Norberg-Hodge - we can thank small farmers...

Local Futures

10.09.2024

We Built the Technosphere. Now We Must Resist It - Local Futures

Blog 'We Built the Technosphere. Now We Must Resist It' Andrew Nikiforuk - In the 19th century the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess...

Local Futures

10.09.2024

The Caravan of Hope: Uncovering a Localising Japan by Anja Light

Blog 'The Caravan of Hope: Uncovering a Localising Japan' by Anja Light - To many, Japan is a poster child of globalisation. With its...

Local Futures

10.09.2024

Go Back and Fetch It: Sankofa and the Cult of Progress - Local Futures

Blog 'Go Back and Fetch It: Sankofa and the Cult of Progress' by Henry Coleman: Last year, I was one of an international throng of localists...

Local Futures

28.07.2024

Emissions Accounting: Cooking the Books - Local Futures

Blog 'Emissions Accounting: Cooking the Books' by Steven Gorelick - Ready for a quick climate change quiz? See if you can identify...

Local Futures

28.07.2024

Overview of Digital Technology by Kate Kheel

Blog 'Overview of Digital Technology' by Kate Kheel - the Global 5G Protest Days, World EHS Day, World Localization Day (WLD), and...

Local Futures

28.07.2024

Resisting US-India Agri-Imperialism by Alex Jensen

Blog 'Resisting US-India Agri-Imperialism' by Alex Jensen - A “high-powered US trade delegation” recently visited India to...

Local Futures

31.05.2024

Food Inflation by GRAIN

Blog 'Food Inflation: the math doesn't add up without factoring in corporate power ' by GRAIN - large farmers’ protests broke out...

Local Futures

31.05.2024

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now by Richard Heinberg

Blog 'Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now' by Richared Heinberg - the promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils...

Local Futures

31.05.2024

A Tale of Localization in Two Cities by Debra Efroymson

Blog 'A Tale of Localization in Two Cities' by Debra Efroymson - After spending 30 years in Asia (mostly Bangladesh), I have recently...

Local Futures

24.03.2024

Globalising Hope - the Courageous Journey of La Via Campesina - Local Futures

Blog 'Globalising Hope - the Courageous Journey of La Via Campesina' by A Growing Culture - Collective work cannot succeed in homogeneity...

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24.03.2024

50,000 People Say Another World is Possible - Local Futures

50,000 People Say Another World is Possible by Alex Jensen - Local Futures reports from the World Social Forum, Nepal 2024.

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26.01.2024

Government Reforms Face Corporate Backlash in Honduras

Blog 'Government Reforms Face Corporate Backlash in Honduras' by Karen Spring - Seven men, all dressed in suits, gathered...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

Regenerative Agriculture by GRAIN

Blog ' Regenerative Agriculture' by GRAIN - Food and agribusiness giants have coalesced around the term “regenerative agriculture”...

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27.12.2023

The Green Growth Delusion by Christopher Ketcham

Blog 'The Green Growth Delusion' by Christopher Ketcham - In the annals of industrial civilization, the Green New Deal counts...

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27.12.2023

The Green Revolution by Glenn Davis Stone

Blog The Green Revolution: no way to feed a hungry planet by Glenn Davis Stone Feeding a growing world population has been...

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27.12.2023

Transgenic Rice Proposed as a 'Solution' for Africa by GRAIN

Blog Transgenic Rice Proposed as a 'Solution' for Africa by GRAIN - Scientists with an international rice initiative have been raising the...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

Africa's Forgotten Farmers by Million Belay

Blog 'Africa's forgotten farmers' by Million Belay - Recently, renowned environmental and human rights advocate George Monbiot...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism’ by Kristen Steele

Blog 'A Localized Alternative to ‘Disaster Capitalism’ by Kristen Steele - Like many disasters, Covid-19 shocked the world; like some...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Science by Christopher Ketcham

Blog 'When Idiot Savants do Climate Science' by Christopher Ketcham: William Nordhaus, who turned 82 this year, was...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

Water Grabbing: Squeezing Communities Dry by GRAIN

Blog 'Water Grabbing: Squeezing Communities Dry' by GRAIN: In 2023 the United Nations’ authority on water warned that a global water...

Local Futures

27.12.2023

New Worlds to Build - Local Futures

Blog 'New Worlds to Build' by Chris Smaje: George Monbiot recently came out swinging for me in his article ‘The cruel fantasies...

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How then shall we live? by Lars and Robyn Veraart

June 21 - World Localization Day by Michael Shuman and Anja Lyngbaek

Native Colored Cotton Rescue Project in Mexico - Local Futures

Educating for the World We Need by Thais Mantovani

Why Agroecology Needs Social Movements by Million Belay

Trump’s Tariffs = Localist Liberation? by Local Futures

Nothing Surprises Me... Everything Remains To Be Done! by Vincent Liegey

The Global/Local Conundrum: Backing Away from Technocracy by Tom Valovic

Nurturing A Living Future by Darcia Narvaez

Local, Vernacular, and Alive by David Bollier

Land, Culture, Farming, and Movements in 2025 by Edmund Frost

Hope is a muscle: What keeps us going, year after year by Local Futures

Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships by L. M. Sacasas

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with indigenous author Ailton Krenak - Local Futures

Twenty years of bilaterals.org, twenty years of fighting FTAs - Local Futures

Celebrating the Life of Stephan Harding by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Techno Feudalism Takes Root on the Farm in India and China by GRAIN

'If all life mattered' by S. Bajpai and A. Kothari

The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World

We Built the Technosphere. Now We Must Resist It - Local Futures

The Caravan of Hope: Uncovering a Localising Japan by Anja Light

Go Back and Fetch It: Sankofa and the Cult of Progress - Local Futures

Emissions Accounting: Cooking the Books - Local Futures

Overview of Digital Technology by Kate Kheel

Resisting US-India Agri-Imperialism by Alex Jensen

Food Inflation by GRAIN

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now by Richard Heinberg

A Tale of Localization in Two Cities by Debra Efroymson

Globalising Hope - the Courageous Journey of La Via Campesina - Local Futures

50,000 People Say Another World is Possible - Local Futures

Government Reforms Face Corporate Backlash in Honduras

Regenerative Agriculture by GRAIN

The Green Growth Delusion by Christopher Ketcham

The Green Revolution by Glenn Davis Stone

Transgenic Rice Proposed as a 'Solution' for Africa by GRAIN

Africa's Forgotten Farmers by Million Belay

A localized alternative to ‘disaster capitalism’ by Kristen Steele

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Science by Christopher Ketcham

Water Grabbing: Squeezing Communities Dry by GRAIN

New Worlds to Build - Local Futures

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