Local Is Our Future

Steps to an Economics of Happiness

Publisher: Local Futures

From a renowned pioneer of the anti-globalization movement, a primer on working towards a localized world

From disappearing livelihoods to financial instability, from climate chaos to an epidemic of depression, we face crises on a number of seemingly unrelated fronts.  This well-referenced book traces the common roots of these problems in a globalized economy that is incompatible with life on a finite planet. But Local is Our Future does more than just describe the problem: it describes the policy shifts and grassroots steps – many of them already underway around the world – that can move us towards the local and, thereby, towards a better world. 

About The Author


About Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for four decades. She is the Director of the non-profit Local Futures, producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and the author of Local is Our Future and the inspirational classic, Ancient Futures. She was honored with the Right Livelihood Award (or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) for her groundbreaking work in Ladakh, India, and received the 2012 Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

Books By Helena Norberg-Hodge

Pages:128 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inch
Publisher:Local Futures
US Pub. Date: June 3, 2019
UK Pub. Date: July 1, 2019
Paperback: 9781732980402

Available In/Retail Price

Paperback, 128 pages, $12.95USD, £10.99GBP