There was lots of heavy stuff on the blog last week, and as I don’t want this blog to be one long rant against political intransigence, I’m going to write about some equally important but more positive stuff this week.
And what could be more positive than the Economics of Happiness, a new film about localization, community, and resistance to the race-to-the-bottom economics of globalization. Yes, it’s one of those documentaries composed of interviews and cutaways of traffic and icebergs. But it’s about new economics, about the future, and it looks rather good:
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people 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.
I haven’t seen the film yet. There was a nef screening I was hoping to get to yesterday, but it was the wrong side of London. If you were there, or have seen the film elsewhere, what did you think?
The Earthbound Report 
Thanks for this info.
I am a big fan of the theories of ISEC and would love to see their thoughts continue to spread and do good