Join a 3-week international volunteering experience in the Hungarian countryside with Cargonomia! www.szatyorgoesabroad.org/come-to-hung...

World Localization Day 🌎🌱 – 1st June - Netherlands Terranauten starring Helena Norberg-Hodge. Join this masterclass session with Helena and explore what it means in this moment, on this planet to be human on Earth. www.degroeneafslag.nl/activiteit/t...

As part of World Localization Day this gathering will take place in Parque Ibirapuera, one of São Paulo’s most iconic green spaces, hosted by UMAPAZ, the environmental education school located within the park. www.eventbrite.com/e/planet-loc...

Have you registered for our third Sharing Circle yet? It's a World Localization Day Special and the sharing circle is a space for listening, reflection and meaningful dialogue. A free recurring monthly gathering for connection. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/local...

"Across the Far North of New Zealand, there is a growing sense that something fundamental has been lost. Towns that once supported thriving local economies now struggle to retain young people. Main streets have emptied and small farms have disappeared." www.localfutures.org/from-hollowe...

The California Localization Project – a joint project of Local Futures and the Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz – aims to increase visibility to the many California initiatives already building healthy, fair, and resilient communities. rightlivelihood.ucsc.edu/localize/

In this episode, Mattias Desmet explains how the poly-crises roiling the world today ultimately stem from a metaphysical crisis, a “de-souling” of the world produced by a rationalism in Western science that lost sight of its own limitations. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

You are warmly invited to join the Planet Local Sharing Circle — a recurring monthly gathering for connection, reflection, and shared exploration around localization and the global-to-local shift. Join as we celebrate World Localization Day. www.tickettailor.com/events/local...

We believe that one of the prominent aspects of society which stands between us and a more peaceful and just world are the ideas of separation that underpin our global economic system. www.therealeconomy.earth

Join our Planet Local Sharing Circle tomorrow (Tuesday, May 5). In this session, we will explore a question many of us face: How do we talk about localisation in ways that resonate beyond our immediate circles? www.tickettailor.com/events/local...

Join this 6-day festival featuring inspiring thinkers, doers and creatives from around the world exploring wild and kind ideas. This event is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute. permacultureeducationinstitute.org/festival-2026/

Thank you to everyone who joined our first Planet Local Sharing Circle. In this session, we will explore a question many of us face: How do we talk about localisation in ways that resonate beyond our immediate circles? www.tickettailor.com/events/local...

"As supply chain shocks rock the world yet again, we ask: is globalisation a failed experiment?" Listen to Helena Norberg-Hodge on the Wardrobe Crisis Podcast. thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/2026...

In this episode of Planet Local Voices II, Shrishtee lays out the profound nature of indigenous worldviews rooted in collective care and respect for, and intimate relationship with the rest of the living Earth. Listen here: www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

In this episode, Jason defines the social and solidarity economy concepts and diverse practices including collective ownership, cooperation, sufficiency- and needs-based production and exchange, and connects these to the localization and bioregionalist movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oil...

Helena Norberg-Hodge is delighted to be a teacher in “Otherworlds”, an advaya course starting this May that explores localization, cultural resilience, and alternative economic systems. advaya.life/otherworlds

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...