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Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement. Through writing and public lectures on three continents, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy on communities, local economies, and personal identity, and is a leading proponent of ‘localization’, or decentralization, as a means of countering those impacts.

Her book Ancient Futures has been described as “an inspirational classic.” It has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold about half a million copies. The book describes her experiences in Ladakh, or Little Tibet, which she first visited in 1974. For many years, she spent time in Ladakh, working with the Ladakhi people to protect their culture and environment from the effects of rapid modernization. A linguist by training, Norberg-Hodge is the first Westerner in modern times to master the Ladakhi language. In 1978 she founded the Ladakh Project, a small international organization concerned with the search for human scale and sustainable ways of living. For this work, Norberg-Hodge was awarded the 1986 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Price. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning film, The Economics of Happiness, and is the co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture Her most recent book is Local Is Our Future .

The Earth Journal counted Norberg-Hodge among the world’s "ten most interesting environmentalists."

Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Ancient Futures Video

Local Is Our Future by Helena Norberg-Hodge

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