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Local Futures Podcast
Tracking the rise of the local economy movement and related ideas from around the world.
Episodes
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Debal Deb
Debal Deb is scientist, biodiversity conservationist and ecologist committed to working with traditional farmers in Eastern India to conserve indigenous seed…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Stanzin Gya
Stanzin Dorjai Gya is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and cultural leader from Ladakh. Born in one of Ladakh’s oldest villages called Gya, Stanzin lived a…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Warwick Smith
Warwick Smith is an Australian economist, ecologist, writer and policy analyst, working across many areas of economic research, from labour and taxation to…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Anja Lyngbaek
This episode features our very own Anja Lyngabek. Anja is the Managing and Programs Director at Local Futures, and has been working tirelessly and…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Vu Truong and Thien Quach
Vu Truong is a program coordinator at VCIL Community, Vietnam, a grassroots movement towards well-being and regenerative society re-imagining every aspect of…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn
Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn is a Māori human rights and environmental advocate from the Ngāti Kurī and Te Rarawa peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand). A lawyer by…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Lars Veraart
Lars Veraart is a veterinarian and agroecological farmer. Together with his wife Robyn, Lars moved from the Netherlands to a small village in the mountains of…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Mattias Desmet
Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium), a practicing…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II with Shrishtee Bajpai
Shrishtee Bajpai is a researcher, writer and activist working at the intersections of environmental justice, earthy governance, indigenous worldviews, and…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II - Jason Nardi - Solidarity Economies for Collective Power
Jason Nardi is the European coordinator of RIPESS - the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy, president of RIES (Italian…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II - Aseem Shrivastava – An Ecosophical Critique of Modernity
Aseem Shrivastava is an environmental economist, philosopher and a writer. He is the co- author with Ashish Kothari of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global…
Local Futures PodcastPlanet Local Voices II - Laura Kaestele - Living Alternatives, Active Hope
Drawing on a wealth of practical experience from regenerative community building, Laura Kaestele, discusses the importance of living models of localization in…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Bayo Akomolafe
We close the Bristol Conversations series with the much-admired teacher, poet and post-activist, Bayo Akomolafe. A public intellectual and writer, Bayo blurs…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Lyla June Johnston
Dr. Lyla June Johnston is an indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné Navajo, Cheyenne and European lineages. She blends her study of…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Manish Jain
In another life, Manish Jain was educated at Harvard, became an investment banker with Morgan-Stanley, and worked with the UN. Since then, he has been on a…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Iain McGilchrist
In the fifth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Iain McGilchrist, the author of the groundbreaking book ‘The Master and His Emissary: The…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Camila Moreno
In the fourth episode of The Bristol Conversations, we hear from Camila Moreno, civil society’s foremost expert on the international COP climate negotiations…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversations – Nelson Mudzingwa
In this episode we hear from Nelson Mudzingwa, a farmer and food sovereignty advocate, working with La Via Campesina. He teaches at the Shashe Agroecology…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversation – Michael Shuman
Welcome to the Bristol Conversations, a new podcast and video series by Local Futures featuring Helena Norberg-Hodge in conversation with some of the great…
Local Futures PodcastThe Bristol Conversation – Darcia Narvaez
Welcome to the Bristol Conversations, a new podcast and video series by Local Futures. In these longer-format, meandering episodes, our founder Helena…
Local Futures PodcastWorld Localization Extravaganza! Part 3: A TOUCH OF GENIUS
The final episode in the World Localization Extravaganza counters the “bigger, more complex and more violent” logic of the dominant system with a bottom-up…
Local Futures PodcastWorld Localization Extravaganza! Part 2: THE POTENT PARADOX
On World Localization Day, 2025, we celebrate a planet-sized paradox – a GLOBAL movement for LOCALization. VISIT OUR CAMPAIGN PAGE…
Local Futures PodcastWorld Localization Extravaganza! Part 1: THE BIG STORY
On World Localization Day, 2025, we come to you with a very big story. It’s a story played out across every continent, told by 15 different voices, over three…
Local Futures PodcastA review of history, future and self: Towards deep transformation
Described as "one of the greatest thinkers of our age," Jeremy Lent is an impassioned researcher and speaker who investigates the underlying causes of our…
Local Futures PodcastStrategizing the local food economy – Christian Jochnick
Christian Jochnick, a Swedish entrepreneur, started his career in social projects for urban youth. After experiencing the challenges around finance in the…