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Have you listened to the latest episode of The Bristol Conversations?
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
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In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
The Bristol Conversations – Lyla June Johnston - Local Futures
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture. They focus a lot on European iden...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Have you listened to the latest episode of The Bristol Conversations?
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
Listen to Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Kincentric Social Justice podcast. Everything We Need Comes From The Earth with Helena Norberg-Hodge.
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Everything We Need Comes From The Earth - Helena Norberg-Hodge
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Listen to Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Kincentric Social Justice podcast. Everything We Need Comes From The Earth with Helena Norberg-Hodge.
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‘Humanity has missed the mark. Humanity has failed.’
As COP30 ended on Friday, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in.
We should be rolling our eyes at such proclamations.
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As COP30 ended on Friday, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in.
We should be rolling our eyes at such proclamations.
www.localfutures.org/humanity-is-...
Humanity Is Not the Problem! by Helena Norberg-Hodge with Henry Coleman
Blog 'Humanity Is Not the Problem!' - As COP30 gets underway, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
‘Humanity has missed the mark. Humanity has failed.’
As COP30 ended on Friday, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in.
We should be rolling our eyes at such proclamations.
www.localfutures.org/humanity-is-...
As COP30 ended on Friday, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in.
We should be rolling our eyes at such proclamations.
www.localfutures.org/humanity-is-...
Sign up to the Local Futures Newsletter and stay informed about upcoming events and inspiring localization initiatives, and get a ‘big picture’ perspective on current events. 🌎⭐️🌱
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Sign up to our newsletter - Local Futures
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November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Sign up to the Local Futures Newsletter and stay informed about upcoming events and inspiring localization initiatives, and get a ‘big picture’ perspective on current events. 🌎⭐️🌱
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The latest episode of the Bristol Conversations podcast is available to listen to now! 🌎⭐️🌱
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
The Bristol Conversations – Lyla June Johnston - Local Futures
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture. They focus a lot on European iden...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The latest episode of the Bristol Conversations podcast is available to listen to now! 🌎⭐️🌱
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
"And it’s also why we need global collaboration in order to bring about the changes to the system that would allow us to respect more localized knowledge, more decentralized structures."
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The 1 Localization, Happiness & Planetary Health: A Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodg
In this conversation, Dr. Ron Ehrlich discusses the rapid advancement of AI technologies and the underlying motives driving this trend, particularly the focus on resource mining and profit generation ...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"And it’s also why we need global collaboration in order to bring about the changes to the system that would allow us to respect more localized knowledge, more decentralized structures."
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"The challenges here in Kurdistan—chemical dependency, land dispossession, water theft—are not unique. They are symptoms of a global food system built on inequality and exploitation. But the responses emerging here."
Read our latest blog post:
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Read our latest blog post:
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The Food You Eat Is Poisoned by Halwest Karim
Blog 'The Food You Eat Is Poisoned' by Halwest Karim - Farming in the mountains and plains of Kurdistan has always been more than a way to feed families; it is a way of life...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"The challenges here in Kurdistan—chemical dependency, land dispossession, water theft—are not unique. They are symptoms of a global food system built on inequality and exploitation. But the responses emerging here."
Read our latest blog post:
www.localfutures.org/the-food-you...
Read our latest blog post:
www.localfutures.org/the-food-you...
In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. 🌎 Watch the episode here:
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The Bristol Conversations – Manish Jain - Local Futures
In this conversation, Manish and Helena Norberg-Hodge bounce of each other in a radical questioning of concepts like progress, freedom, wealth, empowerment and knowledge. Manish shares his personal st...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. 🌎 Watch the episode here:
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In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. Watch the episode here:
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The Bristol Conversations - with Manish Jain
YouTube video by Local Futures (Economics of Happiness)
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October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. Watch the episode here:
www.youtube.com/watch?si=gl6...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=gl6...
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations, Manish Jain and Helena Norberg-Hodge bounce of each other in a radical questioning of concepts like progress, freedom, wealth, empowerment and knowledge.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
The Bristol Conversations – Manish Jain - Local Futures
In this conversation, Manish and Helena Norberg-Hodge bounce of each other in a radical questioning of concepts like progress, freedom, wealth, empowerment and knowledge. Manish shares his personal st...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations, Manish Jain and Helena Norberg-Hodge bounce of each other in a radical questioning of concepts like progress, freedom, wealth, empowerment and knowledge.
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
“Better production ultimately means … protecting soils instead of depleting them, it means using water more wisely, it means bringing back diversity and local solutions.”
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How to Feed the World and Save the Planet – A View from the Ground
'How to Feed the World and Save the Planet – A View from the Ground' by Helena Norberg-Hodge and Henry Coleman. Anyone who tuned into the FAO’s World Food Day programme last week would be forgiven for...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Better production ultimately means … protecting soils instead of depleting them, it means using water more wisely, it means bringing back diversity and local solutions.”
www.localfutures.org/how-to-feed-...
www.localfutures.org/how-to-feed-...
This Thursday, October 23rd, at 10am in Brazil, join us for the webinar "Community Land Ownership Models to Protect Biodiversity and Secure Adequate Housing for All", featuring amazing speakers from Barbuda, Chile and Brazil.
Register here:
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Register here:
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Propriedade comunitária, direito à moradia e sustentabilidade // Community land ownership models to protect biodiversity and secure adequate housing for all // Regímenes de propiedad comunal, der...
Português: O evento tem por objetivo promover um debate entre direito à moradia, terra e sustentabilidade ambiental. Mais precisamente, busca-se explorar o universo de modelos de gestão comunitária da...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This Thursday, October 23rd, at 10am in Brazil, join us for the webinar "Community Land Ownership Models to Protect Biodiversity and Secure Adequate Housing for All", featuring amazing speakers from Barbuda, Chile and Brazil.
Register here:
forms.gle/sGCmHPUXGYYSkHe26
Register here:
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In this episode of Death in the Garden, Helena Norberg-Hodge discusses the problems of globalization, the global monoculture, and the breakdown of our relationships with each other and the living economy.
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Helena Norberg-Hodge: Resisting the Machine World and Turning Toward Life | Full-Length Interview
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October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In this episode of Death in the Garden, Helena Norberg-Hodge discusses the problems of globalization, the global monoculture, and the breakdown of our relationships with each other and the living economy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5d4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5d4...
In this month’s Food X, the Center’s festival coordinator, Linda Rico, writes about the importance of keeping food justice at the forefront of the sustainable food movement.
Read the article here:
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Read the article here:
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Join us for the Food Justice Film Festival
October marks the Center’s sixth year showcasing films about food justice. Our Food Justice Film Festival helps elevate the issues at the heart of the food justice movement and illustrates the connect...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
In this month’s Food X, the Center’s festival coordinator, Linda Rico, writes about the importance of keeping food justice at the forefront of the sustainable food movement.
Read the article here:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
Read the article here:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
Kincentric Social Justice is an initiative exploring the intrinsic link between our capacity to meaningfully engage with social justice matters and our relationship with the more-than human world. Listen to their latest episode with Helena Norberg-Hodge.
Everything We Need Comes From The Earth - Helena Norberg-Hodge
YouTube video by Kincentric Social Justice
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October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Kincentric Social Justice is an initiative exploring the intrinsic link between our capacity to meaningfully engage with social justice matters and our relationship with the more-than human world. Listen to their latest episode with Helena Norberg-Hodge.
At their best, farmers’ markets flip the industrial food model on its head, giving communities more agency over how their food is grown, distributed, and enjoyed.
Read our latest blog post 'Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio'.
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Read our latest blog post 'Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio'.
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Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio
Blog 'Rooted in Place' by Justin Cantafio - The longer I work in the local food world, the less I mince my words.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
At their best, farmers’ markets flip the industrial food model on its head, giving communities more agency over how their food is grown, distributed, and enjoyed.
Read our latest blog post 'Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio'.
www.localfutures.org/rooted-in-pl...
Read our latest blog post 'Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio'.
www.localfutures.org/rooted-in-pl...
In our latest podcast we hear from Camila Moreno, civil society’s foremost expert on the international COP climate negotiations. Since 2008, Camila has been charting the emergence of what she calls a system of ‘global climate governance’.
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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September 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
In our latest podcast we hear from Camila Moreno, civil society’s foremost expert on the international COP climate negotiations. Since 2008, Camila has been charting the emergence of what she calls a system of ‘global climate governance’.
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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Join us for a one-day conference on 25th September, marking Focus on the Global South’s 30th anniversary. Together with allies and partners across the region, we will reflect on three decades of struggles against corporate-driven globalization.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Focus @ 30: Conference. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Focus @ 30: Conference
Celebrating Thirty Years of Resistance and Solidarity
Join us for a one-day conference marking Focus on the Global South’s 30th anniversary. Together with allies and partners a...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Join us for a one-day conference on 25th September, marking Focus on the Global South’s 30th anniversary. Together with allies and partners across the region, we will reflect on three decades of struggles against corporate-driven globalization.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Join leading voices in science, farming, and health at the Guthrie Theatre, UTS Ultimo, Sydney, for a transformative day exploring how the ground beneath our feet shapes the future of our planet and our well-being.
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How soil health affects the climate and human health
Join our amazing speakers for a powerful journey back to nature, with regenerative farming & the hidden forces shaping your food, your health & the climate.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Join leading voices in science, farming, and health at the Guthrie Theatre, UTS Ultimo, Sydney, for a transformative day exploring how the ground beneath our feet shapes the future of our planet and our well-being.
events.humanitix.com/how-soil-hea...
events.humanitix.com/how-soil-hea...
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina. Listen to the episode now! 🌎
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
The Bristol Conversations - Nelson Mudzingwa
Listen to the third episode of The Bristol Conversations with Nelson Mudzingwa highlighting the benefits of local food systems.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina. Listen to the episode now! 🌎
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
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Recommended listening: ‘What if we shifted to a needs-based economy’ in three parts with
Elisa Rathje,
Helena Norberg-Hodge @localfutures.bsky.social and
Della Duncan @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
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Elisa Rathje,
Helena Norberg-Hodge @localfutures.bsky.social and
Della Duncan @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
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What if we shifted to a “needs-based” economy? Part 1 - with Elisa Rathje, Appleturnover
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September 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Recommended listening: ‘What if we shifted to a needs-based economy’ in three parts with
Elisa Rathje,
Helena Norberg-Hodge @localfutures.bsky.social and
Della Duncan @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2jgr...
Elisa Rathje,
Helena Norberg-Hodge @localfutures.bsky.social and
Della Duncan @upstreampodcast.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2jgr...
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina.
Listen to the episode now!
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
Listen to the episode now!
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
The Bristol Conversations - Nelson Mudzingwa
Listen to the third episode of The Bristol Conversations with Nelson Mudzingwa highlighting the benefits of local food systems.
www.localfutures.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina.
Listen to the episode now!
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
Listen to the episode now!
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
🌱 Farmer & food sovereignty advocate Nelson Mudzingwa (ZIMSOFF / La Via Campesina) shares why local seeds, knowledge & food systems bring real resilience in the face of climate change & market volatility.
Listen to the latest episode of our podcast:
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Listen to the latest episode of our podcast:
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The Bristol Conversations – Nelson Mudzingwa - Local Futures
In this conversation with Helena Norberg Hodge, Nelson extols the benefits of local food systems that are closely connected to culture, community and the land. With firsthand experience, he highlights...
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August 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🌱 Farmer & food sovereignty advocate Nelson Mudzingwa (ZIMSOFF / La Via Campesina) shares why local seeds, knowledge & food systems bring real resilience in the face of climate change & market volatility.
Listen to the latest episode of our podcast:
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
Listen to the latest episode of our podcast:
www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...
Join Helena at this Summit on October 29 — a global first exploring how patterns of domination learned at home are reproduced across our systems, from gender to governance, and how choosing partnership instead can transform our future.
Register now at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org
Register now at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org
Peace Begins at Home Summit | Peace Begins at Home Summit 2025
Explore how early family dynamics shape our world—and why lasting peace must begin at home. Join global leaders and changemakers at this virtual summit for breakthrough ideas and solutions.
www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Join Helena at this Summit on October 29 — a global first exploring how patterns of domination learned at home are reproduced across our systems, from gender to governance, and how choosing partnership instead can transform our future.
Register now at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org
Register now at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org
"Carbon offsets are a dangerous distraction from actual emissions reductions. The big buyers of carbon credits these days are Amazon and other big tech companies trying to dodge criticism for the enormous increase in emissions generated by their AI data centres."
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grain.org/e/7303
Bezos’ $10 billion for the climate is a gift to Amazon
The Bezos Earth Fund—the biggest climate philanthropy—has spent only 1/4 of its $10 billion pledge halfway through its 10-year mission. With new CEO Tom Taylor (ex-Amazon AI), expect a bigger push for...
grain.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Carbon offsets are a dangerous distraction from actual emissions reductions. The big buyers of carbon credits these days are Amazon and other big tech companies trying to dodge criticism for the enormous increase in emissions generated by their AI data centres."
grain.org/e/7303
grain.org/e/7303