#localism — Public Fediverse posts

A world government built on cosmolocalism & subsidiarity. Nations, states, lands, areas, can be autonomous oceans and environments would be stewarded. With collective security combined with control of arms both sales & production, humans could live in peace. Conflict will never be allowed to "get out of hand".
#localism #unitednations #worldfederalism https://thealternative.org.uk

A world government built on cosmolocalism & subsidiarity. Nations, states, lands, areas, can be autonomous oceans and environments would be stewarded. With collective security combined with control of arms both sales & production, humans could live in peace. Conflict will never be allowed to "get out of hand".
#localism #unitednations #worldfederalism https://thealternative.org.uk/

A world government built on cosmolocalism & subsidiarity. Nations, states, lands, areas, can be autonomous oceans and environments would be stewarded. With collective security combined with control of arms both sales & production, humans could live in peace. Conflict will never be allowed to "get out of hand".
#localism #unitednations #worldfederalism

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.

https://connectioning.substack.com/p/scotland-writes-community-wealth?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

#localism #communitywealthbuilding #NoBillionaires #community

"Capitalism...is the economic manifestation of the Windigo mentality. Like a malignant process...it must keep expanding or collapse. It cannot recognize enough. Every gain becomes a platform for further gain...Every frontier, whether a rainforest, a public institution, or even the human nervous system, becomes a new zone for enclosure & monetization."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-26/our-civilizations-disease-has-a-name-windigo/

#Capitalism #Economy #PolyCrisis #Climate #Sustainability #DeGrowth #Localism #WesternCivilization #Exploitation

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

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?

#ScotPol
#Localism
#Devolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Municipality#Government

@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."

Read more:
https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/solarpunk-off-the-grid-and-into-the-future-inside-the-movement-transforming-climate-action/

#SolarPunkSunday #Decolonize #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWord #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation

#localism #buylocal #blackfriday #buynothingday #democracy

@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...

#climate #RenewableEnergy #localism

https://energylocal.org.uk

Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/

@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

"Our economies, which were remarkably stable after WWII, continually careen between uncontrolled inflation & unemployment. The list of seemingly insoluble national & global problems is growing.

But we also believe there is a clear path forward that has received little attention. That solution is localism: a commitment to place, supported through the decentralization of power, action, and our economies."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-03/a-localism-manifesto/

#Local #Community #Localism #Economy #Trade #Sustainability

#wendellberry #localism #metacrisis #mentalhealth #ArtOfLiving

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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

#brennaquinlan #localism #eatlocal #metacrisis

"Localism means that if we discover a problem in our backyard, we address it immediately... We don’t wait for permission, assistance, or money from higher levels of govt, and we don’t waste time...Localists are fundamentally solutions-oriented...Localism shifts our political purposes. Instead of striving to grab central power & impose one solution on all communities, we strive to create frameworks...that we all can live with."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-07-17/a-localism-manifesto/

#Sustainability #Community #Localism