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Bangalore, India 2014

Conference

Our 3rd Economics of Happiness Conference took place at Nimhans Convention Centre in Bangalore on March 15th, 2014 and turned out to be a tremendous success.

The conference drew almost a 1000 people and brought together key change-makers from Asia, Africa, Europe, USA and South America and India and followed on from our two successful international Economics of Happiness conferences held in Berkeley, USA in 2012 and in Byron Bay, Australia in 2013.

The conference program included inspiring & thought-provoking talks, presentations, discussions, workshops, as well as interactive spaces.

The Economics of Happiness Conference was organized in close collaboration with Shikshantar (www.swaraj.org/shikshantar) & Bhoomi College (www.bhoomicollege.org).

We would like to give a special thanks to the Japan Foundation  and the Ancient Futures Association of Japan for their sustained support.

Economics of Happiness Gathering with Indian grassroots groups

The public conference on the 15th was part of a three-day gathering  aimed at examining the impacts of the global economy on diverse cultures and ecosystems, and exploring the multiple benefits of strengthening local economies, knowledge systems and cultures.

The gathering, organized in collaboration with Shikshantar, brought together key international change-makers and a 100 Indian leaders, activists and thinkers – representing more than 50 different focus-groups, ranging from:  food, agriculture, land rights,  alternative schooling, new economics, non-violence, climate and energy, holistic healthcare, eco-building, radical ecology, social and environmental justice amongst others.

By including representatives from a wide range of grassroots groups and initiatives from across the world, Local Futures intended to deepen the dialogue between North and South and contribute to the advancement of a broad people’s movement in favor of localized sustainable alternatives to corporate globalization, in India and beyond.

Participating organizations included amongst others:
Economic Research Foundation, Goa Foundation, Lifelong Learning Foundation, Environment Support group, Watershed Organisation Trust, SSSIHMS, Shikshantar, Centre for Education & Voluntary Action Shanghai University, Syamantak, School-Without-Walls, Centre for Education & Documentation, Centre for Learning, Secunderabad, AIKANTHIKA, Kalpavriksh, Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiveristy and Food Sovereignty, Rome, Ekta Parishad, Restore Health Livelihoods and Nature, Chennai, Degrowth Movement, Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG), Peace Research Institue of Meiji Gakuin University, Peak Oil India, Leho-Ladakh Environment and Health Organisation, Navdanya Foods and more…..

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Adebayo Clement-Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) is an ethnopsychotherapeutic researcher, lecturer and author from Covenant University in Nigeria. He is an international speaker, poet and activist for radical systemic shifts in current social, political and economic configurations. He is Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. His is an emerging voice in the world calling for a new forms of consciousness by turning to each other in small ways, and reconnecting with our “shamanic effusiveness and utter magnificence.” Bayo and his “life-force,” Ej, are currently on an enchanted journey to reclaim their lives and intimacy with the earth, with community, and with a larger palette of possibilities. He is writing his second book, And We Shall Dance with the Mountains and a novel, The Boy Who Stayed Outside. Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of a girl, Alethea-Aanya.

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Aseem Shrivastava – India

is an environmental economist, activist, thinker and philosopher. He has been an economics professor for many years in the US and India and most recently a philosophy professor in Norway. Aseem has done extensive research, written and presented studies at international forums on issues associated to globalization, its impact and the interconnections between globalization, economics and ecology. He is the co-author of Churning the Earth : The Making of Global India.

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Ashish Kothari

is founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh; he has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served on Greenpeace International and India Boards, helped initiate the global ICCA Consortium, and chaired an IUCN network dealing with protected areas and communities. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books (including Birds in our Lives and Churning the Earth), and helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam process in search of alternative well-being pathways to globalized development.

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Camila Moreno

works with social movements in Brazil and Latin America on social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion in the region. Her main areas of study, writing and activism in recent years have been on the territorial impacts of development policies and emerging schemes associated to the green economy.

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Carlo Sibilia

was elected Member of Parlament in Italy in 2013 on behalf the Five Star Movement – a new party that advocates direct democracy, nonviolence and degrowth – which has changed Italian politics. Carlo graduated in Biotechnology and went on to work in Bonn, Strasbourg and Barcelona. He has extensive experience in networking, project management and public relations

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Charles Eisenstein

is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks full-time. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. Read more about Charles at http://charleseisenstein.net.

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Claude Alvares – India

is a renowned environmentalist and director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring group, Editor of Other India Press and Director of the Organic Farming Association of India. He has been instrumental in carrying forward the work of the great Gandhian historian of India, Dharampal. Alvares has worked extensively on natural education, creativity and organic farming and has developed a holistic philosophy of life. He is the ideator behind the mulitveristities alliance movement which seeks broadly to decolonise thinking and curricula in our universities.

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Devinder Sharma – India

is a journalist, author, and analyst of agricultural trade policies. He is the chair of the independent Indian Forum for Biotechnology & Food Security, which has worked to keep India free of GMO foods. His books include In the Famine Trap and the forthcoming Keeping the Other Half Hungry. Trained as an agricultural scientist, Sharma has been with the Indian Express and then quit active journalism to research on policy issues concerning sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and intellectual property rights, environment and development, food security and poverty, biotechnology and hunger. Well known for his forthright views on the implications of the free trade paradigm for agriculture in developing countries, Sharma has been dubbed the ‘Green Chomsky’ of India.

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Gloria Germani

is a philosopher with a background in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Oriental Philosophy, focused in the field of inter-religious dialogue and compared philosophy. Author of Mother Teresa: an East-west Mysticism, and the award winning Tiziano Terzani: the revolution inside us. Gloria presently works in the field of cinema and documentaries and is an activist in the Degrowth Movement.

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Helena Norberg-Hodge – Byron Bay, Australia

A pioneer of the new economy movement, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the recipient of both the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. She is the founder and director of Local Futures (formerly ISEC) and the International Alliance for Localization. She produced and co-directed the award-winning film The Economics of Happiness, and is the author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures. Helena is also a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization, the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and the Global Ecovillage Network.

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Keibo Oiwa – Japan

is a cultural anthropologist and leading environmental activist in Japan. He is also a filmmaker, public speaker and author/co-author of over 50 books. He teaches at Meiji Gakuin University and is the founder of The Sloth Club – an NGO that promotes slow and sustainable living. The Sloth Club, coupled with Keibo’s book Slow is Beautiful: Culture as Slowness, have encouraged a new appreciation of rural life and a simpler way of living, with community and nature the focus. Keibo has organised several successful Economics of Happiness conferences in Japan in collaboration with Local Futures. Read more about Keibo here.

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Manish Jain – India

is a leading voice for the regeneration of diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations, and the deschooling of our lives. He is the Co-Founder and coordinator of the Udaipur-based Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, and the co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world: Swaraj University, the Jail University, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walkonnetwork, Udaipur as a Learning City, and the Families Learning Together network. He recently helped to launch the global Ecoversities Network. Manish is the editor of several books on learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, community media, and tools for deep dialogue. Read more about Manish here.

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Rajagopal P. V.

is a Gandhian activist, Vice Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation and founding member of Ekta Parishad – a non-violent movement of 11,000 community organisations and thousands of individuals – focused on building responsible local governance and self-reliance and creating equal access to resources regardless of origin and caste. Rajagopal only uses his first name so not to be associated with a caste.

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Samdhong Rinpoche

was enthroned as the fourth reincarnation of Samdhong Rinpoche at age five. In 1959, Rinpoche fled to India to escape the repressive Chinese government in Tibet. Commissioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as a teacher to monks in exile, he directed the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Varanasi between 1988 and 2001. Rinpoche is the former Prime Minister of the Tibetan Exile Government – the first political leader to be directly elected by the people in exile.

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Yoji Kamata

is the founder and chairperson of the Ancient Futures Association Japan. He is the representative of the 1st and 2nd Ecovillage Design Education in Japan and practical peace education project in Nepal. He is also the advisor to the Himalayan Amchi (Doctor of Traditional Tibetan Medicine) Association in Nepal.

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