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You are here: Home / Our Projects / Global to Local / Global to Local Webinar Series / Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change

Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change

with Richard Heinberg & Helena Norberg-Hodge

9th Global to Local Webinar Recording
December 14th/15th, 2016 

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This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President. In it, we go beyond the minutiae of the election campaign and explore the bigger picture, including:

  • The increasingly corporatized and globalized economic system which has led to the rise of Donald Trump and counterparts in Europe
  • The implications of Trump’s election for the international movement for trade justice, climate action, human rights, and localization
  • Why it’s important to differentiate between progressive resistance to free trade and the authoritarian nationalism of Trump
  • Most importantly, where we can go from here and how we can move forward with an agenda for positive systemic change

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from fossil fuels, joined Local Futures’ Director Helena Norberg-Hodge for this webinar, to tackle these issues one by one. Together, they identified some promising strategies, particularly on the local level, for grappling with a post-Trump world, and for rediscovering the political power of community.

Resources to complement the webinar

My Thoughts Following the Election, by Richard Heinberg. November 9th, 2016

Trump: The Illusion of Change, by Helena Norberg-Hodge. November 18th, 2016

Localism in the Age of Trump, by Richard Heinberg. December 8th, 2016

PRESENTERS
 

Richard HeinbergRichard Heinberg (USA) is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He is the author of thirteen books, including some of the seminal works on society’s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis: The End of Growth (2011), Afterburn (2015), Snake Oil (2013), and Our Renewable Future (2016, co-authored with David Fridley). He has written scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature Journal, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, and Yes! Magazine; and on web sites such as Resilience, Alternet, and Counterpunch.

Richard has delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences in 14 countries, addressing policy makers at many levels, from local City Councils to members of the European Parliament. He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour. He is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative. Richard’s animations Don’t Worry, Drive On, Who Killed Economic Growth? and 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds (winner of a YouTubes’s/DoGooder Video of the Year Award) have been viewed by nearly two million people.

Helena Norberg-Hodge (Australia) is the founder and director of Local Futures/ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, described as “an inspirational classic”. She has given public lectures in seven languages, and has appeared in broadcast, print, and online media worldwide. She was honored with the Right Livelihood Award (or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) for her groundbreaking work in Ladakh, and recently received the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

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    • Global to Local Webinar Series
      • All Recordings of Past Global to Local Webinars
      • Sacred Activism in a Post-Trump World
      • Talking Climate with Bill McKibben
      • People Power: Democracy and the Economy
      • Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change
      • Bringing the Food Economy Home
      • A World Without ‘Free’ Trade: What it would look like and how to get there
      • Beyond ‘Free Trade’ – Alternatives to Corporate Rule
      • Education: Promises, Myths and Realities
      • Debt and Speculation in the Global Economy
      • A New Activism
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