LOCAL - a story of hope

LOCAL highlights the fragility and flawed architecture of our global system and why shifting subsidies and practices to a more local level would make an enormous difference to our future.

Created by Helena Norberg-Hodge & Damon Gameau
Watch time – 8 minutes

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This video relates to three action areas that are vital for regeneration

  1. Harmonising the system
  2. Creating locally focused circular economies
  3. Sharing new stories
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Collective responses

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Change what we measure and incentivise

This response asks us to broaden our metrics of success; to move away from a narrow economic focus, and to make visible and measurable other aspects of our lives that we care about and would like to see improved.

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This response requires us to listen and learn from Indigenous cultures around the world - then integrate these learnings.

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Upgrade democracy

This response urges us to tap into the exciting participatory democracy movements and experiments that are taking place at a national or local level around the world.

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Educating girls & empowering women

This response encourages us to activate our agency, skills and resources to support girls’ education and elevate women with opportunities for growth, employment and leadership.

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Give Rights To Nature

This response requires our legal systems to acknowledge that we are dependent on, and in partnership with, nature - and to evolve by granting personhood rights to ecosystems so that they may be protected under law.

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Actions

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Learn about localisation

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