Books and reports
Local Futures’ reports and books aim to catalyze grassroots action worldwide. Many of these resources are available in a number of non-English languages.
Life After Progress
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, Alex Jensen, and others
These key essays are becoming more relevant every day as our crises deepen, and the need for systemic change becomes more apparent.
Local is Our Future
By Helena Norberg-Hodge
This book connects the dots between our social, economic, ecological and spiritual crises, and shows how localizing can help solve them all.
Ancient Futures – 2016 edition
By Helena Norberg-Hodge
A moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, a scathing critique of the global economy and a call for economic localization.
Bringing the Food Economy Home
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, Steven Gorelick
This book illustrates the bleak realities of ‘global food’ and outlines how we can shift direction.
From the Ground Up
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Peter Goering, John Page
This book is a valuable reference for those concerned with the future of agriculture.
Localization: Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness
By Helena Norberg-Hodge
Edited by Steven Gorelick & Kristen Steele
This booklet summarizes the negative impacts of globalization, and outlines how we can move the world towards the local.
Climate Change or System Change?
Local Futures Action Paper
This paper explores how the climate problem can only be tackled effectively if governments stop subsidizing globalization, and persue a localization agenda instead.
