Seacoast NH Permaculture

Helena Norberg-Hodge, bestselling author, filmmaker, and pioneer of the new economy movement, shares her experiences working with Indigenous cultures and explores how localization not only heals people and places but also addresses major issues like climate change, food security, and social fragmentation. In this September 24, 2024 Point of Relation interview, she discusses the fundamental importance of reconnecting with nature, local food systems, and community as antidotes to the damaging impacts of globalization.

To clarify - for these discussions, we watch/listen to/read material ahead of time and then discuss it. The authors or speakers are not joining us - we are talking about their work ourselves.

Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

We will make a Hearth Broom (wood handled long broom)

This winter join NOFA-NH and Seacoast Permaculture for a 6-part Zoom book discussion of "Life After Progress: Technology, Community and the New Economy" edited by Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick.

We will meet every other Thursday, 7-8:30pm on Zoom: January 2, January 16, January 30, February 13, and February 27, & March 13.

For our first meeting, please read the Foreward, Introduction and Part 1 (pages i-18).

ABOUT THE BOOK: From a renowned pioneer of the localization movement, an anthology of essays challenging the narrative that technological progress and an increasingly globalized economy will lead us to a better world. This collection has been selected from 30 years of published articles, book chapters and blog posts by the staff of Local Futures, internationally known as pioneers of the emerging localization movement. Some of these writings involve a fundamental rethinking of our most basic assumptions—about progress, poverty, and happiness—while others seek the root causes of our multiple crises. All of them point towards the most strategic steps we can take to confront these problems and bring a healthier, happier world into being. Several of these prescient essays were written decades ago, but they have become even more relevant today as the need for systemic change becomes more apparent.

ABOUT THE EDITOR: Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day. She is the author of ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’, and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’. She is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’.

COST/REGISTRATION: Register here for the whole 6 session series for only $15 per person. We will be grateful for donations beyond that at your discretion! If you do not want to use paypal, we always take checks to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825.

The series will be facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture & NOFA-NH members who are involved in organic growing, education and social justice movements. The goal of our book study is to expand our knowledge and understanding of organic farming, permaculture and food systems and to bring members together to build our community.