birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
sweden february 1946 helena-mountains . jpg helena norberg-hodge
 helena norberg-hodge linguist , writer , activist
helena norberg-hodge

helena norberg-hodge is founder and director of local futures/international society for ecology and culture and producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary the economics of happiness .
she is an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide , a pioneer of the localisation movement , and the articulator of the core ideas of counter-development .
based in the us and uk , with subsidiaries in sweden , germany , australia , and ladakh , local futures ' mission is to examine the root causes of our social and environmental crises , while promoting more sustainable and equitable patterns of living in both north and south .
its major activities include the economics of happiness and the ladakh project , as well as lectures , film screenings , workshops and international conferences .
