#localism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #localism, aggregated by home.social.
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Scotland became the first country in the world to pass national Community Wealth Building legislation. The bill passed unanimously on February 10, 2026, 103 votes for, zero against. And the viral video covering it, watched by millions of people across the world, was cited on the floor of Holyrood during the final vote, reframing for the people inside the room what they were actually doing.
The five pillars this operates through
Progressive procurement means public spending strengthens local supply chains and prioritises social value over lowest cost.Fair employment expands living wage jobs and improves work quality through anchor institutions.
Plural ownership grows cooperatives and social enterprises that keep wealth local instead of extracted.
Democratic land use promotes community ownership that generates local wealth and stewards environments.
Local finance redirects investment to recirculate in communities rather than flow to distant shareholders.
#localism #communitywealthbuilding #NoBillionaires #community
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In Southern California the phrase "coffee shop" used to mean "diner", but now it means a place that you can lounge around in with espresso drinks. See e.g. the pictured sign: Jack's started up in 1933. Does anyone have any idea when this changed? I feel like it was sometime in the 90s but don't really know.
I'm also curious how widespread this usage was (or is, if it's still used anywhere). Just Southern California? All of California? Elsewhere?
#LosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #California #CoffeeShop #Diner #Localism #Dialects #Vernacular
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A political scientist found that people who loved their town were more likely to attend city council meetings, contact local officials, volunteer for campaigns, and discuss local issues with friends.
#democracy #localism
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/local-patriotism-loving-your-hometown -
I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:
"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."
Population of Vega? 1,208
Why can't mainland #Scotland trust this sort of power to populations less than 50,000?
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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 -
@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 -
@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 -
@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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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@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...
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
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https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
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@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 -
@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 -
@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 -
@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 -
@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 -
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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
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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
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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.
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Issue #21 of my free newsletter, 'shipping news' out now.
Reading, footy, the fediverse, localism, vinyl and my Kallax revival.
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Local #Entrepreneurship Through a #Multistakeholders’ #Tourism #LivingLab in the Post-Violence/Peripheral Era in the #BasqueCountry
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CW: Introducing my good self to the fedi
#introduction Hi! I work in platform strategy for a game platform. I like #WardleyMaps :)
Yes, I talk #product, #strategy, policy, tech/society and so forth. But looking curiously at denial we're in about the changes we need, individually and collectively, to stave off ecological disaster and the collapse of advanced human society. Not just #climate, but #biodiversity, #topsoil, #water, #transition, #permaculture, #pluriverse, #designjustice, #localism.
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Christmas is coming and you are still struggling to find the right book to give? This will keep him/her quiet for a while:
"A Viable Future",
Think of it as a detailed reader on the alternative to the decidedly unviable growth-obsessed society and economy that is fracturing and decaying before our eyes.
Affordable paperback (or free download).https://steadystatemanchester.net/a-viable-future-contents/
#ViableFuture #ViableEconomy #book #ebook #degrowth #collapse #localism #ecosocialism #EcologicalEconomics
#Christmas -
"A Viable Future",
Think of it as a detailed reader on the alternative to the decidedly unviable growth-obsessed society and economy that is fracturing and decaying before our eyes.
Read it free digitally or buy the very reasonably priced printed book.https://steadystatemanchester.net/a-viable-future-contents/
#ViableFuture #ViableEconomy #book #ebook #degrowth #collapse #localism #ecosocialism #EcologicalEconomics
#Christmas -
A Viable Future"
Think of it as a detailed reader on the alternative to the decidedly unviable growth-obsessed society and economy that is fracturing and decaying before our eyes.
Read it free digitally or buy the very reasonably priced printed book.https://steadystatemanchester.net/a-viable-future-contents/
#ViableFuture #ViableEconomy #book #ebook #degrowth #collapse #localism #ecosocialism #EcologicalEconomics -
"A Viable Future"
Think of it as a detailed reader on the alternative to the decidedly unviable growth-obsessed society and economy that is fracturing and decaying before our eyes.
Read it free digitally or buy the very reasonably priced printed book.https://steadystatemanchester.net/a-viable-future-contents/
#ViableFuture #ViableEconomy #book #ebook #degrowth #collapse #localism #ecosocialism -
We talk plenty about #liberty and #equality, but who will champion #community?
I believe neglecting this political and cultural virtue is central to why we live in such an atomized age.
In short, a thick sense of community has been in decline for many of us during the past half-century plus, and a big part of that has to do with how we’ve come to treat the concept of community so abstractly.
#community #communitarianism #localism #politicalphilosophy #appalachia https://commonappalachian.substack.com/p/liberty-equality-andcommunity-in
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This blog idea has been simmering in my mind for more than a year now.
Subscribe if you're interested in the culture, politics, and history of #SouthernAppalachia, particularly in my neck of the woods.
In the spirit of contributing to the community, Common Appalachian aims to share our stories and highlight the cultural values we want to see rooted and reflected in our region.
#appalachia #localism #bioregionalism #communitarianism https://commonappalachian.substack.com/p/this-is-common-appalachian
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"once you give up on the notion that any singular solution can save a high-energy, urban-capitalist consumerism that can’t and shouldn’t be saved, endless small local vistas open up for supporting human communities, livelihood autonomies and wild ecologies." Chris Smaje
PDF READ HERE https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/sites/default/files/Precision%20and%20Prohibition%20-%20web.pdf
#Food #Farming #RegenerativeCulture #Agrarianism #Localism #RegenerativeFarming #Agroecology
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"I think we’re now experiencing the beginning of the end of the ‘modernism’ that the ecomodernists champion – an end that I welcome (...) We need to start implementing something radically different. Radically different, from the roots up." Chris Smaje
#Food #Farming #Energy #Transition #Resilience #Community #Agroecology #Agroforestry #RegenerativeFarming #RegenerativeCulture #TheSmallFarmFuture #Localism #Bioregionalism #Agriwilding #Agraianism
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Getting closer to the land is a simple way to improve your life. If you don't have the means to grow your own crops you can still make your local environment better by communicating with those who do! Protect wildlife, care for your surroundings, and enjoy those wild places!
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Excellent #conversation of Matt David Segall with David Abram about #crisis, #ClimateChange , #animism, #ecology, #localism , #immanence, #materialism, #embodiment, #place, and politics.
https://soundcloud.com/publicprograms/david-abram-on-the-more-than-human-world
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Excellent #conversation of Matt David Segall with David Abram about #crisis, #ClimateChange , #animism, #ecology, #localism , #immanence, #materialism, #embodiment, #place, and politics.
https://soundcloud.com/publicprograms/david-abram-on-the-more-than-human-world
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Excellent #conversation of Matt David Segall with David Abram about #crisis, #ClimateChange , #animism, #ecology, #localism , #immanence, #materialism, #embodiment, #place, and politics.
https://soundcloud.com/publicprograms/david-abram-on-the-more-than-human-world
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Excellent #conversation of Matt David Segall with David Abram about #crisis, #ClimateChange , #animism, #ecology, #localism , #immanence, #materialism, #embodiment, #place, and politics.
https://soundcloud.com/publicprograms/david-abram-on-the-more-than-human-world
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It's great to see the Scottish Government taking a strong lead on developing a community wealth building approach.
If done right this could really transform local communities across Scotland and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to contribute.
Will be interesting to watch how this progresses.
https://www.gov.scot/news/transforming-local-economies/
#communitywealth #coop #cooperatives #localism #socialenterprise
