398) Helena Norberg-Hodge: Artisanal futures and economics of happiness
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
“Once you start rebuilding more localized systems, they are almost without exception, going to be kinder to the environment and kinder to people structurally. ”
In this episode, we are honored to welcome back our guest Helena Norberg-Hodge, a linguist, author, and filmmaker, and the founder of the Local Futures. As a pioneer and proponent of localization (decentralization), as well as her experience living in deep relation with the people of Ladakh over a 40-year period, Helena encourages “locality” grounded in community accountability, slowness, and (bio)diversity.
Join Helena and our host Kamea as we explore the systemic barriers surrounding notions of philanthropy and investment, gift economies, and re-structuring community fabric from the bottom up. Throughout the conversation, Helena urges us to sit with the complexities of modern economic and agricultural practices that extract, monopolize, and homogenize cultures and lifeforms. Ultimately she asks: how might we avoid falling into the pit of “shame and blame” responses to these atrocities, and rather, shed light on historical matrices that have shaped where we are today? In doing so, how can we encourage and learn from existing practices and cultural paradigms that embody localization at its core?
(The musical offering featured in this episode Drop the Stone by Oropendola. The episode-inspired artwork is by Art Twink.)
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:56.0 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, a listener-supported podcast, and I'm your host, Kameh Shane. |
| 1:02.0 | As we embark on a new year for the show, we would love to invite you to join our Patreon community, |
| 1:08.0 | where we'll begin to share bonus episode offerings, some of my own reflections |
| 1:11.9 | on these conversations, and more. If you've been with us for a while, you also know that we |
| 1:17.3 | often explore ideas and perspectives that go against mainstream currents in order to seed more |
| 1:23.2 | imaginative thinking for what could be. So if you value our platform and curiosities and intention |
| 1:29.3 | and want to support us to break through the noise of mainstream media, join us today on Patreon |
| 1:35.0 | at greendreamer.com slash support. If there's anything that we should look at as their enemy, as a structural enemy to life on this earth, |
| 1:49.0 | it's monoculture, because we need to really keep in mind that an absolute principle of life is diversity. |
| 1:58.0 | Every single cell, every single moment in life is unique. The cells in our |
| 2:05.6 | bodies, in every leaf, in everything that lives are not only unique, but changing. In this episode, |
| 2:15.6 | we welcome Helena Norberg-Hodge, who is now a repeat guest of Green Dreamer |
| 2:20.0 | since we first spoke with her a few years ago. |
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