16 Facts About Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, previously known as the International Society for Ecology and Culture and pioneer of the Localization movement.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the author of Local is Our Future, in which she advocates for localized alternatives to the global economy, particularly involving the creation of robust local food systems and democratic structures that can effectively resist authoritarianism.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading proponent of localization as an antidote to the problems arising from globalization, and founded the International Alliance for Localization in 2014.

Helena Norberg-Hodge produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness, which lays out her arguments against economic globalization and for localization.

Helena Norberg-Hodge was educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States.

Helena Norberg-Hodge specialized in linguistics, including studies at the doctoral level at the University of London and at MIT, with Noam Chomsky.

The most influential of these in forming Helena Norberg-Hodge's worldview is the Himalayan region of Ladakh.

Helena Norberg-Hodge thought for a bit, and then he said, 'We don't have any poor houses.

In 1978 Helena Norberg-Hodge founded The Ladakh Project, for which Local Futures is the parent organization, in order to counter the overly rosy impressions of life in the urban consumer culture, and to re-instill respect for the traditional culture.

Helena Norberg-Hodge helped establish several indigenous NGOs in Ladakh including the Women's Alliance of Ladakh, the Ladakh Environment and Health Organisation, and the Ladakh Ecological Development Group.

In 1986, Helena Norberg-Hodge and LEDeG were awarded the Right Livelihood Award in recognition of these efforts.

Together with the Local Futures team, Helena Norberg-Hodge has produced the following films and animations:.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is co-author of Life After Progress, Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture.

Helena Norberg-Hodge has made presentations to parliamentarians in Germany, Sweden, and England; at the White House and the US Congress; to UNESCO, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the IMF; and at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Cornell and numerous other universities.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.

Helena Norberg-Hodge was a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, launched with the support of the government of Tuscany, and was previously on the editorial board of The Ecologist magazine.