Local Futures Podcast

The Local Futures Podcast features conversations with big-picture thinkers and leaders of localization efforts from around the world. Subscribe to our podcast on Podbean, iTunes, or the podcasting site/app of your choice. Our latest series, Planet Local Voices II, offers grounded insight and big-picture thinking from people working to strengthen local economies, communities and cultures. Nineteen episodes will be released over the coming months, bringing voices from across the world into conversation.

Planet Local Voices II with Vu Truong and Thien Quach - August 5, 2026

In this episode of Planet Local Voices II, Vu and Thien paint an evocative picture of the deeply relational, humble and nurturing traditional values and lifestyles that prevailed until recently in Vietnam, and how these have been dramatically undermined and degraded by the race for material wealth and “success” brought about by recent decades of mainstream development, modernization and “progress”. Still, beneath the pavement and within the cracks of development, the old values still survive, and with them more and more people are turning away from the soul-deadening, polluting mainstream to create “many streams” of regenerative, life-affirming, meaningful alternatives – a process that VCIL Community is playing a vital role in nurturing. Read more

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