Helena Norberg-Hodge Development is generally regarded as a good thing. It is often equated with progress. The prevailing pattern of development is the model to be emulated. The global economy is propelled by a relentless drive toward more exploitation of resources - more technological innovation - more markets and more profits. Consumerism is the dominant mindset. Development is its mantra. The world as refracted through this ideological prism is a kind of pie. There are questions of tactics as to how to cut it up. The First World - with the largest knives and a voracious appetite - cuts itself the most generous pieces. Everyone else scrambles for the crumbs. Helena Norberg-Hodge has examined and critiqued conventional notions of development. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 1992) Helena Norberg-Hodge - a linguist by training and a native of Sweden - was educated in Europe and the United States. She is a leading critic of conventional notions of growth and development. In 1975 - she went to Ladakh - in the northwestern Himalayas in India. Three years later she founded the Ladakh Project - with the goal of providing Ladakhis with the means to make more informed choices about their own future. Her work has received wide support and recognition. She is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Founder and Director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture - she received the Right Livelihood Award - also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.