On November 30th, Livelihood Laureate Helena Norberg Hodge and students from Politics/LGST 167, the Politics of International Trade, had an open dialogue on the systemic root causes of our current global crises and economic localization—shifting our economies towards place-based, human-scale activity—as a strategy for change to address our many crises.
ABOUT HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
Linguist, author, and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convener 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. Helena received the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 “for preserving the traditional culture and values of Ladakh against the onslaught of tourism and development.
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