Originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog at http://www.localfutures.org/globalizations-blowback/.by Alex JensenA recent study of air pollution in the western United States made a startling finding: despite a 50 percent drop over the past 25 years...
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...
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...
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment...
This article originally appeared on Fast Company on 12th March 2015 Poverty isn’t just a fact of nature. We made it happen, and we can fix it. Written By Jason Hickel, Joe Brewer, and Martin Kirk This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the...
