The Economics of Happiness is a project otthe International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and revtalize cultural and biological diversity by strengthening local communities and economcies worldwide.
Documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. As governments and big business continue to push growth in the form of increased global trade, we are seeing an increase in climate chaos,senseless wars, fundamentalism, financial volatility income, inequality, and consilidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of both; trade and finances. And, far from the old institutuons of power, commmunities are coming thogether to re-build more humane-scale, ecological economies based on new paradigm- an economics of localization.
People from six continents call for economic change by having re-regulation of trade and finance.
| Producer: |
International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) |
| Directors: |
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, John Page |
| Script: |
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, John Page |
| Editing: |
Anna Fricke, Army Armstrong, Meredith Holch
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| Others: |
Cast: Jan Barham, Ronald Colman, Eliana Amparo Apaza Espillico
Music by: Florian Fricke
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Helena Norberg-Hodge founded Local Futures in 1978. Helena is the author of ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’ and ‘Local is Our Future’, and producer of ‘The Economics of Happiness’. She is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’; the Goi Peace Prize for her pioneering work towards a new economy; and the Arthur Morgan Award.
Steven Gorelick has worked with Local Futures since 1987. He is the co-director of ‘The Economics of Happiness’, author of Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized, and co-author of ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’. He writes frequently for the Local Futures blog, and is our financial manager and editor-in-chief. His writings have been published in The Ecologist and Resurgence magazines. He runs a small-scale organic farm with his wife and two children in Vermont.
John Page coordinated the technical and cultural programmes of the Ladakh Project for ten years. He produced our videos, The Future of Progress and the award-winning ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, and co-directed ‘The Economics of Happiness’. He is the co-author of ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’. His series of photographs depicting the spread of the global monoculture have been used by NGOs around the world.
