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From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Peter Goering, Helena Norberg-Hodge, ...

Zed Books, 1993

Modern industrial agriculture is in crisis. In our obsession with 'efficiency' and short-term profit, we are losing all real connection with the natural world. As a result, the dream of global abundance promised by the introduction of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and hybrid seeds is becoming a nightmare of health risks, degraded land and ailing communities. The way we produce our food is destructive and quite simply unsustainable. From the ...

Bringing the Food Economy Home
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, ...

Zed Books Ltd, 2002

Ancient Futures
Helena Norberg-Hodge

RIDER (RAND), 2000

Alternatives to Economic Globalization

13 reviews
John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, ...

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002

Essential reading
The authors of this incisive book issue a timely and essential wake-up call to all those who consider economic globalisation to be a positive, inevitable and irreversible process. The authors' clear and articulate arguments illustrate the extent to which a small rich and powerful corporate elite have pulled the wool over the eyes of the rest of us in selling a corporate model of global trade ...

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

8 reviews
Helena Norberg-Hodge

Random House, Inc., 1991

Riches to Rags
The first half of *Ancient Futures* will delight and amaze you; the second half will break your heart. In the 1970s, the Ladakhis of Little Tibet were a happy people. They had a sustainable traditional economy based on trade and cooperation - not money. One person's gain was not another person's loss. There was plenty of leisure, no hunger or poverty, very little sickness or disease, everyone ...

Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness

1 review
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, ...

Kumarian Press, 2002

From local to global to local
Calculating the true cost of getting your family's typical dinner on the table would reveal a shocking price! In addition to produce cost itself, you would have to include the delivery charges for each meal component: from the producer via long distance shipping, packaging, storage, and distribution to you via your local supermarket. The authors suggest that product travel distance in reaching ...

Faszination Ladakh
Helena Norberg-Hodge

Herder Verlag GmbH, 2004

Leben in Ladakh.
Helena Norberg-Hodge

Herder, Freiburg, 1993

The Future of Progress: Reflections on Environment and Development
Edward Goldsmith, Martin Khor, ...

Green Books, 1995

Quand le développement crée la pauvreté
Helena Norberg-Hodge

Fayard, 2002

Lessons from traditional cultures. (progress and civilization) (Future View): An article from: The Futurist
Helena Norberg-Hodge

World Future Society, 1992

This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on May 1, 1992. The length of the article is 821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: The study of traditional cultures that have remained untouched ...

Quand le développement crée la pauvreté
Helena Norberg-Hodge

Fayard, 2002

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