Books and reports
View our collection of books and reports that highlight the need for a shift from the global to the local. Our reports are free to download. All books, e-books, and audiobooks can be ordered from our online store.
Explore our books
Ancient Futures
A moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, a scathing critique of the global economy and a call for economic localization.
Local is Our Future
This book connects the dots between our social, economic, ecological and spiritual crises, and shows how localizing can help solve them all.
Life After Progress
These key essays are becoming more relevant every day as our crises deepen, and the need for systemic change becomes more apparent.
Bringing the Food Economy Home
This book illustrates the bleak realities of ‘global food’ and outlines how we can shift direction.
From the Ground Up
This book is a valuable reference for those concerned with the future of agriculture.
A Journey to New York (opens in new tab)
Download our free comic book setting out to balance the overly glamorous image of modern urban life.
Explore our reports
A Global Movement Comes of Age (opens in new tab)
For the Planet Local Summit 2023 we produced a booklet, in which Helena Norberg-Hodge explains the significance of the global-to-local message.
Localization (opens in new tab)
Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness (opens in new tab)
This booklet summarizes the negative impacts of globalization and outlines how we can move the world towards the local.
Climate Change or System Change? (opens in new tab)
This action paper explores how the climate problem can be tackled effectively if governments stop subsidizing globalization.
Post-Growth Localization (opens in new tab)
This pamphlet outlines the fundamental features of economic globalization and localization and how a shift towards the local might be accomplished.
Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidised (opens in new tab)
This report describes how government policies have consistently supported the large and global at the expense of the small and local. Printed copies can be ordered here.
