Catherine Ingram is founder and president of Living Dharma, an educational nonprofit organization,

and the author of Passionate Presence, In the Footsteps of Gandhi, and A Crack in Everything. This is her plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local Futures, a non-profit organization that has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years.