In this time of uncertainty, how can Localization help us?

  Can our community unite to make a real difference     economically, environmentally and socially? 

Join your local community on September 19th  for the Christchurch premier of the documentary "The Economics of Happiness", followed by an open discussion.

Filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and its predecessor, the Ladakh Project. She is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals such as The Ecologist, Resurgence, and YES! magazine.

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an unholy alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people all over the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.

Helena spoke at TEDxEQChCh in Christchurch in May; you can watch her talk here.

Date: Monday, 19th September.

Time: 7.30pm 

Tickets: Online Sales only (above).

Venue: Hoyts Cinemas, Riccarton.

Website: www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org