Local Futures (formerly the International Society for Ecology and Culture) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness about what it identifies as the root causes of contemporary social, environmental, and economic crises.
The group argues that focusing on single issues – saving whales, blocking nuclear power plants, feeding the hungry, etc.
Instead, Local Futures believes that the focus must be on changing the fundamental forces that create or exacerbate all of these problems.
The group has also organized a series of Economics of Happiness conferences,[6] including recent events in Berkeley, California (2012), Byron Bay, Australia (2013 & 2019), Bangalore, India (2014 & 2019), Portland, Oregon (2015), Florence, Italy (2016 & 2018), Bristol, UK (2018), Ladakh, India (2019) and Tokyo, Japan (2017, 2018 & 2019), as well as an annual event in Jeonju, South Korea.
Another measure of the international reach of this small organization is that Local Futures' many publications and videos have been translated into over 40 different languages.