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Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see it in how people eat and work and share and buy and move and live their everyday lives, this isn't some precious parochialism, this isn't some retreat into insularity, no.

It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local population.

In order to reduce cost and our own carbon footprint, we started utilizing local biomass as soil amender and fertilizers.

When they get active, they need increased blood flow to supply that activity, and lucky for us, blood flow control to the brain is local, so if a bunch of neurons, say, right there get active and start firing, then blood flow increases just right there.

But it felt weird to me that I knew more about local Kenyan politics than the politics of my own hometown.

By involving local communities, investing in their agriculture and their economies, by monitoring more carefully, by enforcing the law more strictly.

In Humbo, in southwest Ethiopia, a wonderful project to plant trees on degraded land and work with local communities on sustainable forest management has led to big increases in living standards.

My work as a woman photographer was considered a serious insult to local traditions, and created a lasting stigma for me and my family.

We got 22,000 votes, that's 1.2 percent of the votes, and we came in second for the local options.

As citizens, we are ready to decide on our common destinies, because we know that the way we distribute power says a lot about how we actually value everyone, and because we know that enabling and participating in local politics is a sign that we truly care about our relations to one another, and we are ready to do this in cities around the world right now.

However, we all copy what everyone else does, and local cultural norms are something that shape how we change our behavior, and this is where the private sector comes in.

I call it benjoin in the local vernacular, and the botanical name is Terminalia bentzoe, subspecies bentzoe.

Often, these particular features have evolved as a response to the threat presented by the local fauna, in this case, grazing tortoises.

Now, the local people, they used a decoction of the leaves against infectious diseases.

This bush here is known as baume de l'ile plate in the local vernacular.

Now, the local people again use the leaves in traditional medicine against respiratory problems.

So the local news started writing about it, which was great, and then even The Guardian wrote about it: "Notorious slum becomes open-air gallery."

So the project took almost two years to complete, and we made individual designs for every single house on the avenue that we painted, and we made these designs together with the local store owners, the building owners, and a team of about a dozen young men and women.

JK: So we went back, and we employed Angelo, and he's a local artist from Vila Cruzeiro, very talented guy, and he knows almost everybody there, and then we employed Elias, our former landlord who invited us into his house, and he's a master of construction.

Alone, actually, but just with local people, meeting my team, which was absolutely not professional people, on the spot there, going from one place to another and to make cinema as a trek.

Three months later, after traveling all around the country, I had recorded 33 films, only with the help of local people, only with the help of people that I was asking all the time the same question: What is important to record here today?

Now, that's a problem that's similar to another area that we all know about, which is of fuel use and energy, and of course energy use both depletes energy as well as leads to local pollution and climate change.

So the ECM in my skin is different than the ECM in my liver, and the ECM in different parts of the same organ actually vary, so it's very difficult to be able to have a product that will react to the local extracellular matrix, which is exactly what we're trying to do.

So if you have a bleeding wound like the one behind me, you can actually put our material onto this, and just like Lego blocks, it'll reassemble into the local tissue.

So when you put the gel on, it actually reassembles into this local tissue.

We've heard extraordinary activities of civil society groups who are engaging in local and global collective action, and this is leading to digital protest and real revolution.

That's a scientist who works in the rainforest to document how people use local plants.

Sometimes, it's about putting it in the media, mostly local ones, to create awareness.

NSA-style mass surveillance is enabling local police departments to gather vast quantities of sensitive information about each and every one of us in a way that was never previously possible.

And local police departments make decisions about who they think you are based on this information.

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