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Localisation and The Global Economy: Helena Norberg-Hodge with Morag Gamble Part 1 of 4
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:01:43
Publish Date: 2021-11-12 22:00:00
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Welcome to the first of this special series on Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. I am talking over a series of four conversations with internationally claimed localisation activist Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Helena is the founder and Director of Local Futures, an international nonprofit organisation dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening communities and local economies worldwide.

Helena's first book Ancient Futures has been translated into 40 languages and sold over 1 million copies. She's been the subject of hundreds of articles and written many books, including her latest book, Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness, which accompanies her award-winning documentary, also called the Economics of Happiness.

Helena's work spans almost five decades and she collaborates with leading ecological thinkers. She's been the recipient of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize and also the Goi Peace Prize.

I first met Helena back in 1992 at Schumacher College, and was absolutely inspired by the work that she was doing and subsequently volunteered with her in Ladakh (Little Tibet). 

This is the first of our series of conversations about localisation:

  1. the global economy
  2. the food system
  3. community
  4. big picture activism


So grab your notebook, listen in with friends, follow up by watching Helena's films and delving into her  localisation action guide.

Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I'm meeting with you today and pay respects to their elders past, present and emerging I'm here on the unceded lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people and on the banks of the Moocaboola [Mary] River.

Thank you so much for being here as part of this series of conversations with Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Morag Gamble
Permaculture Education Institute
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