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Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA 2017

Conference

The Economics of Happiness Conference was held on October 20th and 21st, 2017 at the Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This conference, organized in collaboration with Community Solutions, focused on localization initiatives, indigenous cultures and community rights, and included plenaries, workshops, keynotes, tours, a preview of Jim Merkel’s film Saving Walden’s World, and a Saturday evening performance by the World House Choir.

Topics included the economics of local food systems, promoting local investment, social impact investing, workers cooperatives, mutual aid networks, closed-loop local systems, local currencies, and more.

Photo by Community Solutions

Local Futures founder and director Helena Norberg-Hodge was presented the Arthur E. Morgan Award, an annual award “to honor those who are passionate about—and committed to—the virtues about which Morgan wrote so comprehensively: Community, Democracy, Entrepreneurship, and Individual Character.”

Photo by Community Solutions

Conference agenda

For more information and full list of speakers: www.communitysolution.org

Shawndra Miller wrote two blogs after attending the Economics of Happiness Conference:

  • Localizing: a systemic solutions multiplier
  • Integrity

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Speakers

Anthony Flaccavento

Anthony Flaccavento

is the author of Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up. He is an economic development consultant and organic farmer from Abingdon, in the heart of Appalachia. His consulting business, SCALE—Sequestering Carbon, Accelerating Local Economies, works with communities around the world to help build more locally-rooted, sustainable economies and healthier food systems. Anthony was the founder of Appalachian Sustainable Development and a number of other ‘social enterprises’ in affordable housing, food and farming and forest and wood products. He writes and speaks regularly about the economy, sustainability, rural development and politics. His You Tube channel, “Take Five with Tony”, covers many of these same topics in down-to-earth, five minute segments.

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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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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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Jim Merkel

Jim Merkel

is the author of Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth. Jim founded the Alternative Transportation Task Force in San Luis Obispo, California, and held an elected Sierra Club position while honing urban simple living skills. He lobbied in Washington for wilderness, peace, and Native American rights. In 1994 he received a fellowship to research sustainability in Kerala, India, and walked in the Himalayas. The following year he founded the Global Living Project (GLP) and initiated the GLP Summer Institute where teams of researchers attempted to live on an equitable portion of the biosphere. Community Solutions is partnering with Jim Merkel on his new film, Saving Walden’s World.

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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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