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Tuesday Oct 28, 2014
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014
Tuesday October 28, 3pm EDT: This week’s featured film is The Economics of Happiness.Mitchell’s guest this afternoon to discuss the film is filmmaker, author Helena Norberg-Hodge.Helena is an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide, a pioneer of the localisation movement, and the articulator of the core ideas of Counter-development.
She is producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary, The Economics of Happiness,
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Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).
Based in the US and UK, with subsidiaries in Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Ladakh, Local Futures’ mission is to examine the root causes of our social and environmental crises, while promoting more sustainable and equitable patterns of living in both North and South. Its activities include The Economics of Happiness, The Ladakh Project,[1] and Global to Local Outreach.
Helena was educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States. She specialised in linguistics, including studies at the doctoral level at the University of London and at MIT, with Noam Chomsky. Fluent in seven languages, she has lived in and studied numerous cultures at varying degrees of industrialisation, giving her a unique international perspective.
She is the author of the bestselling Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, based on her first-hand experience of the effects of conventional development in Ladakh.
She is a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the 2012 Goi Peace Award.www.localfutures.org.
Helena will be one of the speakers at Voices for Hope in a Time of Crises Event, November 8, 2014, 10am to 6pm, this coming November 8th.
Join in for a day of thought-provoking and constructive talks on our multiple crises and how we can solve them, including the launch of the International Alliance for Localization (IAL). It will be held at The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, NYC. To register: Click here for more information