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Browse through our extensive collection of press coverage in English and non-English media. You’ll find articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, and more.

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Ancient Futures

By Joel Krieger and Pavani Yalla
Published by
Outside In
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Connecting to the Local, Expanding Our Selves

By Benjamin Freud
Published by
Coconut Thinking
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Interview with
Helena Norberg-Hodge

By Dylan Bagnasco
Published by
Land Ethic
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Online videos

Helena Norberg-Hodge on the corporate-run global economy – interviewed by Russell Brand, Stay Free

Helena Norberg-Hodge on Decentralized, Human-Scale Living – Safe Tech International.

How Can a Mass Localization Movement Bring About Systemic Change? – a panel discussion with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Charles Eisenstein, Jon Aron and George Ferguson hosted by Dan Astin-Gregory. Elevate.

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Podcast interviews

Helena Norberg-Hodge - Local Futures

An Alternative Story of Progress

Published by World of Wisdom

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Planet Local - A Quiet Revolution

Planet Local – A Quiet Revolution

By Alexx Stuart

Published by Low Tox Life

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Articles and interviews

Local Food Feast, photo by John Page

World Localization Day for ‘Crisis-Ridden’ Global System

By Catherine Early

Published in The Ecologist

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'How greed has skewed reality' by Mark Buckley

How Greed Has Skewed Reality

By Marc Buckley

Published in Innovators

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Media in non-English languages

Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures

French

‘La mondialisation expliquée par l’économiste Helena Norberg Hodge’

By Fiorella Carollo, Pressenza

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Helena Norberg-Hodge. Photo by Natalie Grono, The New York Times

Portuguese

E Se Local e Diversificado For Melhor do Que Conectado e Global?

By Damian Cave, The New York Times

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