- #THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: EVOLUTION, HEALTH AND DISEASE NORBERG HODGE, HELENA FULL#
- #THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: EVOLUTION, HEALTH AND DISEASE NORBERG HODGE, HELENA PROFESSIONAL#
Music by Justin Crawmer, Sam Sycamore, and Marty O'Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra.
He is currently Chair and Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He has written numerous academic articles, essays and four books: Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century, The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship, and Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education. in Sustainability Education from Prescott College.
#THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: EVOLUTION, HEALTH AND DISEASE NORBERG HODGE, HELENA PROFESSIONAL#
He received professional training at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco, earned his BA in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley and MA in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research. He is a founding theorist and architect of ecomedia literacy. Antonio López is a leading international expert bridging ecojustice with media literacy. Most of us are familiar with the environmental impacts of our physical technology, like the e-waste generated from cell phones or the minerals required to run our laptops, but have you ever wondered about the connections between digital media and resource extraction? This week we are joined by guest Antonio López to explore how ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and digital media and information, have not only transformed Earth but are also contributing to our collective carbon footprint.
#THE STORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: EVOLUTION, HEALTH AND DISEASE NORBERG HODGE, HELENA FULL#
Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points. Music by Dana Anastasia and Chloe Levaillant. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future. Helena Norberg-Hodge is an innovator of the new economy movement. In this week’s episode, we learn about what continues to strengthen and uphold the wastefulness of our global trade system and how global corporations decimate diversity in terms of species, livelihoods, and identities with guest Helena Norberg-Hodge.
So absurd, that often we fixate on the hypocrisy of how it became possible that food packaged and processed on the other side of the world is somehow “cheaper” than that which is grown by our neighbors. Through the support of ever-growing subsidies, trade deals, and taxes global corporations have ballooned, creating a highly violent, exploitative, and absurd global trade system.