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How to Protect Your Local Economy From the Great Reset
How to Protect Your Local Economy From the Great Reset Over the years, I have written extensively about the concept of economic “decentralization” and localization, but I think these ideas are difficult for some people to visualize without proper motivation. By that I mean, it’s not enough that the current centralized model is destructive and […]
The Supersedure State
The Supersedure State I said that I wanted to focus on the shape of possible agrarian, post-capitalist states of the future in my forthcoming writing, so I thought I’d anticipate that here by reproducing my article from the current issue of The Land magazine (Issue 22, 2018, pp.28-30). The editors of that august journal in their wisdom […]
Buying Local Is the Key to Strong Regional Economies
Buying Local Is the Key to Strong Regional Economies In the leaky bucket analogy for local economies, money flows into a region to circulate through local businesses like water into a bucket. Water that leaks out is money that escapes the local economy to pay for imports. The more watertight the bucket, the more wealth […]
How to Grow a Local Job-Rich Economy
How to Grow a Local Job-Rich Economy At a time when huge debates are raging over all the subsidies required by the 1 per cent of the business elite, Michael Shuman is working to shift public attention to the other, ultimately more positive, side of the picture – the sheer neglect of the 50 per cent […]
The Local Economy Solution
The Local Economy Solution Chelsea Green Publishing Serving as mayor provides one with an array of opportunities to demean oneself on a regular basis—funny hats and dunk tanks tend to be involved. However, for me, and for most of the mayors I know, the lowest moments occur in the grandest corporate offices during economic development […]
The Benefits of Localism
The Benefits of Localism Could you talk about your background and how you became involved in the “buy local” movement? Since 1982, after completing Stanford Law School, I’ve been trying to connect communities to the world. I spent my first ten years mobilizing cities to get involved in foreign policy through a nonprofit I started […]
Is the Local Economy the Solution to a Post-Capitalist World?
Is the Local Economy the Solution to a Post-Capitalist World? In his new book, Michael Shuman debunks many of the myths around economic development. Think local. Buy local. Support your local community. Community investment. This all makes sense, right? Right. Then why do so many government-funded economic development programs get this wrong? According to community economics […]
The circular economy’s missing ingredient: Local
The circular economy’s missing ingredient: Local Courtesy ofMari Viramontes The Chicago flag, made from wood salvaged at The Plant. One Saturday in early June, a group of people gathered behind an old meatpacking plant on Chicago’s South Side, armed with shovels and handmade compost sifters. In teams of three, the group began sifting a huge […]
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity A documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises. The dominant mode of global development today seeks to universalise high-consumption consumer lifestyles, […]
The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy.
The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy. We are often asked “what would a Transition local government look like?” It’s a complex question, but one Council taking a pioneering approach to its local economy is Preston in Lancashire. Preston City Council, working with Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) recently published ‘Creating a Good […]
Inspiration For the Burned-Out Localizer
Richard Heinberg wants you to “learn to be successfully and happily poorer.” Photo: video screenshot. Inspiration For the Burned-Out Localizer While Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism, Richard Heinberg predicts the next thing will be localism. “All roads appear to lead eventually to localism; the questions are: how and when shall we arrive there, and […]
Change They Don’t Believe In
Change They Don’t Believe In The unfortunate consequence of not allowing the process of “creative destruction” to occur in banking and Big Business is that the historic forces behind it will seek expression elsewhere in the realm of politics and governance. The desperate antics of central banks to cover up financial failure can’t help […]
The Broken Template
The Broken Template The more detached from reality American culture becomes the more strictly ceremonial leadership gets, as illustrated by the raft of bromides Barack Obama floated past the assembled vassalage of government last week in another grand effort to avoid the necessities of the moment. Those necessities include freeing a hostage public from the […]
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Communities across the United States and Europe are working to transform local economic systems so that they are more sustainable and equitable. Programs that support the production of nutritious and culturally appropriate food by local farmers and locally sourced renewable energy, construction and […]
