By Steven GorelickOriginally posted on the Economics of Happiness Blog at http://www.localfutures.org/our-obsolescent-economy/A friend of mine from India tells a story about driving an old Volkswagen beetle from California to Virginia during his first year in the...
I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small...
By Isabel Marlens Originally published on the Local Futures blog. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t vote for...
Ex- – tract: land to be isolated, titled, massaged, pulverized for maximal maximality. – pert: momentary flush of hormonal zest in an otherwise untidy emotional jungle. – hume: portly thinker whose popping off in 1776 coincided roughly with the industrial revolution;...
A 103-page document with details of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal’s negotiation has been leaked to the BBC. The document is from the talks between the European Union (EU) and the US, which took place in Brussels in early...
