Sept 22, 2024
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE is a linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, Local Futures. Based on decades of experience in indigenous cultures, Helena has been promoting a big picture understanding of the foundations of human, as well as ecological, wellbeing. Teaching the importance of thriving local economies that benefit many and the earth, as opposed to a global one that benefits few and destroys our world, it’s time we gave her our full attention!
Watch her moving, award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, which describes the devastating impact of corporate interventions in Ladakh, an insulated Tibetan community high up in the Himalayan mountains.
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