By Helena Norberg-Hodge
Energized by means of the destiny of a those that had captured her center, Norberg-Hodge helped identify the Ladakh venture (later renamed the overseas Society for Ecology and tradition) to hunt sustainable recommendations that shield cultural integrity and environmental future health whereas addressing the starvation for modernization. for the reason that then, different Ladakh-based initiatives have proliferated, helping renewable strength structures, neighborhood agricultural tools, and the non secular foundations of Ladakhi culture.
The author’s new afterword brings readers updated at the paintings of those initiatives and on her personal profession over a number of a long time as she traveled greatly, watching related affects on different cultures. She demanding situations us to reconsider our options of “development” and “progress,” stressing especially the necessity to hold old knowledge into our future.
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