Screening of the film "The Economics of Happiness"

“The Economics of Happiness,” a film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page that describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people all over the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. The film features Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg.