Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Learning about economic localization.

A buy local video from the National Main Street Program:



And a suggested reading list from the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE):


THE SMALL-MART REVOLUTION
: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition, by Michael H. Shuman

GOING LOCAL
: Building Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, by Michael H. Shuman

DEEP ECONOMY
: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben

AGENDA FOR A NEW ECONOMY
: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, by David C. Korten

THE GREAT TURNING: From Empire to Earth Community, by David C. Korten

FIELDS OF PLENTY
: by Michael Abelman

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE
: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver

PLENTY: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA
: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan

SMALL GIANTS
: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham

THE COMPANY WE KEEP
: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place, by John Abrams

COMPANIES WE KEEP
: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place, by John Abrams

GROWING LOCAL VALUE
: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community, by Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart

BIG-BOX SWINDLE
: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses, by Stacy Mitchell

AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM
: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, by Gar Alperovitz

BUILDING POWERFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Jacoby Brown

GREEN ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALISATION
: A Manifesto, by Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas.

3 comments:

bayernfan said...

Growing Local Value is a book I've read recently and had a lot of terrific ideas.

The New Albanian said...

There you go again ... being all rational and shit.

"Taken a look at the zip code on yer mail lately, pergessive? This ain't the People's Republic of Berkeley."

Jeff Gillenwater said...

Wanting to change my zip code is a double entendre, though you've hit on a raison d'ĂȘtre.

Perhaps my personal favorite explanation as to why we can't talk about this stuff as a community is because not enough people are talking about it yet.