Living Local: A Table of Contents

Globablization is destroying our planet, our health, our humanity, and our connection to all three.

Western society, as we know it, cannot last. It is designed to be consumed and thrown to the refuse. Since this is inevitable, we should choose another path - a way that will last, a way that will not burn out. This would be a resetting of society so that fewer resources are used, so that those resources would be readily reused and current resources would be restored. So that our earth would be nurtured rather than destroyed.

from: EcoSalon

And how would we do this? By living locally and organically. By being in true community.

By living locally and communally, we can fix much of what is wrong with most of our problems: poverty and unemployment, wealth inequity, energy resources, food shortages and disparity of healthy food, water shortages and privatization, toxicity and waste, violence, health and medical attention, homelessness, and so on.

For the next month and beyond, I'd like to open a discussion of what that could look like. An outlining of a vision that I've heard glimpses and whispers of for the last several years, that others have experimented with, that still others are deeply theorizing about. But I would just like to open a dialogue with those who are tired of the system playing as the system and maybe ignite some hearts and minds.

After all, I believe that localization will be the most important movement of the next fifty years.

Food:
 - The Necessity of Eating Local 
 - Eating Local: Present Solutions on the Path

Economics
 - Are Capitalism and Democracy Compatible?
 - Dams, Bio-fuel and Murder: Progress for Whom?
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Energy:
 - Local Energy
 - Dams, Bio-fuel and Murder: Progress for Whom?

Healthcare
 - The Odious Freeloaders Ode to the American Public Healthcare System

Housing
 - JasDye for State Senator (Rent Is Too Damned High)