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@harryomvlee
It may be an outcome it's not the only one, nor is it natural. It adds, as you allude to separateness, which does not exist in the natural world. #Interbeing is normal
#localism #cosmolocalism #UnityInDiversity
https://youtu.be/OG0UJ2SIXrY?si=8XNgZrdE2gX0zy7j

#Solarpunk: Off the grid and into the future- Inside the movement transforming #ClimateAction

by Ebin Gheevarghese, 28/11/2025

"The dominant narrative of our time scrolls endlessly toward catastrophe, each headline a confirmation that we’re locked into systems designed to fail, but #solarpunk emerges as something different entirely: a movement blending art, literature, activism, and tangible real-world projects that dares to ask not 'what’s the worst that could happen?' but rather 'what’s the best we can actually build?'

"At its core, solarpunk envisions a world reorganized around #RenewableEnergy, genuine #cooperation, and #SustainableDesign that doesn’t sacrifice beauty or dignity in the process. The key themes include #AntiConsumerism, #CommunityAction, #localism, and what activists call #PrefigurativePolitics, which is essentially the idea that we should live the change we wish to see starting immediately, not someday when conditions magically align.

"The 'punk' in solarpunk carries real weight. The movement is fundamentally #countercultural, resisting both technological determinism and the business-as-usual [#BAU] thinking that’s driving us toward ecological #collapse. Solarpunk centers #decolonial values, #PostCapitalist ideals, and genuine #SelfSufficiency rather than the performative sustainability of #CorporateGreenwashing."

#SolarPunkSunday #Decolonize #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWord #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation

#localism #buylocal #blackfriday #buynothingday #democracy

A thought for "Black Friday": imagine if we had an economy based on democratic principles
where every dollar you spent was like a vote for the kind of world you wanted to create.
Every dollar spent on gas was a vote that climate change didn't matter as much as
convenience.
Every dollar spent on a locally made product or in a locally owned store was a vote for building
a strong local economy.
Every dollar of debt on your credit card was a vote for Wall Street profiteering.
Every dollar spent on locally, sustainably grown food was a vote against the devastation caused
by industrial farming.
Oh wait. That's already how it works.
Spend those votes carefully!

@dnkboston
This is a great example of #localism in action. A growing movement within ordinary communities.
If you know of any in your community please share.
https://www.michiganpublic.org/economy/2024-02-16/malik-yakini-and-detroits-new-black-owned-food-co-op-aim-to-build-food-sovereignty

Having been part of a community build-out of world class broadband a decade ago I'm intrigued by Energy Local that seems to be doing something similar for small/local scale renewable energy generation - I would be interested if anyone out there in the fediverse has had any experience setting up a Energy Local group & whether they succeeded in getting a localised renewable energy source.

†hanks in advance...

#climate #RenewableEnergy #localism

https://energylocal.org.uk

Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/

@newyorktimes @politics-newyorktimes
A government "shutdown" an example of the failure of representative democracy. We are witnessing the unravelling, globally, of domination systems. The majority of us are already developing what could come next. The challenge is identifying how we can work together we can then exit our silos, organisational & individual, and work together in developing a new ecological (planetary)
civilisation. It will happen, we can influence how it comes about through #unityindiversity & planetary citizenship.
If you have a better idea I'd like to hear. We spend too much time glancing at problems we need to examin possible solutions.
#universaleducation
#universalequality #subsidiarity #localism #Worldfederation

Une Champignonnière Urbaine !!!
Visite d'une initiative qui me redonne espoir. Des espaces cédés par la mairie, du local, bio (même si j'ai tiqué quand ils ont eu l'honneté d'avouer qu'il sont passé au bio pour l'argent), low tech, en urbain.
Voilà ce genre de hack qui pourrait insuffler d'autres initiatives resilientes, decentralisées et harmonieuse, ici ou ailleurs.

P.S: Si un jour, je quitte mon labo, je monte une initiative de ce genre à Blois, obligé.😆

youtu.be/G2zfgGEHQng
champipote.com

#lowtech #localism #champignon #fungus #rennes #mycology #mycologie #mycologieradicale #ecologie #ecologiesociale

Cc: @denissalem @GeoffreyDorne @from_Otterspace @damvfl @AntoineD @yannlaffont @fmartin1954 @mascottus

"Our economies, which were remarkably stable after WWII, continually careen between uncontrolled inflation & unemployment. The list of seemingly insoluble national & global problems is growing.

But we also believe there is a clear path forward that has received little attention. That solution is localism: a commitment to place, supported through the decentralization of power, action, and our economies."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-03/a-localism-manifesto/

#Local #Community #Localism #Economy #Trade #Sustainability

A Localism Manifesto
Michael Shuman, originally published by The Main Street Journal
September 3, 2025

With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.

Ed. note: This piece was originally published on Resilience.org on July 17, 2025. It is being refeatured now as part of the Bioregioning series.

Teaser image credit: Author supplied diagram of a local network of nodes in three clusters connected to each other when close but connected to other clusters only once. (The idea being local trade is prioritized over sending products away to other places.)

To understand my own views on decentralization, read this paper
https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/MichaelShuman.pdf
that I wrote for The Next System Project nine years ago. It’s called “A Million Utopias,” and I argue for giving every community—left, right, and center—more freedom to craft their own policies without central government interference. Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote about the importance of 50 state laboratories for democracy through federalism. I would prefer we think about the 36,000 laboratories in our cities, towns, and villages.

Un article qui reprend les éléments de la reprise du St Lubin à #Blois
bloiscapitale.com/le-saint-lubin-nouvelle-vie-sous-la-direction-de-giovanni-et-jennifer

#localism #commerce #economie #france #loiretcher

#wendellberry #localism #metacrisis #mentalhealth #ArtOfLiving

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.” — Wendell Berry

(2/2)

Among existing tech that could be used for a hyperlocal social service, maybe something like Hometown?

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

See also the keynote @darius prepared for the online-only #APConf in 2020;

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/lets-play-and-win-our-own-game/953

Or maybe Bonfire Community, or a @bonfire flavour specifically for the purpose?

https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/community/

#localism #NewUrbanism #5MinuteCities #Hometown #Bonfire #Neighbourly

"Localism is not utopian. It describes the reality of power for most of human history." #localism

https://geo.coop/articles/localism-manifesto

Prout believes in building strong local economies and communities. We agree with much of what Michael Shuman shares in this 'localism manifesto.'
Find out more at: https://mainstreetjournal.substack.com/.../a-localism...
#Prout #LocalEconomies #Communities #Localism #MichaelShuman

#brennaquinlan #localism #eatlocal #metacrisis

The Buyerachy of Eats (a diagram made up of an inverted triangle with the wide top listed as "More" and the point at the bottom as "Less". From the top "Grow your own, Food swaps, CSA, Farm Gate, Food Co-op, From the Farmer/Fisher/Hunter" followed by "Organic/Regen local business (baker, veg box, butcher, dairy, bulk store, fishmonger)" followed by "Local Small Business (not organic/regen) ie grocer, butcher, baker" followed by "Community/Independent Supermarkets" followed by "Big Supermarket" at the tip of the "LESS" category.

"Localism means that if we discover a problem in our backyard, we address it immediately... We don’t wait for permission, assistance, or money from higher levels of govt, and we don’t waste time...Localists are fundamentally solutions-oriented...Localism shifts our political purposes. Instead of striving to grab central power & impose one solution on all communities, we strive to create frameworks...that we all can live with."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-07-17/a-localism-manifesto/

#Sustainability #Community #Localism

A Localism Manifesto
Michael Shuman, originally published by The Main Street Journal
July 17, 2025

With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.

To understand my own views on decentralization, read this paper I wrote for The Next System Project nine years ago. https://thenextsystem.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/MichaelShuman.pdf

It’s called “A Million Utopias,” and I argue for giving every community—left, right, and center—more freedom to craft their own policies without central government interference...

I’ve tried to distill the ideas from that paper into the “Localism Manifesto” below. I hope you enjoy it—and welcome your feedback. It’s a work in progress.

– Michael Shuman, Publisher

Around the world are exciting examples of localism’s success: communities increasingly able to feed themselves through greenhouses, vertical growing, and food sovereignty programs; urban organizations solving homelessness through tiny houses and community land trusts; cooperatives, nonprofits, and B Corps removing the walls between managers and workers; neighborhoods using cutting edge technologies to be self-reliant in energy and water. Localism is about accelerating the start-up, maturity, and spreading of these kinds of projects worldwide.

Reading the news on a daily basis, I am afraid I have to conclude that human civilization is a failure. Most of our societies are run by literally the very worst people. I mean, absolutely repulsive in every way.

Human culture is fantastic at more local levels, but scaled up, it's a disaster.

It is time to start over. I'm not the first to suggest localism and syndicalism. But I don't know how you come to any other conclusion these days.

#Sociology #Politics #Syndicalism #Localism

The latest issue of my free newsletter, Shipping News, is now available.

Things of interest from the digital and analog worlds, with a focus on cool tools, books, tek and localism, landscape and history.

#reading #olives #garden #flashlight #Facebook #localism #surfing #cooltools #history

https://open.substack.com/pub/warrickwynne/p/shipping-news-94c?r=39zx7a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Petition to rename Billy Bragg as 'The Poet of Parsloes' perhaps?
#localism #DefinitelyToTheEastOfTheMayesBrook
#ActuallyItsDagenhamInnit
#Dagenham

This is obviously not 100% accurate as, for example, the farmers need to use transportation to bring their wares to Market, but the general idea of shortening one's footprint is nonetheless illustrated.
#localism #farmersmarket #carbonfootprint #climateaction #metacrisis

#Localism

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