FILMS FOR ACTION
Videos by Local Future
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems 445 min
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
445 min · Planet Local Voices is video and podcast series featuring cutting-edge thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from across the world, united by a planet local vision of...
Trade Gone Mad 4 min
Trade Gone Mad
4 min · The blind pursuit of global trade is one of the most destructive forces in the world today, wreaking havoc on democracy, livelihoods and the environment worldwide. It's time to shine the...
How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World 5 min
How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World
5 min · This short video urges people to spread the word about the need for an economic shift from global to local. This type of big picture activism can help tackle our social and environmental...
LOCAL: A Story Of Hope 8 min
LOCAL: A Story Of Hope
8 min · LOCAL: A Story Of Hope, examines the root causes of our social and environmental crises - the global economy - and proposes a call to action: “re-regulate the big and global – rebuild...
World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change! 115 min
World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!
115 min · After COVID-19, we can return to stressful disconnected lives and climate catastrophe or we can slow down, scale down and rebuild our connections to each other and to the Earth. On June...
World Localization Day - full version. Be part of this inspirational movement for change! 259 min
World Localization Day - full version. Be part of this inspirational movement for change!
259 min · After COVID-19, we can return to stressful disconnected lives and climate catastrophe or we can slow down, scale down and rebuild our connections to each other and to the Earth. On June...
The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael 55 min
The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael
55 min · Timothy Scott Bennett director of the film What A Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire and author of the novel All of The Above shares his thoughts on the works of Daniel Quinn, author...
Mindful Travel in Ladakh 14 min
Mindful Travel in Ladakh
14 min · In the high altitude desert of the Tibetan Plateau, Ladakhi people have carved a living from the mountains for a thousand years. Tourism in Ladakh, first commencing in 1974, has...
Insane Trade! 3 min
Insane Trade!
3 min · The way trade works in the global economy can be insane – it wastes resources, worsens climate change, and undermines the livelihoods of millions of small-scale producers worldwide. Yet...
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier 2 min
Going Local: the Solution-Multiplier
2 min · A 2-minute introduction to the global-to-local argument.
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version) 19 min
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
19 min · This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an introduction to the...
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times 23 min
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times
23 min · Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness...
Chris Hedges at the "Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis" symposium 22 min
Chris Hedges at the "Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis" symposium
22 min · This is Chris Hedges' talk at the November 2014 "Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis" symposium, an event sponsored by Local Futures/ISEC. For more talks from the symposium, or to learn...
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization 29 min
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization
29 min · Helena Norberg-Hodge's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness Conference, Berkeley, California, March 2012. For more information about the work of Local...
Richard Heinberg: end of the line for economic growth 12 min
Richard Heinberg: end of the line for economic growth
12 min · This is Richard Heinberg's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference, held in Berkeley, California in March, 2012. Richard is a Fellow with the Post Carbon...
Charles Eisenstein at the 2013 Economics of Happiness Conference 13 min
Charles Eisenstein at the 2013 Economics of Happiness Conference
13 min · This is Charles Eisenstein's plenary talk at Local Futures/ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference held in Byron Bay, Australia in March 2013. Charles is the author of The Yoga of...
Rethinking modern schooling 2 min
Rethinking modern schooling
2 min · An edited sequence for our documentary The Economics of Happiness that ultimately did not make it into the film. It offers a critical look at modern schooling in both the global North...
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide 7 min
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
7 min · One no, many yeses. Look to join and grow the movement for localization where you live.
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