Local Futures is involved in the 2026 Right Livelihood International Conference - April 13 – May 8, 2026. We are contributing with two (pre-recorded) sessions. Join here: rightlivelihood.ucsc.edu/conference/

@theamiba.bsky.social celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Helena Norberg-Hodge. She’s the founder and director of Local Futures, a nonprofit dedicated to renewing ecological and social well-being by strengthening communities and local economies. amiba.net/local-legend...

The second episode in our Planet Local Voices II series is here and it's with environmental economist, Aseem Shrivastava. 🌎⭐️🌱 Watch the video in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20JP...

The second episode in our Planet Local Voices II series is here and it's with environmental economist, Aseem Shrivastava. 🌎⭐️🌱 Listen to the podcast in full here: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

Listen to this thought-provoking conversation between Helena Norberg-Hodge, renowned expert on local economies, and Dr. Demeter, a passionate advocate for connecting back to Life through life supporting systems like local food. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvAs...

“I really think we can have a very powerful movement very quickly once we go beyond the local thinking. We mustn’t think too locally. We’ve got to think globally to understand why everyone benefits from localisation“ Read 'An Evening with Helena Norberg Hodge'. shaks.blog/2026/02/13/a...

We're back with our second series of Planet Local Voices. 🌱⭐️🌎 Listen to Living Alternatives, Active Hope with Laura Kaestele now: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

"Lo que sí importa es que estamos acosodiados con la ideología de maximizar el tener mientras minimizamos el hacer. Esta ha sido durante mucho tiempo la narrativa del capitalismo y ahora también es la tecnología. Es una ideología que nos roba las relaciones y, finalmente, a nosotros mismos".

Our film Economics of Happiness was included in RELEVANT Magazine's 6 Documentaries that will challenge the way you see the world list 🌎 relevantmagazine.com/culture/movi...

We're back with our second series of Planet Local Voices. 🌱⭐️🌎 Listen to Living Alternatives, Active Hope with Laura Kaestele now: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

"No one locality or bioregion can do it on its own, so we need to find ways to work horizontally, networking across the landscape, finding ways to mutually aid each other." www.localfutures.org/we-are-in-a-...

Ever since Al Gore stood up on his soapbox, we’ve had the finger pointed at our individual behavior. Meanwhile, global corporations were needlessly transporting goods across the world, contributing to massive increases in emissions and mountains of plastic waste. www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

"What does matter is that we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and eventually our selves." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

World Localization Day, June 2026 is back! 🌎🌱⭐️ Our annual worldwide campaign will take place this June and we're looking for people to get involved! Find out more about getting involved here: worldlocalizationday.org/get-involved/

Reclaiming this freedom is central to building resilient, equitable, and sustainable food systems. By localizing production, strengthening small-scale farming, and rejecting corporate dominance, we can decolonize our food systems. www.localfutures.org/colonisation...

Join a rare opportunity to participate in a full Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) online and LIVE, led by top facilitators and experts from around the globe. www.gaiaeducation.org/online-ede

As they host their 5th online conference, REC becomes an emergent research experiment and a living laboratory for critical pedagogy. This year, we learn from the changing cycles of our collective work and from the wisdom of the Earth and its elements. re-imagining.education

Helena Norberg-Hodge's 80th birthday was an occasion to honor a lifetime – 50 years – of devotion to living, local, life-centered cultures—the very ground that Kindred World and the Evolved Nest are working to protect and restore in families and communities today. kindredmedia.org/2026/01/hono...

#ReclaimTheEconomyWeek is now officially underway, and there are plenty of ways you can get more involved: Sign and share the petition 📷 calling on leaders to urgently redesign our economic systems: www.reclaimtheeconomy.org/petition

We are excited to share that one of our dear friends and partners, Dr. Lyla June, is launching a new course through her online school called the Re^Human School, an Indigenous-Led suite of courses mobilizing humanity towards hands-on ecological regenerative action. www.rehuman.earth/courses

🌱 Seed Library Conference: Getting Started. Feb. 14. This conference is designed for communities interested in opening a seed library or have recently opened. We'll feature three speakers, each sharing a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. givebutter.com/2026SeedConf...

During this 90-minute session, Donna Morton and Michael Shuman will share their knowledge of investing locally, supporting the local economy, and building bioregional institutions, including ideas for moving your money from Wall Street to Main Street. www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

"Changing how we live and becoming deeply rooted in our places can help us push back against the dominant systems that support current unsustainable, unjust ways of life." www.localfutures.org/living-conne...

Lars Veraart, founder of ALPA, Land for Life talks with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures on the importance of local food systems at the Planet Local Summit, Ladakh September 2025. Watch there full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGh...

We close the Bristol Conversations series with the much-admired teacher, poet and post-activist, Bayo Akomolafe. Listen to the episode here: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

Join us on this journey of ideas, stories, and transformation. The final episode of the Bristol Conversations with Bayo Akomolafe is now live! Subscribe to the Local Futures Podcast or YouTube channel to find all episodes. www.localfutures.org/programs/the...

We close the Bristol Conversations series with the much-admired teacher, poet and post-activist, Bayo Akomolafe. In this conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Bayo reflects on the ruptures in modernity that have sparked his own questioning. Listen now! 🌎 www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

Feeling uprooted in a fast, unraveling world? Deepen Your Roots is a communal journey into belonging, animate ecology + grounded embodiment — featuring Helena Norberg-Hodge. Use code LOCALFUTURES10 and save 10%. 🌿 Join the rooting ones: rootedhealing.org/deepen

"In these gatherings, people were not being consulted. They were building strategies. The conversations were not about carbon markets or corporate alliances." Thais Mantovani travelled to COP30 in Belém where she discovered deeper conversations happening. www.localfutures.org/what-i-saw-o...

"In these gatherings, people were not being consulted. They were building strategies. The conversations were not about carbon markets or corporate alliances." Thais Mantovani travelled to COP30 in Belém where she discovered deeper conversations happening. www.localfutures.org/what-i-saw-o...

Explore pathways to real system change. 🌱 Join Martin Winiecki & Juliette Baigler for a course blending systemic thinking, embodiment & radical imagination. Register here: martinwiniecki.org/radical-futu...

Listen to Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Kincentric Social Justice podcast. Everything We Need Comes From The Earth with Helena Norberg-Hodge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG0U...

Our team has been busy making a new website. Head over to localfutures.org and explore all of our amazing tools, videos, podcasts and more! 🌎⭐️ You can also sign up to our newsletter and keep up to date with everything happening at Local Futures and beyond. 🌱 www.localfutures.org

Have you listened to the latest episode of The Bristol Conversations? 🌎⭐️🌱 In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

Have you listened to the latest episode of The Bristol Conversations? In this conversation, Helena and Lyla June Johnstone weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

Listen to Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Kincentric Social Justice podcast. Everything We Need Comes From The Earth with Helena Norberg-Hodge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG0U...

‘Humanity has missed the mark. Humanity has failed.’ As COP30 ended on Friday, this was the media’s take on the UN Secretary-General’s announcement that 1.5 degrees of global warming has now been locked in. We should be rolling our eyes at such proclamations. www.localfutures.org/humanity-is-...

Sign up to the Local Futures Newsletter and stay informed about upcoming events and inspiring localization initiatives, and get a ‘big picture’ perspective on current events. 🌎⭐️🌱 www.localfutures.org/sign-up-to-o...

The latest episode of the Bristol Conversations podcast is available to listen to now! 🌎⭐️🌱 In this conversation, Helena and Lyla weave together different lines of heritage and experience, getting into deep discussions about identity, psychology and culture. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

"And it’s also why we need global collaboration in order to bring about the changes to the system that would allow us to respect more localized knowledge, more decentralized structures." drronehrlich.com/localization...

"The challenges here in Kurdistan—chemical dependency, land dispossession, water theft—are not unique. They are symptoms of a global food system built on inequality and exploitation. But the responses emerging here." Read our latest blog post: www.localfutures.org/the-food-you...

In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. 🌎 Watch the episode here: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

In this sixth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Manish Jain, a leading voice on rethinking education and development. Watch the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gl6...

In our latest episode of The Bristol Conversations, Manish Jain and Helena Norberg-Hodge bounce of each other in a radical questioning of concepts like progress, freedom, wealth, empowerment and knowledge. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

“Better production ultimately means … protecting soils instead of depleting them, it means using water more wisely, it means bringing back diversity and local solutions.” www.localfutures.org/how-to-feed-...

This Thursday, October 23rd, at 10am in Brazil, join us for the webinar "Community Land Ownership Models to Protect Biodiversity and Secure Adequate Housing for All", featuring amazing speakers from Barbuda, Chile and Brazil. Register here: forms.gle/sGCmHPUXGYYSkHe26

In this episode of Death in the Garden, Helena Norberg-Hodge discusses the problems of globalization, the global monoculture, and the breakdown of our relationships with each other and the living economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5d4...

In this month’s Food X, the Center’s festival coordinator, Linda Rico, writes about the importance of keeping food justice at the forefront of the sustainable food movement. Read the article here: www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...

Kincentric Social Justice is an initiative exploring the intrinsic link between our capacity to meaningfully engage with social justice matters and our relationship with the more-than human world. Listen to their latest episode with Helena Norberg-Hodge.

At their best, farmers’ markets flip the industrial food model on its head, giving communities more agency over how their food is grown, distributed, and enjoyed. Read our latest blog post 'Rooted in Place by Justin Cantafio'. www.localfutures.org/rooted-in-pl...