Very important topic, and Helena Norberg-Hodge is an excellent guest for this podcast! In the early 2000s I got involved in my community with "Sustainable Bellingham," which was part of the Post-Carbon Institute's "Relocalization Network." Then with our "Transition Whatcom" group we shifted emphasis a bit toward personal and community resilience. Now with our "Regenerate Whatcom" group we're talking about regeneration of our bioregion using Integrated Landscape Management (ILM).
Localization is key to all of the initiatives above. At the same time we should think about what Michel Bauwens has labeled cosmo-localism (and what Joe Brewer calls Bioregional Earth), which means we keep in mind what is appropriate for both the global and the local scales, and which will help us avoid the isolationist "my tribe first" ideology mentioned in the comment by Marco Masi.
New to the Substack, but long time Great Simplification listener, so thanks Nate and everyone in the community.
I have to say I’m having a bit of trouble when the locolization lady lives in Australia and England, and when she says you can have strawberries in the winter, as long as you’re rich.
Not a comment on the pod, but on this creeping use of AI images, on here, and in the otherwise great Summit report: it shows, and it's incomprehensible and unacceptable for a supposedly progressive voice. Image generators remix other people's images to compete directly against them, without credit, consent and compensation. It's extractive to the core, with severe societal and environmental externalities. See how here: https://johancb.substack.com/p/the-two-big-lies-behind-the-heist
Very important topic, and Helena Norberg-Hodge is an excellent guest for this podcast! In the early 2000s I got involved in my community with "Sustainable Bellingham," which was part of the Post-Carbon Institute's "Relocalization Network." Then with our "Transition Whatcom" group we shifted emphasis a bit toward personal and community resilience. Now with our "Regenerate Whatcom" group we're talking about regeneration of our bioregion using Integrated Landscape Management (ILM).
Localization is key to all of the initiatives above. At the same time we should think about what Michel Bauwens has labeled cosmo-localism (and what Joe Brewer calls Bioregional Earth), which means we keep in mind what is appropriate for both the global and the local scales, and which will help us avoid the isolationist "my tribe first" ideology mentioned in the comment by Marco Masi.
I agree, provided that this ideal doesn't decay into an isolationist and selfish "my tribe first" ideology.
New to the Substack, but long time Great Simplification listener, so thanks Nate and everyone in the community.
I have to say I’m having a bit of trouble when the locolization lady lives in Australia and England, and when she says you can have strawberries in the winter, as long as you’re rich.
Not a comment on the pod, but on this creeping use of AI images, on here, and in the otherwise great Summit report: it shows, and it's incomprehensible and unacceptable for a supposedly progressive voice. Image generators remix other people's images to compete directly against them, without credit, consent and compensation. It's extractive to the core, with severe societal and environmental externalities. See how here: https://johancb.substack.com/p/the-two-big-lies-behind-the-heist