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1. Localization Action Guide   by Local Futures – seeking to build resilient local economies and flourishing local communities. (checked on 14 Oct. 2021)
2. Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson provides a blueprint for sustainable architecture in the 21st century. For designers of the built environment, it is a first-ever compendium of overlooked, time-tested practices – design technologies from indigenous groups around the world. And for Watson, the book is a means to name, document, and create a toolkit for a design movement. “Lo-TEK,” is built on lesser known technologies, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and indigenous cultural practices and mythologies. (checked on 2 Mar. 2020)
3. Mindful Travel & Tourism Education Programme run by Local Futures, Ladakh. Recognizing that tourism is a powerful agent of change, they make great efforts to reach out to visitors to invite them to participate in solutions at every level: from cultural awareness, to ecologically sensitive behavior, to supporting alternatives both in Ladakh and in their own home communities. (checked on 11 Jul. 2018)
4. 10 Ideas For Change, Co-operative Local Economies: The co-operative economy is gaining strength. Rooted in community and in the democratisation of ownership, co-operative structures allow citizens to reclaim power over their workplaces, their open spaces, their housing, shops and public realm. (checked on 25 Jun. 2015)
5. Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade based on a partnership between producers and traders, businesses and consumers. Fairtrade offers producers a better deal and improved terms of trade. (checked on 16 Dec. 2015)