Upcoming events
Local Futures’ Director Helena Norberg-Hodge and other staff frequently speak at events hosted by like-minded organizations all over the world. We also organize events ourselves, from international conferences, workshops and seminars to World Localization Day. You can find a list of all our upcoming events below. We look forward to seeing you there!
‘System Change through Local Economies’
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Anja Lyngbaek will be speaking at this three day online conference on localization and big picture activism. Other speakers will be Daniel Christian Wahl and Neal Gorenflo and many more!
September 24-26, 2021
Hosted by System Change Alliance
People’s Food Summit
This Summit is calling for a shift in food and agriculture towards local sovereignty and small-scale systems. Local Futures’ short food-related films will be shown, and Helena Norberg-Hodge will speak.
October 16, 2021
Hosted by a coalition of partners, including Local Futures
Lokalekonomidagarna 2021
Local Economy Days 2021 is a two-day online conference with the theme ‘Local restart – how do we build robust communities?’. Helena Norberg-Hodge will be speaking on October 20 (spoken language is Swedish).
October 20-21, 2021
Hosted by Lokalekonomidagarna
World Localization Day 2021 was a success!
The worldwide localization movement has reached a new height during the World Localization Day activities in May and June 2021. The celebration featured Local Food Feasts organized in 27 countries, more than 70 global partner events held worldwide, and a week-long summit featuring inspiring speakers, all on the theme: Think Globally, Act Locally!
Economics of Happiness Conferences
Our biggest ongoing event series is the Economics of Happiness Conference series. To date, we’ve held 25 conferences in 8 different countries. Watch our introduction video here:
Due to Covid-19 our live conference series has been put on hold. In its place we will host our second World Localization Day event on June 20, 2021.
Webinar recordings
Watch our webinars with Helena Norberg-Hodge and leading thinkers and activists — Charles Eisenstein, Bill McKibben, Rupert Reed, and many more.
Local Bites podcasts
Listen to our Local Bites podcasts, featuring inspiring conversations
with people working to build local economies
from the ground up.