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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.

Why Local Ownership Matters - April 28, 2014

In this episode, Local Bites interviews Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about the multiple social, economic and environmental benefits of local business ownership and community-scaled financial institutions…

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Local Alternatives to Globalized Development: A View from India - February 19, 2014

In this extended episode, Local Bites interviews scholar/activist, Ashish Kothari about his book, Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, co-authored by Aseem Shrivastava…

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How to Feed the World? A Political Agroecological Approach - December 19, 2013

In this episode Local Bites host Brian Emerson interviews Dr. M. Jahi Chappell of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy on the question, “What kind of food and farming system do we need to feed a growing world population in an ecologically sustainable and socially just manner?”

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Helena Norberg-Hodge on how corporate ‘free trade’ deals threaten local communities and economies worldwide - November 13, 2013

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In this episode host Brian Emerson interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge on how “free” trade treaties undermine local communities, economies and democracies around the world, and why localists need to join the global resistance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA, also known as TTIP). Norberg-Hodge ends her interview by suggesting an alternative international framework for supporting more democratic, localized solutions to global problems.

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