Word: local
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This arbitration process includes Mohammed presenting his case to a Local Problem Solving Team which includes University and union officials as well as a few outside experts...
...Indonesia, for example, HIID helped assemble a credit program through local banks that lends to the poorest segment of society without the need for any government subsidies...
...Board did not mandate the teaching of creationism, but rather left the decision of what to teach up to local school boards and individual teachers...
...have become a single, enormous population. The system in which we are living, extracting our energy and other supplies, is global: the totality of Earth's atmosphere, its waters, its soils and crust, and all its living things. This is the sum total of all the world's local ecosystems--ecosystems we have allowed to decay as we have chosen (quite successfully!) to live outside them...
FOOD We'll favor fruits, grains and vegetables grown close to home, either in our backyard gardens [6] or on nearby organic farms [7]. It won't take much energy to get the fresh produce to local markets. Since the farms will employ natural forms of pest control rather than potentially toxic chemicals, there will be much less of a buildup of suspected carcinogens in the food supply...