Localism news

• 'We are in danger' - Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season, BBC News (Oct 26, 2024)
• Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions, theconversation.com (Oct 08, 2024)
• Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
• The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK, Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2024)
• A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie, Daily Alternative (Feb 21, 2024)

• The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows, The Conversation (Jun 21, 2022)
• “We build the road, and the road builds us.” What Sarvodaya, a SriLankan 'no-poverty, no-affluence' movement, can teach the rest of us, The Daily Alternative (Jun 17, 2022)

• How to go even more local after COVID-19, Mar 9, 2021...fabcity-montreal.quebec
• "Only if 20% of us do 2 hours a day will we hit the tipping point that changes local systems". Neal Gorenflo on his Year of Living Locally, Mar 3, 2021...Daily Alternative

• Joe’s not sleepy, but he should wake up to American localism, Nov 8, 2020...^[1] ...US news
• Accessible local alternatives to Amazon Prime, Apr 23, 2020...^[2]
• Valsamoggia: making the local visible, Apr 7, 2020...^[3]
• This Really Is From The Grassroots Up, Sep 15, 2019...^[4]
• The next egg: Investing our retirement savings in our local communities, Apr 6, 2019...^[5]

References

• Lesley Riddoch on the "power of local" - communities taking control in their own way, Nov 10, 2018^[1]
• One way to challenge the preeminence of big banks is to build a small one. The story of Avon Mutual. Oct 30, 2018^[2]
• Citizen-led Economic Transition – a four point framework for guiding action, Oct 27, 2018^[3]
• How do we utilize local knowledge so that others can benefit from it? A guide from the Danish Island of Samsø, Apr 17, 2018^[4]

References

• Forget nimbys. Yimby housing policy can transform the UK – with the political will, Aug 11^[1]
• A Just Future Starts at the Local Level, Jul 10^[2]
• “I’m welling up just talking about it”: the marvel of Totnes LEF6, May 16^[3]
• How ‘Grown in Totnes’ are reimagining the local food economy, May 2^[4]

References

• Why White Dog Café Founder Judy Wicks Believes in the Power of a Local Economy, Dec 15, 2015...^[1]
• The 8 Paradigm Shifts at the Heart of REconomy, May 6, 2015.
• How to transform your local economy in one day, July, 2014...^[2]
• Five ways to bring money and investment into your local area, May 22, 2014...^[3]

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