People are at last beginning to pay attention to localism. It’s worthwhile, amid all this attention, to revisit the work of those who have been touting the benefits of localism for a decade or more.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The first real snag came around Day 120. For four straight months, the Levitch family had stuck to their 365-day pledge to "go local" — forgoing Starbucks venti iced teas for ...

Controversy over such issues as school curricula and local law enforcement policies has roiled municipalities across the United States in the past year. Votes by San Francisco, California, school ...

I read an article the other day citing a 2023 YouGov poll that showed 41 percent of Americans believe that the Earth is only nine-and-a-half thousand years old, and that man and dinosaurs coexisted. I ...

Acting locally, as cliched as it sounds, is a strategy American businesses can deploy to reduce costs and offset losses at a time of record inflation, skilled labor shortages, and flagging sales. If ...

In the early part of this decade, the “SoLoMo” -- social-local-mobile -- marketing narrative became very popular as we rapidly ascended to a mobile-first society with advertising hyper-focused on ...

View post: What Happens When You Take Skiing Too Seriously? In 2002, POWDER stared down an age-old debate topic: localism and gatekeeping, particularly in backcountry ski areas. Two writers in the ...

Matt Warshaw grew up in Manhattan Beach in the ‘60s, just as surfing was cementing its central place in Southern California’s culture, and spent his youth in the water. He and his high school buddies ...

Celebrity farmer Joel Salatin, known to many from Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, was one of the most influential figures in the local food movement. So it was a blow to ...

Localism - the mashing together of local focus and global awareness - has echoes of that old activist mantra "Think global, act local," but with a 21st-century twist. For a long time, the thing to do ...