Earth Matters

Localisation movement, Currie Country indigenous food initiatives, women's environmental empowerment


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Have you been to a farmers’ market recently?  If so, you’ll know the great feeling that buying locally grown food and connecting with your community brings. You’ll also be contributing to something bigger. Localisation is a rapidly growing movement resisting globalisation through the rebuilding of place-based cultures, strengthening local communities, and reconnecting people with nature. It’s an alternative economic model offering a healthier way of living in the face of increasing threats to human and ecological wellbeing. This week on Earth Matters we speak to Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of the worldwide localisation movement and the international non-profit organization Local Futures.  We also speak environmental leader Arabella Douglas, a Minyunbul woman of the Bunjalung nation who is addressing environmental challenges in Northern NSW and South East Queensland. Arabella shares the philosophy behind social change think tank Currie Country Social Change and also, her vision for women’s environmental leadership in the Pacific and at home. For further information on Arabella and Helena’s work including a full list of resources and link to Helena’s book ‘Ancient Futures’, head to the website links above. You can view Helena’s documentary on her experience in Ladakh here. Helena Norberg-Hodge and Arabella Douglas are speaking at WOMAD - The Planet Talks Adelaide, March 8-10 This week's show is episode #1492 and was produced by Claudia Craig on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation in Narrm. Image featuring Renzo and Rosie of Renzo's Fresh, Echuca Farmers' Market, kindly supplied by the Victorian Farmers' Market Association.
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Earth MattersBy Bec Horridge, Claudia Craig, Mia Audrey & Keiran Stewart-Assheton.


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