World Localization Day: Local Future

Be part of this progressive, inspirational and life-affirming movement for change!

For decades, the localization movement has been emerging at the
grassroots on every continent, under the radar of the mainstream media
and with virtually no support from government. People have been
reweaving the fabric of place-based economies that are human-scale and
human-paced: economies that can serve as cornerstones for community
and personal wellbeing. By shortening the link between production and
consumption, they have reconnected both to each other and to the Earth.
This is the economics of happiness.

Localization is about

supporting local shops, local farms and local businesses. It’s about keeping money within the community. It’s about investing in the place where you live– financially, emotionally,practically. It’s about building on the resources of the area (both human
and natural) and living with ecological limits. It’s about saying no to giant unaccountable corporations. And it’s about pressing for political change: to move taxes, subsidies and regulations away from supporting a few global monopolies towards a multitude of place-based businesses and industries.

After COVID-19, we can return to stressful disconnected lives and climate catastrophe, or we can slow down, scale down and rebuild our connections to each other and to the Earth.