ProutCast

What if everything we’ve been told about progress, growth, and the global economy is wrong? In this episode of ProutCast, Ralph speaks with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures, to explore a radically different vision for the future. Drawing on her experiences in Ladakh, Helena reflects on how globalisation transformed a once resilient, community-based culture—bringing not just economic...

Enable subtitles in English on YouTube to follow along in English! ¿Cómo pueden los países latinoamericanos colaborar para enfrentar desigualdad, deforestación y crisis económicas sin depender únicamente de poderes externos? En este episodio de ProutCast, Arunima conversa con Regiane Nitsch Bressan, profesora asociada de la Universidad Federal de São Paulo y especialista en integración regional y...

What happens when rural development is designed around water, soil, and dignity — instead of profit and extraction? In this episode of Proutcast, we speak with Pradeep Sharma, former Planning & Policy Advisor to the Government of Chhattisgarh, whose life journey bridges tribal village life, environmental activism, corporate agriculture, spiritual inquiry, and state-level policy design. Born in...

National policies often overlook the realities of daily life — yet the solutions to economic hardship, depopulation, and land degradation often already exist within the community itself. In this episode, community organiser Filipa Costa takes us inside the Converge Movement of Cova da Beira, a pioneering effort in Portugal where residents, local producers, associations, and municipalities come tog...

Our economies measure growth, yet ignore the living foundations that make growth possible. In this episode, economist and systems thinker James Quilligan explores how we might reimagine economics to reflect the living value of the Earth itself.  Welcome to ProutCast. In this conversation we speak with James Quilligan, a pioneering voice in planetary economics, commons-based governance, and post-gr...

Foreign aid often fails to create real change. In this episode, humanitarian Demeter Russafov shares how communities in Haiti built sustainable progress from the ground up — and what the world can learn from it. Welcome to ProutCast. In this episode we speak with Demeter Russafov, a humanitarian, environmental planner and social entrepreneur whose long-term work in Haiti has reshaped communities w...

Welcome to ProutCast! We are pleased to announce the launch of this podcast where we will regularly invite guests to discuss practical solutions for the future , how we can all move forward as a collective society to progressively enhance our wellbeing . We had the immense pleasure of having Nada Khader, Executive Director at WESPAC (Westchester People's Action Coalition) foundation as our fir...