Speaker: Gilbert Rochecouste (Village Well - http://www.villagewell.org/) With people feeling increasingly disconnected from their communities and climate changed caused in no small part by our transport needs, localisation provides an attractive alternative to ‘economic globalisation’. It is a move to greater social, cultural and ecological diversity – a world that is locally self-sufficient and not based on a competitive consumerist society. Can a cooperative, mutually beneficial world work? How will it work? Can it really provide us with the cultural and spiritual improvements it promises as well as feed the nation?