Localisation and The Global Economy: Helena Norberg-Hodge with Morag Gamble Part 1 of 4

Welcome to the first of this special 4 part series on Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. I am talking with a pioneer of the new economy movement - internationally claimed localisation activist Helena Norberg-Hodge.  She initiated a global celebration of World Localization Day which is being celebrated on 21 June in 2022, but we are celebrating all month with weekly episodes with Helena.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 for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”  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. A new episode will be released each Wednesday the global economythe food systemcommunity and ecologybig picture activismSo grab your notebook, listen in with friends, follow up by watching Helena's films and delving into her  localisation action guide. Local Futures is also releasing a brand new film this month called Bringing the Economy Home: The Rise of the Worldwide Localization Movement. We will be screening this on June 20 at the Permaculture Film Club. Helena will be joining live in conversation at this event. 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 GamblePermaculture Education InstituteWe are collaborating with Local Futures and World Localization Day to bring this series to you.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show_____MORAG GAMBLEFounder, Permaculture Education InstituteMorag's CoursesPodcast BlogPodcast on YouTubePodcast InstagramLinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/moraggamble/I am a possibilitarian and I believe in HumanKINDness.In this podcast my guests and I explore How are we to live? Really live, as nature ourselves, tending the conditions where life can thrive. We ask How do we become the kind of humans this moment is asking us to be?This podcast is one of my acts of myceliation. Each conversation is a thread in a vast network of people speaking up for life with love and care. This podcast beams out from my hand-built solar-powered studio in the midst of a permaculture food forest in a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi country.If this episode lights something in you, pass it to one person who needs it. That is how myceliation works.