#69 Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localization for Reconnection and Happiness
Episode description
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a linguist, author, filmmaker, the founder of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social, and ecological well-being for more than thirty years.
In addition to authoring her latest book Local is Our Future, Helena produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, described as “an inspirational classic”.
She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- That localization offers people a better connection with nature and each other; smaller, slower, more satisfying, and human scale
- The call to resist the dominant trend of “top-down pressure towards monoculture, a competitive, ever faster, ever-larger scale global economy”
- The growth of local food movements, including farmers' markets and small scale agriculture
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