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Helena Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of Local Futures, previously known as the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).
Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement and the founder of Local Futures. Initiating localisation movements on every continent, Helena is committed to the revitalisation of cultural and biological diversity and the strengthening of local communities and economies.
Author, film maker, linguist, and pioneer of the new economy movement. Helena’s story is a remarkable one. Born into an international family, and educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, she specialized in linguistics, including studies with Noam Chomsky at MIT.
Linguist, author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day.
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director. Helena founded Local Futures in 1978. Helena is the author of ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’ and ‘Local is Our Future’, and producer of ‘The Economics of Happiness’.
Oct 9, 2020 · Helena Norberg-Hodge has been arguing for localism since the 1970s, but the pandemic is making the Australian activist-scholar’s ideas more relevant than ever.
Writing & Films. Helena is the author of several books, including the international best-seller ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, a moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet,”.
