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Life After Progress by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, Alex Jensen - Local Futures
Life After Progress
Technology, Community and the New Economy

Key essays by Helena Norberg-Hodge and her colleagues at Local Futures, with a foreword by Bayo Akomolafe.

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Written over the past 25 years, some of these essays ask us to rethink our basic assumptions about human nature, poverty, progress, and happiness, while others point to the root causes of our many crises. Taken together, they outline the steps needed to bring a happier, healthier world into being.

These writings are becoming more relevant every day as our crises deepen, and the need for systemic change becomes more apparent.

Praise Life After Progress
“A powerful collection of essays that provide hope and clarity in these confusing and overwhelming times.” — Manish Jain, co-founder of Swaraj University

“As these pages show, beyond 'progress' lies not stagnation or collapse, but a profound renewal of community, society, and ecology.”

Charles Eisenstein
writer, speaker

“This book is a cartography of sensations guiding us through the din of demise. A map to shake you out of the complacency of being so thoroughly found, so thoroughly intelligible, so worryingly available to the imaginations of the familiar.”

Bayo Akomolafe
author, speaker, teacher

“If you care about a future that gets our planet beyond war, pandemics, and climate catastrophes, these essays will provide an inspiring and practical roadmap.”

Michael Shuman
author, economist, teacher

Book club

Are you interested in discussing the book with others? We’re offering a 30% discount to anyone planning to engage with the book collectively as part of a book club or community group. Please contact us for the discount code.

Translations

We are eager to translate ‘Life After Progress’ (in full or in part) into as many languages as possible. If you’re interested in volunteering your time to help with translation, please contact us.

About the authors

Helena Norberg-Hodge - founder of Local Futures

Helena Norberg-Hodge – founder and director of Local Futures, author of ‘Local is Our Future’ and the inspirational classic ‘Ancient Futures’, and producer of the award-winning documentary film ‘The Economics of Happiness’.

Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe – international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and the author of ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’ and ‘We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak’.

Alex Jensen, Researcher and Project Coordinator - Local Futures

Alex Jensen – co-coordinator of Local Futures’ work in Ladakh, part of the core group of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and Local Futures’ representative to the Vikalp Sangam/Alternatives India initiative.

Steven Gorelick Managing Programs Director of Local Futures

Steven Gorelick – Managing Programs Director of Local Futures, co-director of ‘The Economics of Happiness’, author of ‘Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized’, and co-author of ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’.

Henry Coleman, Project Coordinator at Local Futures

Henry Coleman – writer, public speaker, co-coordinator of Local Futures’ work in Ladakh, and co-founder of the Australian NGO Wildspace.

Kunzang Deachen, Project Associate/Coordinator for Local Futures Ladakh

Kunzang Deachen – Project Associate and Coordinator for Local Futures Ladakh, and contributor to ‘Singing Ice’, a book of folk songs about Ladakh’s mountains, glaciers and rivers.

Marjana Kos, Executive Assistant of Local Futures

Marjana Kos – educated in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and active in raising awareness about globalization, new economics, the money system and complementary currencies in her native Slovenia.

Anja Lyngbaek, Associate Programs Director for Local Futures

Anja Lyngbaek – coordinator of World Localization Day 2022, and Local Futures’ spokesperson for localization on several continents.

Chozin Palmo, co-organizer of the 2019 Ladakh Economics of Happiness conference, Local Futures

Chozin Palmo – co-organizer of the 2019 Ladakh Economics of Happiness conference, and founder of the Jangsa initiative.

Jigmet Singge - Ladakh Project - Local Futures

Jigmet Singge – farmer, student, vocalist, and associate of Local Futures Ladakh since 2019.

Kristen Steele, Director of Special Projects for Local Futures

Kristen Steele – Director of Special Projects for Local Futures, and the organizer of several international Economics of Happiness conferences.

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