Posts Under ‘localism’ Category

Is Localism a Retro Fad or a Blueprint for Sustainability?

March 9, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, ecology, environmental activism, environmentalism, localism, select, sustainability | 15 comments

As someone who tracks environmental discourse in real time, I find it valuable to step back on occasion and look at how public attitudes are shaped. For that, I depend on the work of scholars. One book from 2008 that I’ve only just read explores how several major contemporary environmental themes have been expressed culturally,…Continue Reading…

The Problem With Localism

January 6, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in localism | 8 comments

It’s “dangerously naive” and an “indulgent form of self-interest,” writes an engineering professor in this provocative essay. Oh, and also “seriously mistaken”: An insular community which does not trade regionally or internationally is at risk from the most basic threats, such as crop failure due to local extremes of weather. The evidence for this is…Continue Reading…