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.
Growing Local Value is a book I've read recently and had a lot of terrific ideas.
ReplyDeleteThere you go again ... being all rational and shit.
ReplyDelete"Taken a look at the zip code on yer mail lately, pergessive? This ain't the People's Republic of Berkeley."
Wanting to change my zip code is a double entendre, though you've hit on a raison d'être.
ReplyDeletePerhaps 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.