What Does a Local Future Look Like?
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Jeremy Lent in conversation
Underlying the dominant world system is a 500-year-old process of systematic exploitation: slavery, enclosures, colonialism, imperialism, and—over the past 40 years—economic globalization. Power has shifted increasingly into the hands of transnational banks and corporations. Today this system is responsible for increasing social and ecological breakdown, as well as threatening the sovereignty of nations.
It seems clear that any pathway toward an ecological civilization will require a reclamation of sovereignty back to regional and local levels. This would need to incorporate multiple intersecting domains: economic, political, industrial, agricultural, and cultural. But what might that local future look like? We are so embedded in a globalized world that, for many of us, a more grassroots-based society can be difficult to envision.
In this Deep Transformation Network Live Interactive Conversation, Jeremy Lent will discuss the vision of a local future with Helena Norberg-Hodge—one of the world’s leading thinkers on this topic, founder of the international non-profit Local Futures, and convener of World Localization Day.
We will discuss the underlying destructive elements of the dominant global system and benefits of localization; different flavors of localization strategies such as “cosmolocalism” and “glocalism”; and how each of us can become part of the movement laying the groundwork of deep transformation toward a flourishing future on a regenerated Earth.
Event Details
This online event will be hosted by the Deep Transformation Network.
It is free and open to all.
Following the initial conversation, DTN members will be invited to ask questions and engage directly with Helena and Jeremy.
Date and Time:
San Francisco: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. PDT
Sydney: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. AEST
Duration: 75 minutes
Register for Event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOmgrj8rGdbUjgUNxNAnwBVfBTNqg7b6
About the Speakers
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 convener of World Localization Day. She is the author of several books, including the bestseller ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’ and more recently ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’. Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’ and the recently released ‘Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution.’ 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.”
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning books, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, and The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, trace the historical underpinnings and flaws of the dominant worldview, and offer a foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision of, and pathways toward, an ecological civilization and is founder of the Deep Transformation Network.