Creating Local Wealth by Michael Shuman
The following talk by Michael Shuman was presented as the kickoff event of Vermont’s New Economy Week 2013. It explores various ways that communities can invest locally and create wealth and resilience. Michael Shuman is one of the leading experts on community economics. He is the author of numerous books, including Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Move Your Money from [...]
Rob Hopkins–My Town in Transition
Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. Through speaking, teaching, and writing, he has introduced the idea of making the places we live more resilient, robust, and imaginative in increasingly uncertain times through intentional effort at the community level. The Transition Town movement, which Rob originally started in Totnes, England, has now spread to hundreds of towns across thirty-four countries. [...]
Michelle Long, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
June 9, 2012
BALLE, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, is a network of over 22,000 socially responsible businesses across the U.S. and Canada. BALLE aims to promote community wellbeing and sustainable livelihoods by supporting local businesses as one of the most promising agents of social innovation. In the video below, BALLE’s Executive Director Michelle Long discusses the importance of investing [...]
What Can One Person Do?
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— June 13, 2007 —
Climate change, fisheries crashes, toxic pollution, endangered species. Sometimes it’s enough to make you throw up your hands in despair. “I’m just one person, what difference can I make? What could I do?”
Well, actually one person – one ordinary person – can do quite a lot if she sets her mind to it. [...]
Community and Sustainability – A Powerful Combination
by Elizabeth Sawin
— May 1, 2003 —
Some years ago, I was part of a group that set out to create a community where we could experiment with sustainable living. One of our first steps was to write down a list of guiding principles. At the top of our list were Community and Sustainability. (The others, if you are curious, were [...]
