Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities and organizations to take effective action.

Solving our current crises requires actions that resist the drivers of social and ecological destruction, and those that renew local cultures, communities and economies. Let’s take action at a personal and community level and build a movement powerful enough to turn the tide.

Explore actions by theme:

Consumption

Energy

Finance

Community

Business

Food

Or by actor:

Individuals

Community groups

Governments

Businesses

Institutions

A few examples of Actions:

Join or start a community garden.

Start a "Buy Local" campaign.

Move your money.

Reclaim your community’s electrical grid.

Join or start a tool library.

Organize a citizens' assembly.

Support local farms through your food purchases.

Start a community bank.

Start a community composting project.

Start or join a small business loyalty program.

Participate in local business alliances.

Share business resources and services.

Create a community coworking space.

Create a zero-waste business.

Start a worker-owned cooperative.

Transition to a worker-owned cooperative.

Local action and systemic change

In the pursuit of never-ending growth and profits, the corporate-led global economy is putting all life on earth at risk. When we take action to localize our economies and strengthen our communities, we are helping to bring about a systemic shift in direction – towards cultural and biological diversity, social justice, genuine democracy, and our own health and happiness.
It’s time to bring our economies back home, to return to a human scale, to localize.

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“From farmers markets and consumer-producer co-operatives to local business alliances and community finance schemes, people are reweaving the fabric of local interdependence from the ground up. Out of common sense and heartfelt intuition, they are finding innovative ways to step out of the consumer rat race to live local lives at a human pace and scale.”

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder - Local Futures