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...
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...
Others organize an impressive variety of exciting events, such as: farmers' markets, seed exchanges, workshops, entrepreneur days, and more. Browse the highlights of conversations, special event videos, and find inspiration for your own event:
worldlocalizationday.org/local-action...
Host a local food feast!
World Localization Day is the perfect time to connect with your local food system and what better way to celebrate it than with a Local Food Feast in June?
worldlocalizationday.org/local-food-f...
Host a film screening to raise awareness about localization as a solution-multiplier. A film screening can be for friends, family, neighbours or a public crowd. Check out the films in this link:
worldlocalizationday.org/host-film-sc...
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/
Join this Seed Library Conference!
This conference is designed for communities interested in opening a seed library or have recently opened. Featuring three speakers, each sharing a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. 🎙These presentations will be recorded.
givebutter.com/2026SeedConf...
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...
Share what you are up to 💻 this week using the hashtag #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek
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Read and share 📃 this opinion piece published in TIME magazine today, by UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier DeSchutter - Economic Growth At Any Cost Fails Us All. time.com/7358059/econ...
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Listen to the playlist 🎵 - based on suggestions from all of you on songs for reclaiming the economy. Check it out on a range of streaming platforms here: www.tunemymusic.com/share/Pa2z3V...
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#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...