Online videos
Local Futures Director Helena Norberg-Hodge has given live and online talks at scores of events worldwide, and has been the subject of dozens of video interviews. Watch the highlights or browse all online videos below.
Highlights
Rethinking Globalization with Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Perkins – Meltingpot 2023
The Great & The Good with Helena Norberg-Hodge – Farms Not Factories
How Can a Mass Localization Movement Bring About Systemic Change? – panel discussion with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Charles Eisenstein, Jon Aron and George Ferguson hosted by Dan Astin-Gregory
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2023
The Great & The Good with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Farms Not Factories, September 6, 2023. Watch on YouTube here.
Rethinking Globalization with Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Perkins, Meltingpot 2023, July 20, 2023.
Why localisation is the path to human wellbeing, Resurgence Talk, July, 2023.
Gift of Local Interdependence with Pat McCabe-Woman Stands Shining and Helena Norberg-Hodge, by Genevieve Vaughan and the International Feminists for a Gift Economy, Maternal Gift Economy Movement, June 10, 2023.
2022
Helena Norberg-Hodge on Decentralized, Human-Scale Living, Safe Tech International, October 12, 2022.
UNESCO Webinar Series for COP27, by Khalissa Ikhlef, UNESCO, September 27, 2022.
Plenary: Vitalizing Food, Peace Week, September 20, 2022.
Being Local: A key to Sustainability, Equity and Happiness, Keraleeyam, August 3, 2022.
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, June 22, 2022.
A Simple Concept to Change the World, a conversation with Dan Astin-Gregory. Elevate, April 12, 2022.
What Could Possibly Go Right?, Conversations with Cultural Scouts, interviewed by Vicky Robin. Post Carbon Institute, March 14, 2022.
2021
A View from the Top, interview in The Mint Magazine, December 15, 2021. Read the transcript here.
Local Food First, webinar with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Camila Moreno and Azra Sayeed on Food Systems on “free” trade, technological expansion, and a global food system, September 22, 2023. This webinar was held as part of the GlobalPeople’s Summit September 21-23, 2021.
Local is our Future, interviewed by Marc Buckley. Inside Ideas, September 21, 2021.
The Power of Division in Society, online event moderated by Daniel Kurlapski. Yes&, August 6, 2021
The Fork in the Road Post-Covid, keynote address at FutureSeeds Live@Byron event, June 30, 2021.
World Localization Day 2021, interviewed by Marc Buckley. Special Edition of Inside Ideas, May 12, 2021.
2020
Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association, December 15, 2020.
The Healing Power of Personal, Social and Ecological Well-Being: a Selfcare Tool For You!, interviewed by Sonia Tita Puopolo. Tita Talks, Wellness World USA, November 30, 2020. Also available on Vimeo.
Globalization is Robbing Us of Our Humanity, Localization Can Restore It, a short film by Sustainable Human, script by Helena Norberg-Hodge, November 22, 2020.
Mini episode 1 with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Plastic-Free Mermaid, interviewed by Kate Nelson. Plastic-Free Mermaid, July 23, 2020.
Episode 1 with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Plastic-Free Mermaid, interviewed by Kate Nelson. Plastic-Free Mermaid, July 24, 2020.
Local Means Decentralizing Power, in conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl, June 21, 2020.
What is Your Top Priority to Restart the EU Economy After the Coronavirus?, short video message for the Brussels Economic Forum, June 2020.
Webinar with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Cuckoo Conversations, April 11, 2020.
The Untold Truth About Our Social and Ecological Collapse, interviewed by Cyprien Clerc. Future Seeds, March 1, 2020. Also available on YouTube.
2019
Helena Norberg-Hodge at the Brussels Economic Forum, panel discussion EU Economy and Finance, June 18, 2019.
The Definitive Guide for Humanity’s Next Steps, interviewed by Phil Watt. Dissect Media, April 2, 2019.
Cultures of Happiness, a talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge talk at Big Picture Activism event in Australia. Hosted by Local Futures, February 13, 2019.
Localization, the Solution Multiplier, short video by Human Current. Script by Helena Norberg-Hodge, January 3, 2019.
2017-2018
Looking at the Big Picture, Renegade Inc, October 1, 2018.
Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks at a Climate Action Rally in Byron Bay, Australia, 2017.
Message from Helena Norberg-Hodge at The Economics of Happiness World Forum in Tokyo, Japan. Local Biz, November 30, 2017.
Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks at festival in Italy, Italia 5 Stelle Rimini, September 23, 2017.
2015-2016
One Way to Rebalance the World, Educating Independence, Totnes, UK, September 10, 2016.
Economics of Happiness: How Much Human Scale Is Essential for Solving Our Social and Ecological Problems?, Global University for Sustainability, South Korea, October 8, 2015.
Life and Thought, Global University for Sustainability, South Korea, October 8, 2015.
My Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, interviewed by Samuel Alexander. The Simplicity Collective, August 26, 2015.
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, interviewed by Samuel Alexander. Happen Films, August 26, 2015.
Redesigning Communities: Local Economies and Happy People, interviewed by Philip J. Watt. Elephant Journal, June 20, 2015.
Going Local: The Economics of Happiness, Communities in Control, Australia, May 26, 2015.
Monoculture Threatens our Water Supply, Uplift Connect, February 25, 2015.
2012-2014
Stark Warnings From The UN on Climate Change, Thom Hartmann Program, November 7, 2014.
Max Keiser interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge, RT’s Keiser Report, October 25, 2014.
Local Well-Being Project, Japan for Sustainability, November 14, 2013.
Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Thom Hartmann Show, RT News, April 4, 2012.
Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Thom Hartmann Show, in response to the United Nations conference on happiness, Thom Hartman Show, April 15, 2012.
2007-2011
The Economics of Happiness, TEDx Talks, June 2011.
Economics and Unhappiness, interviewed by Laura Flanders. The Laura Flanders Show on GRITtv, January 26, 2011.
Thoughts on the Economics of Happiness, Pirate Television, January 3, 2011.
Part two: Localization: Development without Destruction, Trace Foundation, December 2010.
Part one: Localization: Development without Destruction, Trace Foundation, December 2010.
Schooling the World, a documentary film by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. Includes extensive interviews with Helena Norberg-Hodge and anthropologist, Wade Davis.
Relocalization And Our Dysfunctional Economic System, in conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl, 2007.
