Helena Norberg-Hodge is my guest on this Special Episode World Localization Day of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award, and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is the author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization, and the Global Ecovillage Network.
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00:00 - Special Edition: World Localization Day, Events May 15th - June 20th
00:32 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Helena Norberg-Hodge with Marc Buckley
02:10 - World Localization Day
03:28 - Local is our Future book
04:11 - Localfuture.org
04:48 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
05:14 - Taking us away from nature
06:20 - Requires an economic change
07:11 - Long for connection and collaboration
07:59 - The Localisation movement
08:55 - Growing local food movement
10:58 - Unnatural food economy is a disaster
13:27 - More diversity on farms
14:18 - Import and Export of food - what you didn’t know
15:36 - The Swedish potato example
16:50 - Turning the Food system rapidly
18:25 - The Growth agenda is dangerous
20:27 - System Thinking
21:02 - Local infrastructures
21:40 - Current economic model failing. Agrarian economics
24:12 - Awakening through the pandemic
25:05 - Increase of the vital importance of food since 2008 and the pandemic
27:58 - Book recommendation; Human Kind
29:41 - Symbiotic Earth
30:28 - World Localization Day - key participants last year
31:58 - Organising events all over the world during 15.5-20.6
32:50 - Russel Brand and his wife Laura Brand important figure
34:03 - Show the many grassroots efforts - Economics of Happiness
34:48 - The dangers of the system we built
35:30 - Localisation
37:08 - Benefits of getting involved in localization
37:48 - Social healing
39:55 - How we measure GDP
41:05 - The smallholder farms hold 95% of the diversity
41:40 - Earnings on Farmer's market compared to Supermarket
43:05 - Maria Rodale, Organic Manifesto on Inside Ideas Ep. 70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXpBwCJoIg
43:28 - Less than 45 harvests left on traditional farming
46:25 - Joining the Localisation movement
48:12 - What we call Growth is not actually Growth
48:58 - Local Action guide
51:35 - worldlocalizationday.org
