Zoe is a blogger for Psychology Today (PT), and twice a month we share her blog posts here. Enjoy!
The economic localization movement is growing, with adherents advocating “buy local” as the answer to our myriad problems.
Author Helena Norberg-Hodge begins her TEDx talk, The Economics of Happiness, with this impassioned plea: “For all of us around the world the highest priority, the most urgent issue is fundamental change to the economy.” She goes on to say, “The change that we need to make is shifting away from globalizing to localizing economic activity.”
This, she suggests, is the economics of happiness.
As a humane educator who teaches about the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection,
