Helena Norberg-Hodge is director of both the Ladakh Project and ISEC. Her formal training was in linguistics, including work at MIT with Noam Chomsky. She has lectured extensively on environmental issues in both Europe and North America, and is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (1991), which explores the root causes behind today's environmental and social malaise, In 1986, she received the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.
Peter Goering graduated in civil engineering from Princeton University. He received his MA from the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley, a department which conducts interdisciplinary research into the relationship between resources, society and the environment. He is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation on 'Sustainable Development and the Contradictions of Modernism', while also working as the ISEC's Research Coordinator.
John Page was trained as a barrister in London. For the last decade he has coordinated the technical, educational and agricultural activities of the Ladakh Project, and is now programmes director of ISEC. He is the producer/director of two recent films: The Future of Progress, a compilation of interviews with internationally known environmentalists, and Ancient Futures: Lessons from Little Tibet, a documentary based on Ms Norberg-Hodge's book.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is director of both the Ladakh Project and ISEC. Her formal training was in linguistics, including work at MIT with Noam Chomsky. She has lectured extensively on environmental issues in both Europe and North America, and is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (1991), which explores the root causes behind today's environmental and social malaise, In 1986, she received the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.
Peter Goering graduated in civil engineering from Princeton University. He received his MA from the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley, a department which conducts interdisciplinary research into the relationship between resources, society and the environment. He is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation on 'Sustainable Development and the Contradictions of Modernism', while also working as the ISEC's Research Coordinator.
John Page was trained as a barrister in London. For the last decade he has coordinated the technical, educational and agricultural activities of the Ladakh Project, and is now programmes director of ISEC. He is the producer/director of two recent films: The Future of Progress, a compilation of interviews with internationally known environmentalists, and Ancient Futures: Lessons from Little Tibet, a documentary based on Ms Norberg-Hodge's book.
