John Page
John Page is Programs Director of Local Futures. He was the producer of the award-winning documentary, Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, and co-director of The Economics of Happiness. His series of photographs depicting the spread of the global monoculture has been used by NGOs around the world.
Building a Village: Lessons in Urban Living from South Korea
“This is a very special house. It’s called the House of Happiness through Communication. People live here like a big family.” Our guide was 12 year-old Seon Jae, and we were standing in front of an unremarkable-looking 3-story brick building in Mapo-gu, a district of the high-rise metropolis of Seoul, South Korea. We were there…
Rambo, Barbie and Wordsworth
The scene is a classroom in Leh, Ladakh, twelve thousand feet up in the western Himalayas. A young teacher stands in front of her class of 12 year-olds. “I appreciate the poetry of …”, she starts, inviting her students to complete the sentence. Milarepa? Nagarjuna? Tagore, perhaps? But no. “Wordsworth”, they dutifully respond. This scene…
Globalisation Explained
Globalisation Explained By John Page “Globalisation is really a code name for corporatisation. It’s an attempt by the largest corporations in the world, and the largest banks in the world, to re-engineer the world in such a way that they won’t have to pay decent wages to their employees, and they won’t have to pay…