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Culture In Decline
Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?
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LOCAL: A Story Of Hope
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Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
Locally Abundant (2012)
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
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Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love
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On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities
Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism
What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget
Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About
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Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)
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