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Media
Press coverage of Helena's work in English and non-English media. You’ll find articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, and more...
Courses
Localisation with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Earthed, September, 2023.
An Indictment Against the Dark Side of Economic Globalization with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Great Minds, 2023.
Conversations & Interviews
Localization, Happiness and Planetary Health – A Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, hosted by Dr Ron Ehrlich, Dr. Ron Ehrlich podcast, November 10, 2025. Also available on YouTube.
Local and Ancient Futures, hosted by Dr Meghan Roekle, Common Good, September 30, 2025. Also available on YouTube.
Why Your Coworking Space Matters More Than You Think with Helena Norberg-Hodge, hosted by Bernie J. Mitchell, Coworking Values Podcast, July 3, 2025.
Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities and Economies, hosted by Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification, June 11, 2025. Also available on YouTube.
The Future Is Local: Rebuilding Economies and Healing the Earth, hosted by Jennifer Walsh and Monica Olsen, Biophilic Solutions, June 9, 2025.
Economics of Happiness, with Helena Norberg-Hodge, hosted by Alanna Goldsmith, Radio Paradise, May 15, 2025.
Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, by Dr. Demeter, Heart, Head, and Hands, March 24, 2025.
Local Futures, with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Peter Martin, Warwick Smith. Facilitator Tory Shepherd, WOMADelaide 2025, March 21, 2025.
Conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge, hosted by Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human, March 12, 2025.
Putting Tech in its Place • Waterpeople Podcast, February 5, 2025
Trying to Make a Global Change With a Local Focus • Keridwen Cornelius, The New York Times, November 26, 2024.
Local Action for Systemic Healing • Thomas Hübl, Point of Relation, September 24, 2024.
Conversation Series with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Berry Liberman, Small Giants Academy, August 16, 2024.
Awaken to Your Power to Bring About Systemic Change - Part 2 - Helena Norberg-Hodge • Debra Moffitt, The Oneness Connection, August 16, 2024.
Going Local Creating Thriving Communities and Economies - Part 1 - Helena Norberg-Hodge • Debra Moffitt, The Oneness Connection, August 9, 2024.
Unlearning Realities with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Anthea Lawson, and Jae Spencer-Keyse • Amisha Ghadiali, all that we are, July 10, 2024.
Voices of Meltingpot - Helena Norberg-Hodge • Meltingpot, January 30, 2024.
Rethinking Globalization with Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Perkins • Meltingpot 2023, July 7, 2023.
World Localization Day with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Amar La Tierra Ibiza Podcast, June 21, 2023. Available in Spanish language here.
Why is life getting harder and faster? The need to embrace localism • The Examined Life Podcast, June 10, 2023.
Gift of Local Interdependence with Pat McCabe-Woman Stands Shining and Helena Norberg-Hodge • Maternal Gift Economy Movement, June 10, 2023.
Resisting the Global Monoculture through Localization • Death in the Garden, April 20, 2023.
An Alternative Story of Progress • World of Wisdom, March 2, 2023.
Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Dylan Bagnasco, Land Ethic, November 3, 2022.
Connecting to the Local, Expanding Our Selves • Benjamin Freud, Coconut Thinking, October 23, 2022.
Our Ancient Futures • by Joel Krieger and Pavani Yalla, Outside In, October 20, 2022.
Globalization vs Localization • Dave and Steve, The Happy Pear Podcast, June, 2022.
World Localization Day for ‘Crisis-Ridden’ Global System • Catherine Early, The Ecologist, April 27, 2022.
“Localization” Can Help Free the Planet From Neoliberal Globalization • an interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Truthout, January 2, 2022. (Also published by Znet and by The Rozenberg Quarterly).
How Greed has Skewed Reality • Marc Buckley, Inside Ideas, September 21, 2021.
What if Local and Diverse is Better Than Networked and Global? • Damien Cave, The New York Times, October 9, 2020
On Radical Cultural Change • Helena Norberg-Hodge, by William Powers, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2020
Going Local: Hope in a time of Crisis - Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge The Echo, February 25, 2020
Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge The Echo, February 14, 2020
To Heal the Planet We Must First Heal Ourselves • Ella Liascos, Gobe Magazine, December 2019
Why Local is Beautiful • Mandy Nolan, Echo Netdaily, November 19th, 2019
Caretaking • Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2018
Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Recourse, 2017
Wellbeing campaigner: society should shape business – not the other way round • Anna Leach, The Guardian, July 18, 2017
Globalization and Climate Change: A Dialogue With Graciela Chichilnisky and Helena Norberg-Hodge • Marcus Rolle and C. J. Polychroniou, Global Policy, November 7, 2016
For Personal and Planetary Well-Being, Localize the Economy • Truthout, April 5, 2016
Globalized Monoculture Is Consuming the Planet • Truthout, March 31, 2016
The Meaning of Life and the Spiritual Connection to the Living World • Excellence Reporter, February 12, 2016
A New Call for Resistance and Renewal • Resurgence & Ecologist, July/August 2015
Talking Resilience with Helena Norberg-Hodge: Experiencing Traditional Community Resilience • Post Carbon Institute, July 15, 2015
Learning from Ladakh: a Meeting with Helena Norberg-Hodge • Wise Attention, November 19, 2011
Helena Norberg-Hodge interview by Junko Edahiro • Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy and Society, February 8, 2011
Is Localization of Agriculture Unrealistic? • David Barsamian of Z Magazine interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge, January 13, 2010
Articles
Helena Norberg-Hodge: “More hands and hearts per hectare, it’s what the land needs to heal” • Nadine Maarhuis, We Are The Regenaration, October 30, 2024. Find Dutch translation here.
Lessons from Ladakh: the Himalayan birthplace of the localisation movement • The Standard, August 6, 2024.
Nothing is Black, Nothing is White • Muhlis Soysal, Medium, April, 2024.
The Bigger Picture Uniting Us All • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Institute of Natural Law, March 27, 2024.
The Power of Decentralization • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Great Transition Initiative, November, 2023.
Bristol 2023: a global movement for change comes of age • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resurgence, May-June, 2023.
Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and Henry Coleman, Truthout, May 22, 2022.
‘Globalization explained by economist Helena Norberg-Hodge’ • Fiorella Carollo, Pressenza, International Press Agency, July 8, 2021
Localisation Debate • Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Echo, June 25, 2021
Pat McCabe is a Voice for Peace • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Dumbo Feather, June 22, 2021
A Hands Up Poll • Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page, The Echo, May 14, 2021
Johann Hari Makes Connections • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Dumbo Feather, December 14, 2020
Strengthening the Beginnings of a Real Local Food Movement • Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Echo, December 29, 2020
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Kosmos Journal, August 3, 2020
Postscript to ‘What’s for Dinner?’ • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rural Jersey Country Life Magazine, July 2020
Mika Tsutsumi Creates Local Pathways • Interview by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Dumbo Feather, June 23rd, 2020
The Power of Going Local • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Dumbo Feather, June 4, 2020
Resist Globally, Renew Locally • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, September 24, 2019
Community, connection and localism • Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Ecologist, August 19, 2019
Resist Locally, Renew Globally • Contribution to GTI Forum Think Globally, Act Locally?, Helena Norberg-Hodge , August 2019
Local is Our Future • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, July 18, 2019
Localisation: The Pathway to Human Connection • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, June 27th, 2019
Close to Home: ‘Why Local Food is the Future’ • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Positive News, June 25 2019
Big Picture Activism Challenges Economic Growth • Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Echo, January 31, 2019
Buddhism in the Global Economy • Helena Norberg-Hodge, from The Fall 2005 issue of Inquiring Mind, January 29, 2019
Local heroes • Helena Norberg-Hodge outlines how localising economic activity could halt ecological breakdown, Transform IEMA, December 14h, 2018
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment • Helena Norberg-Hodge, TruthOut, December 1st, 2018
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction? • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures, October 10, 2018
A Strategic Solution to Globalised Authoritarianism • Helena Norberg-Hodge, The Echo, May 22, 2018
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, May 12, 2018
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Vivir Bien • Helena Norberg-Hodge, February 2018
Review of From Global to Local, the Making of Things and the End of Globalization • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resurgence Issue 306 • January/February 2018
Book Review: From Global to Local – the Making of Things and the End of Globalization • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, November 2, 2017
Is the current globalised economic model compatible with solving climate change? • Helena Norberg-Hodge, UNA-UK Climate 2020, September 18, 2017
Trump Trauma • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, April 4, 2017
Local Economies: Tipping the Scale • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resurgence Issue 299, November/December 2016
Britain And The EU: Beyond The False Dichotomy Huffington Post, July 8, 2016
Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’ • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures blog, June 13, 2016
The Challenges Ahead • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resurgence Issue 296, May/June 2016 (Resurgence 50)
A New Call for Resistance and Renewal • Helena Norberg-Hodge, Resurgence Issue 291, July/August 2015
Strengthening Local Economies: The Path to Peace? • Tikkun Magazine, July 29, 2015
About Helena
Happy 75th Birthday, Helena! • The Echo, January 13, 2021
Helena Norberg-Hodge receives Arthur Morgan Award • The Echo, January 10, 2018
Byron Bay Woman Wins Goi Peace Award • ABC Northcoast NSW, July 18, 2012