🌍 Happy World Localization Day! 🎉
Today we celebrate the power of local solutions, cultures, and communities in creating a more sustainable and resilient world. Let’s think global and act local. 💚
#WorldLocalizationDay #ThinkLocal #LocalFutures #SustainableLiving
"The 2nd East African Agroecology Conference was a three-day event, from March 25-28, and according to the organizers’ report, over 700 people participated. Alongside a range of side events, there were exhibitions showcasing everything from organic products to innovative techniques and methodologies for improving soil health and replacing agrochemicals."
#MillionBelay, 2025
https://www.localfutures.org/why-agroecology-needs-social-movements/
"The idea that #progress is a technological advance that we have no control over, that's the biggest blindness in the west, I would say."
"Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of #LocalFutures, shares [with @Rushkoff] the #powerOFlocal connections and building resilience - even against the globally-scaled abstract monsters threatening human sustainability and sanctity today."
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" The biosphere pays a brutal price for technological progress by being cannibalized, fragmented, mined, deforested and polluted. And so do we "
originally published by @thetyee
#localfutures #article #press #technosphere #ecology #earth
https://www.localfutures.org/we-built-the-technosphere-now-we-must-resist-it
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“#GDP is a measure of how well the wealthy are doing. It doesn’t measure prosperity in a country. Only how well corporations and a few wealthy families are doing.”
”Radical change has to happen [because] we have created a system that is killing us.”
- Quotes from John Perkins (the ‘economic hitman’) on the excellent #LocalFutures podcast. 🎧👇
