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Local Futures Podcast

The Local Futures Podcast features conversations with big-picture thinkers and leaders of localization efforts from around the world. Find all episodes below, including conversations between Helena Norberg-Hodge and Alnoor Ladha, Wendell Berry, Tyson Yunkaporta, Camila Moreno. Subscribe to our podcast through Podbean, iTunes, Google Podcasts, or the podcasting site/app of your choice. New episodes will also be announced in our email updates and posted on our YouTube channel.

Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad - December 20, 2022

Iain McGilchrist Local Futures Podcast

In this episode, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Iain McGilchrist. Iain is a one-of-a-kind thinker, an Oxford literary scholar as well as a doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience. His interdisciplinary achievements reflect his conviction about the importance of holistic thinking – a topic he has explored in-depth in his two ground-breaking works, ‘The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World’, and, more recently, ‘The Matter with Things’.

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Charles Eisenstein – Towards a New and Ancient Culture - December 1, 2022

Charles Eisenstein - Towards a New and Ancient Culture

In this episode, Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks with Charles Eisenstein. Charles is a pioneering storyteller of a new world – in his words, “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible”. His writings and talks, renowned for their eloquence, deal with civilizational history and mythmaking, new economies, spirituality, pandemics, power, climate change, ecological living, and – at the deepest level – who we are as human beings. This conversation examines truth, metaphysics, learning from traditional cultures, activism and more, exploring various aspects of the civilizational transformation at hand in a post-covid world. Together, Helena and Charles decry the power structures that continue to dominate modern global society, and share stories of hope from the grassroots.

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Vandana Shiva – The Power of People - October 25, 2022

Vandana Shiva Local Futures Podcast

In this episode, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to her friend and colleague of 40 years, Vandana Shiva. Vandana trained as a quantum physicist, but turned her attention to campaigning for the rights of small farmers, seed savers and local communities in her home country of India when she witnessed the imposition of industrial agriculture and its tragic impacts on health, biodiversity and livelihoods. Today, she is one of the most powerful voices challenging corporate rule.

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Mental Health in the Global Economy with Gabor Maté - September 9, 2022

Gabor Maté Local Futures Podcast

In this newly published episode of the Local Futures podcast, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to the renowned Dr. Gabor Maté. The two dispel false ideas about human nature and analyze the ways macro-level economic structures are impacting our personal identities. A remarkable and far-reaching compassion for people from all walks of life imbues their conversation.

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Jeremy Lent: Shifting Paradigms - December 28, 2021

Jeremy Lent Local Futures Podcast

Described by journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” Jeremy Lent is the founder of the Liology Institute and the author of ‘The Patterning Instinct’ and, most recently, ‘The Web of Meaning’. His work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. In his own words, his work: “has been a journey of many years, during which I dedicated myself full time to deep research in disciplines such as neuroscience, history, and anthropology, and to exploring the great traditions of Buddhism, Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, and Indigenous wisdom.”

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