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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.

Beautiful Places: A Conversation with Wendell Berry - May 19, 2018

Two giants of the local economy movement, Helena Norberg-Hodge and Wendell Berry, discuss human nature, technology, experiential knowledge, agriculture policy, happiness, wildness, and local food systems in this extended episode.

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Creating the Framework for a New Economy - March 19, 2018

In this episode, Jay Tompt tells the story of the REconomy Project, the “new economy wing of the Transition movement” which is bridging political divides and creating the conditions needed for holistic local economies to emerge…

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From GDP to GNH - February 17, 2018

In this episode, Richard Heinberg discusses the history behind how GDP growth came to be used as a measure of success, why GDP can’t continue growing indefinitely, and why it’s time to transition to a better metric – one that better reflects human and ecological well-being…

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Rebuilding Healthy Communities: The Growing Ecovillage Movement - July 11, 2017

In this episode, Local Futures’ Anja Lyngbaek interviews Kosha Joubert, the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), about the rapidly growing ecovillage movement, which sees the ecovillage concept being adopted and adapted by a multitude of people and diverse cultures across the globe…

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Seeds of Resilience, Seeds of Sovereignty - September 9, 2014

Humanity has lost nearly three-quarters of its agricultural biodiversity in the last century. Now, in the face of an increasingly volatile climate, conserving the remaining seed diversity is a matter of survival. In this episode, Local Bites interviews ecologist and renowned seed conservationist, Dr. Debal Deb on the value of traditional seeds in an unstable world…

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