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We’re back with our second series of Planet Local Voices. 🌏🌱📢 In a time of global upheaval, this series offers grounded insight and big-picture thinking from people working to strengthen local economies, communities and cultures around the world. The first episode sets the tone for the series…

"Sustainability", "diversity", "cultural identity", "regeneration" ...ever get the sense of being gaslit by a psychopath? The global system and its many mouthpieces have grown adept at using all the right language. Meanwhile, it continues to run on and build upon its foundational assumptions…

This is not a meeting about climate. This is where the future of global capitalism is going. Dr. Camila Moreno, civil society’s foremost expert on the COP negotiations and on global climate governance, is covering COP30 on the ground via @localfutures_ “Digitalisation”. “Decarbonisation”…

COP30 IS here! The UN Secretary General has spoken out of turn, suggesting HUMANITY is to blame for failed climate action. But humanity has real ecological solutions. The UN, on the other hand, has corporate sponsors. So who’s really to blame? As COP30 kicks off in Brazil, keep in mind the real…

In another life, Manish Jain was educated at Harvard, became an investment banker with Morgan-Stanley, and worked with the UN. Since then, he has been on a journey of unlearning, deschooling and decolonizing, returning home to India to learn from his illiterate village grandmother. Manish is the…

In the latest episode of the Bristol Conversations we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina. He teaches at the Shashe Agroecology School and is the national coordinator for the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmer’s Forum (ZIMSOFF). In…

THEY CALL IT PROGRESS.

Thanks for everybody who joined us for our 4th webinar in the Feminine Futures series. ✨ We’re now preparing for fifth episode with Darcia Narvaez and you can sign up for free online. In this episode you will hear from Darcia Narvaez, evolutionary scientist and founder of The Evolved Nest.org, on…

Join the fourth episode of our new Feminine Futures webinar series. This series brings together the voices of seven women with a broad set of expertise — spiritual, psychological, ecological, and economic — to reassess progress from a feminine living-world perspective. In this episode you will…

Join the third episode of our new Feminine Futures webinar series. This series brings together the voices of seven women with a broad set of expertise — spiritual, psychological, ecological, and economic — to reassess progress from a feminine living-world perspective. In this episode you will…

How can we make our local communities healthy and resilient, and make sure that the voices and concerns of local people are heard? In this episode of the Planet Local Voices Series, Kate Taylor-Smith, Patricia Patterson Vanegas and Ben Christie, share their experience from Forest Row – a small…

Join the second episode of our new Feminine Futures webinar series. This series brings together the voices of seven women with a broad set of expertise — spiritual, psychological, ecological, and economic — to reassess progress from a feminine living-world perspective. In this episode you will…

We are pleased to announce a new webinar series - Feminine Futures – that brings together the voices of seven women with a broad set of expertise - spiritual, psychological, ecological, and economic—to reassess progress from a feminine living-world perspective. ✨ This webinar series will join the…

Ruby Van der Wekken is a member of RIPESS, a network committed to promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy, as well as Oma Maa, a Finnish food co-operative based on community-supported agriculture (CSA) as well as ecologically and socially sustainable food production methods. Ruby works both at…

Global trade is THE red carpet that has allowed big corporations to dominate our world and our lives. But it really doesn’t have to be this way! We are really excited to be releasing a new, short animation: Trade Gone Mad, available in 11 languages. The animation distils Local Futures’ big-picture…

Global trade is THE red carpet that has allowed big corporations to dominate our world and our lives. But it really doesn’t have to be this way! If we want to make real progress on social, economic and environmental issues, we need to start talking about Trade Gone Mad. We are really excited to be…

Jon Jandai is a farmer, seed saver, natural builder, eco-educator, speaker and co-founder of the Pun Pun Center for Self-Reliance, an educational organic farm and earth-building school in Northern Thailand where skills of self-reliance are demonstrated and shared. His TED talk, ‘Life is easy. Why…

Ben Rawlence is an award-winning writer, activist and co-founder of Black Mountains College, Wales. He has written extensively about the human consequences of environmental catastrophe in Africa, and later turned his attention to similar issues in Europe and the Arctic. Ben’s research led him to…

Camila Moreno is one of civil society’s foremost experts on climate policy, and her critical analysis of carbon metrics, digitalization and corporate power is unparalleled. Coming from social and environmental movements in Latin America and her native Brazil, Camila has attended all the COP…

Resisting categorization, Alnoor works towards the healing of culture, people and the living world, bringing spirituality, politics and place-based work into dialogue with one another. He co-founded The Rules – a global activist collective and thinktank for economic alternatives. He also…

Iain McGilchrist is an Oxford literary scholar, and a doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience. A champion of holistic thinking, Iain’s tour-de-force book The Master and His Emissary, along with his more recent The Matter with Things, have transformed academic and popular understanding not only of…

"The important thing is that relationship of the farmer with the place." All genuine regeneration is local. Farmer Raymond Epp, of Menno farm in Hokkaido, shares his holistic practice of regeneration, which is grounded in a web of eco-social relationships at the local level.

Rupert Read is a highly respected activist and thought-leader, eco-philosopher, campaigner and self-described “recovering academic”, who has influenced public and academic opinion on issues like climate, genetic engineering, technological development and advertising to children. Rupert has…

Charles Eisenstein is an independent writer and speaker on topics traversing the economy, society, spirituality and the environment. His work is renowned for its boldness and poetics. The author of six books – including Sacred Economics, Climate: A New Story and The Coronation – he is an…

A small farmer and Campaigns Coordinator for The Landworkers Alliance, Jyoti both embodies and powerfully communicates the possibility for a more just and sustainable future through local food sovereignty. On her 20-acre farm in Dorset, UK, Jyoti raises animals and grows vegetables and fruit, and…

Watch our new film ‘Closer to Home’ at localfutures.org Celebrating the worldwide #localization movement. #planetlocal

Happy World Localization Day! To celebrate World Localizaton Day, we've launched a film which showcases 30+ community groups and businesses, organizations and networks on five continents working towards healthy and fair local economies, communities and food systems, The Power of Local is eclectic…

In this episode, Eva elucidates some of the profound connections between the economy we live in and our most intimate experiences of being human. Find the full episode on localfutures.org #localfutures #mentalhealth

Planet Local Stories: Bayo Akomolafe on hope.#planetlocal #localization #localfutures