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Byron Bay, Australia 2013

Conference

March 15th – 17th, 2013

Byron Bay Community Centre

Byron Bay, Australia

 

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The Economics of Happiness Conference 2013: An Introduction

Helena Norberg-Hodge: Local Food, Global Prosperity

Mark Anielski: The Economics of Genuine Happiness

Richard Neville: Counterculture, Corporate Rule and Democracy

Dave Rastovich: A Life Close to Nature

Manish Jain: Localizing Knowledge, Decolonizing Our Minds

Pracha Hutanuwatr: Restoring a Healthy Sense of Identity — Freedom from the Consumer Culture

Bayo Akomolafe: We Will Tell Our Stories

Devinder Sharma: The Virtues of Local Food–An Indian Perspective

Benjamin Villegas: Local Food — The View from Colombia

Winona LaDuke: Restoring Indigenous Communities and the Ecological Balance

James Skinner: Transitioning to a New Economy

Michael Shuman: Local Dollars, Local Sense

Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Hwang Dae-Kwon: Know Your Body for Reconnecting to Nature

Keibo Oiwa: Cultural Creatives and Localisation Movements in Asia

Plenary 5 – (1/3) – Envisioning the Future: What would a Localised World Look Like?

Plenary 5 – (2/3) – Envisioning the Future: What would a Localised World Look Like?

Plenary 5 – (3/3) – Envisioning the Future: What would a Localised World Look Like?

Junko Edahiro: From Local Initiatives to Global Movements

Donnie Maclurcan: Localisation Initiatives — An Overview from Australia

Yoji Kamata: Resistance and Renewal in Post-Fukushima Japan

Nicole Foss: Community Resilience in a Century of Challenges

Echonetdaily: The Economics of Happiness Conference 2013 Byron Bay, Australia

 

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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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Benjamin Villegas

is a chef and business owner whose restaurants help to strengthen local food and farming by relying on hundreds of local farmers and suppliers. His Wok restaurants are widely recognized throughout Colombia for responsible practices and a healthy relationship with small communities.

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Bill McKibben

is the author of a dozen books about the environment and the economy, including The End of Nature and Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He is an internationally known speaker on these issues and founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org. Bill will be speaking at the conference via live video link.

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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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Dave Rastovich

or ´Rasta´ is a world renowned professional surfer and a hero to many young people in Australia. He is the co-founder of the environmental group Surfers for Cetaceans, and initiator of various campaigns to protect dolphins and whales. His approach to life shows how true happiness and fulfillment is found through interaction with nature, rather than through materialism and hype.

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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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Donnie Maclurcan

is a distinguished fellow with the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, and the author of Nanotechnology and Global Equality. He co-founded the Post Growth Institute, which explores economic paths that don’t rely on growth, and founded Project Australia, which helps people start and sustain not-for-profit initiatives.

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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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Hwang Dae-Kwon

is an author, farmer and eco-activist. In 1985, he was arrested by the military government and spent 13 years as a political prisoner. On his release he wrote the best-selling A Weed Letter, which described how observing weeds and plants while in jail helped maintain his mental and spiritual health. He founded and remains involved in numerous activist organisations, including the Eco-Community Movement and the Life-Peace Movement.

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James Skinner

is an environmental economist and passionate promoter of renewable energy. He specialises in sustainable urban transport initiatives, and is the owner of R&D companies that focus on clean transport and energy. As former chairman and present trustee of the New Economics Foundation, he has worked for decades to promote alternative economics, both nationally and internationally.

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Junko Edahiro

is an environmental journalist and researcher whose publications include Beyond ‘Eco’: How to Make a Happy Future, and A way Out of the Energy Crisis. She is the founder and President of the Institute for Studies in Happiness Economy and Society, and co-founder of Japan for Sustainability. Junko plays a major role in the slow movments in Japan and works with many organisations and initiatives including Change Agent and the Candle Night campaign.

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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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Kerrianne Cox

is a first Australian who learned the old songs from the elders of her ancestral home of Beagle Bay. She is today an award-winning singer and songwriter whose music celebrates the spiritual depths of her culture, as well as the struggles of the First People’s road to empowerment. She was elected as Chairperson of Beagle Bay Community by her people in 2004, and remains a powerful catalyst for change.

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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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Mark Anielski

is an economist specializing in measuring wellbeing and happiness. He is the author of the award-winning book The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth.

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Michael Shuman – USA

Economist, attorney, author, and leading visionary on community economics. Author of ten books, including: Local Dollars, Local Sense; The Small-Mart Revolution; Going Local; and The Local Economy Solution. He is also Director of Local Economy Programs for Neighborhood Associates Corporation, a founding partner of Local Analytics, and an Adjunct Professor at Bard Business School.

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Nicole Foss

runs the Agri-Energy Producers’ Association of Ontario, Canada, focusing on localised solutions for renewable energy needs. She is also co-editor of The Automatic Earth, where she chronicles and interprets our cascading economic and ecological crises, and points to the ongoing credit crunch as the most pressing aspect of our current global predicament.

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Pracha Hutanuwatr

was an ordained monk for eleven years and is a leading practitioner of Engaged Buddhism. He is director of the Young Awakening Institute and the deputy director of the Right Livelihood Foundation, as well as a writer, translator and educational facilitator.

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Richard Neville

is a futurist and author of several books, including Footprints of the Future and Amerika Psycho. He is the founder of the Australian Futures Foundation, which offers tools & techniques for the prediction of change.

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Vandana Shiva

is an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India’s Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, and numerous other prizes.

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Wasif Rizvi

is a leading voice in Pakistan on religion and indigenous philosophies and their influence in shaping social, political and economic processes in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. He is the CEO of Habib University Foundation, and helped to found the Institute for Development Studies and Practices, which rethinks the foundations of education and development in South Asia. *

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Winona LaDuke

is an American Indian activist, environmentalist, economist and writer. In 1996 and 2000, she was the Green Party candidate for US vice president, running with Ralph Nader. She is the executive director of both Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project, and co-founder of the Indigenous Women’s Network.

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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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