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AMIBA celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Helena Norberg-Hodge. She’s the founder and director of Local Futures, a nonprofit dedicated to renewing ecological and social well-being by strengthening communities and local economies.
https://amiba.net/local-legend-helena-norberg-hodge-the-economics-of-happiness/
The second episode in our Planet Local Voices II series is here and it's with environmental economist, Aseem Shrivastava. 🌎⭐️🌱
In this interview for the Planet Local Voices II, Aseem delves into the philosophical roots of our present crises in the rise of modernity which effected an ‘earth alienation’ that ultimately gave rise to colonialism and today’s catastrophic obsession with economic growth and progress.
Watch the video in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20JPzAGCRt8&list=PLOKS2pvabkioU2H0ghGRNLzPlqigGYZW0
The second episode in our Planet Local Voices II series is here and it's with environmental economist, Aseem Shrivastava. 🌎⭐️🌱
In this interview, Aseem delves into the philosophical roots of our present crises in the rise of modernity which effected an ‘earth alienation’ that ultimately gave rise to colonialism and today’s catastrophic obsession with economic growth and progress.
Listen to this thought-provoking conversation between Helena Norberg-Hodge, renowned expert on local economies, and Dr. Demeter, a passionate advocate for connecting back to Life through life supporting systems like local food. Together, they explore how the global economy, which has long been driven by taxes, subsidies, and regulations that favour corporate giants, must shift toward an economy that truly supports local places, communities, people, and the planet.
“I really think we can have a very powerful movement very quickly once we go beyond the local thinking. We mustn’t think too locally. We’ve got to think globally to understand why everyone benefits from localisation“
Read 'An Evening with Helena Norberg Hodge'.
https://shaks.blog/2026/02/13/an-evening-with-helena-norberg-hodge/
"I totally agree that a new romanticism is a very necessary sea change at this strange time in human history but am perhaps a bit less optimistic that it will happen — at least over the next few years. The forces of technocracy seem too powerful at the moment to be countered because so many of the necessities of everyday life depend on our attachment to this digital realm."
https://www.localfutures.org/is-a-mass-revolt-against-technocracy-starting-to-happen/
We're back with our second series of Planet Local Voices. 🌱⭐️🌎
Listen to Living Alternatives, Active Hope with Laura Kaestele now:
Our film Economics of Happiness was included in RELEVANT Magazine's 6 Documentaries that will challenge the way you see the world list 🌎
The Economics of Happiness tracks the tension between globalization and localization — and makes a quiet case that communities are finding more sustainable ways to live, not by waiting on governments or corporations, but by building local economies from the ground up.
We're back with our second series of Planet Local Voices. 🌱⭐️🌎
Listen to Living Alternatives, Active Hope with Laura Kaestele now:
No one locality or bioregion can do it on its own, so we need to find ways to work horizontally, networking across the landscape, finding ways to mutually aid each other. The greater the spread of communities building these roots of resilience and adaptation, the deeper the impact. Potentially, successful community models can set the agenda for broader political change, while the strong communities they make can provide the power to do so.
https://www.localfutures.org/we-are-in-a-crisis-how-to-build-communities-that-can-respond/
