Helena Nordberg-Hodge has been a voice of action, reason and sustainable sanity since the 1970's. It was a joy to speak with her and discover the multiple avenues and initiatives she has created and supports, that help nourish and elevate the human collective. She truly is an inspiring soul.
Linguist, author and film maker, 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 convenor 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.
Her latest book is "Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness". Other publications include "Bringing the Food Economy Home" and "From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture".
Educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London and with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning almost half a century, has received the support of a wide range of international figures, including Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.
Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’, essential viewing for anyone interested in sustainability and economic and financial independence, including environmental science, regenerative farming and living off-the-grid. From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. She was the first outsider in modern times to become fluent in the language.
She has helped to initiate localization movements on every continent, particularly in South Korea and Japan, and co-founded both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.
Helena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (aka 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.”
I think you'd be hard pressed to find another human who has dedicated so much time, effort, money and resources, into educating others about the dangers of globalization, how to reduce their personal footprint, and demonstrating how to live the catchphrase, "be the difference you want to see in the world", through making daily, conscious choices and igniting local communities against the heavy-hands of Big Brother and the global Tyrannosauruses.
Connect with Helena: https://www.localfutures.org/about/who-we-are/helena-norberg-hodge/
INjoy,
Denby
