local futures

Linguist, author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures; a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement, raising awareness about the power of ‘going local’ as a key strategy for restoring ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing.  Helena’s books include ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”.  Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies.   Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’.  Other publications include ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’.  Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’. 

From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. She was the first outsider in modern times to become fluent in the language.

She has helped to initiate localization movements on every continent, particularly in South Korea and Japan, and co-founded both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

In this episode, Helena debunks many myths around the perpetuation of economical globalisation, including agricultural misconceptions, whilst also offering connecting insights into the shift in the human psyche from local life to mainstreamed globalisation.

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Helena is linguist, author,  film maker and the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures. Which is a leading voice in the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day.

She is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies.

In this episode we talk about the importance of local food for our health, communities and the environment. We discuss the impacts of global trade, capitalism and corporate power on communities and individuals. We talk about the way forward after a bottleneck in global power, industrial farming and trade has reduced our ability to survive when economies collapse. The answer starts with local food.

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WVBR News Directors Andrew Modrowsky and Jack Donnellan interview environmental activist and a pioneer of the “new economy movement", Helena Norberg-Hodge. Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, a non-profit dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening local communities and local economies worldwide.  

She is also the author of the international best-selling book, Ancient Futures, based on her personal experience of over 40 years living and working as a linguist, filmmaker and activist in Ladakh, on the Tibetan Plateau.  

Norberg-Hodge has also been working on a new documentary through Local Futures, called Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution. In addition to that, she has been promoting World Localization Day, which occurs on June 21st, and calls on people to come together to explore the power of localization, and to honor the many initiatives, old and new, that foster ecological economies, thriving communities and healthy local food systems.  

This interview, first released on AFTER HOURS, will be broadcasted live on WVBR 93.5 FM in August 2022. Special thanks to Helena Norberg-Hodge for making this episode possible.

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Culinary curator Monika Kucia from Poland talks about how she takes the ego out of food. Design Leader and author Daniel Christian Wahl discuss bio-regional development. The founder of the NGO Local Futures, Helena Norberg Hodge, discusses the benefits of 'localisation.'

For more info on our guests and a transcript to this episode please see Imaginary Life. Sounds designed with Diego Losa.