About: Helena Norberg-Hodge

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http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org

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Author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy on identity, community and local economies, and is a leading proponent of ‘localization’, or decentralization, as a means of countering those impacts. Since 1975, she has worked with the people of Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. Trained as a linguist, she was the first Westerner in recent times to master the Ladakhi language, and co-produced the first Ladakhi-English dictionary. Her book, Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh has been described as “an inspirational classic”, and sold almost half a million copies. Helena has given public lectures in seven languages and appeared on broadcast, print and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The London Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. Her work has been the subject of more than 300 articles worldwide. She is on the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and is a co-founder of both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Eco-village Network.

Posts by Helena Norberg-Hodge:

• February 10, 2012 The Easiest Way to Tackle Climate Change

• February 3, 2012 A Tale of Two Cities: Beijing and Detroit