Becky Tarbotton of ISEC and Eileen Brady of Ecotrust lead a workshop called "Bold Vision for Change," and discuss ISEC's report Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy.

Location: Monterey Bay, California

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a plenary speaker.

Location: Island of Oahu, Hawaii

Palm Sunday is also the 2nd anniversary of the illegall invasion of Iraq. Byron Bay's all-day event begins with an Aboriginal fire ceremony and a Peace Walk. Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks on the world wide resistance to the war and leads a
a workshop session.

Location: Byron Bay, Australia

Helena Norberg-Hodge leads a public talk at the Byron Bay Community Centre.

Location: Byron Bay, Australia

Life in Little Tibet: An Insider's View

Helena Norberg-Hodge leads a discussion following a showing of ISEC's films Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Paradise with Side Effects at the Lounge Cinema in The Arts Factory.

Location: Byron Bay, Australia

Alex Jensen presents ISEC's Local Food Slideshow at this meeting between small producers from the global south working with "fairtrade", local networks of organic producers and consumers, "Botteghe del mondo" and organisations working on other related local food issues.

Location: Bolonga, Italy

Alex Jensen and Wangial Lakruk from Ladakh participate in a workshop to present issues arising from a European Commission funded project, "Natural Resource Management in the Mountain Regions of Asia: Community-Led Research Requirements". Last year a team from this project visited remote areas in Ladakh to involve villagers in a participatory video project. For more information on the video, see Insight's website.

Location: Aviemore, Scotland

ISEC's Local Food Toolkit set of 18 posters on display at the Ecology Center event planned for Berkeley's 2005 Earth Day celebration.

Location: Berkeley, California

Haulting Cultural & Environmental Destruction: Lessons from Little Tibet

Helena Norberg-Hodge leads a discussion following a showing of ISEC's films Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Paradise with Side Effects. An event co-sponsored with the Berkeley Ecology Center.

Location: Berkeley, California

Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks on ISEC's work in Ladakh and shows ISEC's films Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Paradise with Side Effects.

Location: Telluride, Colorado

Right Livelihood Award Ceremony

Helena Norberg-Hodge attends the Right Livelihood Award's 25th anniversary ceremony.

Location: Salzburg, Austria

Right Livelihood Award Ceremony

Helena Norberg-Hodge addresses the AIESEC Ethical Leadership
Seminar in London. A discussion follows a viewing Paradise with Side Effects. For more information, see AIESEC's Ethical Leadership Seminar website.

Location: London, England

Rethinking Development: Local Pathways to Global Wellbeing

ISEC's film Ancient Futures shown as part of the 2nd International Conference on Gross National Happines taking place at St. Francis Xavier University. For more information see: gpiatlantic.org.

Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

"Food Under Threat"

Helena Norberg-Hodge gives a presentation on "Globalisation and loss of democratic control - Effect of commodification and corporate control on farmers, consumers and the environment" at the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Feasta) conference, "Food Security in an Energy Scarce World." For more details please contact: feasta@anu.ie

Location: Dublin, Ireland

ISEC Fundraiser

A performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni to be followed by Helena Norberg-Hodge giving a brief presentation. £45/£65 per ticket. For tickets and information, please email: antoniaf@talk21.com

Location: Wiltshire, UK

Global Food versus
Local Food:
Steps to a Local Food Economy

ISEC Slideshow and discussion sponsored by the Hardwick Community Learning Exchange. GRACE Building, Mill Street, 6:30 pm.

Location: Hardwick, Vermont

Local Food Festival

ISEC's Local Food slideshow and poster display and the Polish translation of ISEC's Ancient Futures film will be all be presented as part of the Local Food Festival, sponsored by Wydawnictwo "Zielone Brygady". For more info contact Andrzej Zwawa: zb@zb.eco.pl

Location: Wolnika Square,
Cracow, Poland

Youth Peace Olympic Truce
Meeting

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk Youth Peace Olympic Truce Meeting, a gathering of 2000 youth from around the world to discuss world poverty, cultural intergration and information. She will also participate in a panel discussion, "Questions to God", which will discuss how capitalism changed our values and the ways in which people are trying to build new ethics.

Location: Torino, Italy

Schweisfurth-Stiftung

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk entitled, "Towards an Economics of Happiness".

Location: Munich, Germany

Cockburn Association- Edinburgh Civic Trust

Helena Norberg-Hodge will talk about her experiences in Ladakh and its lessons for Edinburgh and Scotland.

Location: Ediburgh, Scotland

Global Ecovillage Network meeting (GEN)

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk entitled "Shifting from Global to Local" at this event hosted by the Finhorn Foundation.

Location: Inverness, Scotland

Public Talk

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk at Sharpham, Totnes.

Location: Totnes, UK

World Food Day Conference

Helena Norberg-Hodge will speak at this conference organised by Action Aid, the Guild for Food Writers, the UK Food Group, Sustain-the Alliance for Better Food and Farming, an alliance of journalists and NGOs working on food issues.

Location: London, UK

Think Globally, Eat Locally:
Steps Toward a Local Food Economy

A presentation of ISEC's Local Food slideshow by Steve Gorelick at Sterling College (Room 3, Simpson Hall). For more info contact: s.gorelick@isec.org.uk

Location: Craftsbury Common,
Vermont, USA

Himalayan Film Festival

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talks in conjunction with the showing of "Ancient Futures" and "Paradise with Side Effects".

Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Helena Norberg-Hodge talk and book signing following a presentation of ISEC film, "Ancient Futures". Film at 2pm at the Rubin Museum of Art.

Location: New York, NY

Helena Norberg-Hodge address at Cornell University.

Location: Ithaca, New York

Helena Norberg-Hodge will give to talks: "Shifting Direction - from Global to Local" and"Towards an Economics of Happiness". ISEC film "Ancient Futures" will also be shown.

Location: Australia