Local Futures Podcast

Local Futures Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 18 - COP, carbon and high-tech: who is setting the agenda?
October 26, 2021

Brazilian researcher and activist Dr. Camila Moreno has attended almost all the major climate conferences in the last decade. In this conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, she offers a rare glimpse

Episode 17 - Beyond Conspiracy: Framing Meaningful Activism
March 03, 2021

You would struggle to find three individuals more equipped to navigate the big picture of global economic mega-structures and civilizational transformation than Tyson, Alnoor and Helena. Between them,

Episode 16 - Unpacking Global Empire from an Indigenous Perspective
November 20, 2020

Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, joins Local Futures’ director Helena Norberg-Hodge to explore “right story” - cognitive frameworks that can help us n

Episode 15 - More than Just the Vegetables
May 14, 2020

In this episode, we cover the inspiring story of the Copenhagen Food Coop, a member-owned alternative to mainstream grocery stores which allows people to not only have regular access to fresh local food, but also to make decisions about what foods the c..

Episode 14 - Food Sovereignty in the Global Economy
September 06, 2019

In this episode we speak with Judith Hitchman, the president of Urgenci, an international network of community-supported agriculture groups (CSAs). The conversation touches on decommodifying food, ISDS clauses, local food policy councils, and many more ..

Episode 13 - Transition, Tradition, and Trade
December 21, 2018

Juan del Río is a co-founder of the Spanish Transition Network, and author of the first book about the Transition movement to be published in Spanish. In this interview from the New Economy and Social Innovation (NESI) forum, he gives us his thoughts on .

Episode 12 - Not-for-Profit Businesses
December 11, 2018

From social enterprises to credit unions, a new wave of not-for-profit businesses is pushing back against the assumption that consumerism and competition must drive the economy. In this episode, we speak with Jen Hinton of the Post Growth Institute, co-a.

Episode 11 - Love, Values, and Wellbeing Economies
August 28, 2018

In this episode, we chat with Diego Isabel La Moneda of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All), a growing group of people and organizations around the world focused on co-creating a new economic system. The goal of WE-All is to bring businesses, NGOs, p.

Episode 10 - Growing a Farmers Market from the Ground Up
July 25, 2018

Francisco Grau is a co-founder of Feria Verde, one of the largest and oldest organic farmers markets in Costa Rica. In this episode, Local Futures' Associate Programs Director Anja Lyngbaek, sits down with Francisco to talk about how the market got start.

Episode 9 - Beautiful Places: A Conversation with Wendell Berry
May 18, 2018

Listen to a conversation between two giants of the local economy movement in this extended episode. Helena Norberg-Hodge founded Local Futures, produced the film The Economics of Happiness, and wrote the book Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Wendel.