{"id":10759,"date":"2015-08-05T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:48:30","slug":"local-economy-or-local-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10759","title":{"rendered":"Local Economy or Local-Washing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Local Economy or Local-Washing?<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cLocal\u201d has become a buzzword. Today there\u2019s eco-localism, local food and local farming, local media movements, as well as regional, state, and even national ad campaigns urging us to \u201ceat local\u201d and \u201cbuy local.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local\u2019s gone global, but what exactly does the term\u00a0mean anymore?<\/p>\n

David Levine, of the American Sustainable Business Council, discusses the \u201ctriple bottom line\u201d of social, environmental, and economic impacts. \u201cLocal by itself is not enough,\u201d he tells\u00a0Yes! Magazine<\/a>. Levine does not want, for example, people buying \u201clocal first\u201d from a locally owned sweatshop, toxic chemical plant or dirty manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n

Add some democracy to your localism<\/h3>\n

The goal is having community-led, community-controlled economies where the decision-making is by those who are feeling the effects of the decisions that are made. This type of development comes under the rubric of what is becoming called Commonomics\u00a0\u2014\u00a0economic democracies that foster local self-reliance.<\/p>\n

Farmer-philosopher\u00a0Wendell Berry<\/a>\u00a0defines economy this way<\/p>\n

I mean not economics but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth; the arts of adapting kindly the many, many human households to the earth\u2019s many eco-systems and human neighborhoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By now, we all know the signs of a human household that\u2019s been hollowed out.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen the food deserts and the chronically vacant homes, the ghostly downtown storefronts and the municipalities being courted by sweet-talking corporations that suck up public resources and then run away. We\u2019re familiar with the tension in towns where the only thing that the rich and poor have in common are the roads. We know what it\u2019s like to be close, everywhere, to the same chain coffee shop and two hours away from the \u201clocal\u201d hospital. We see the sprawl that\u2019s eating the woodlands.<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/08\/local-economy-or-local-washing\/#sthash.TzCsMNug.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n

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Local Economy or Local-Washing? \u201cLocal\u201d has become a buzzword. Today there\u2019s eco-localism, local food and local farming, local media movements, as well as regional, state, and even national ad campaigns urging us to \u201ceat local\u201d and \u201cbuy local.\u201d Local\u2019s gone global, but what exactly does the term\u00a0mean anymore? David Levine, of the American Sustainable Business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[7870,7873,7872,7871,489,490,1426,655,5970],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-buying-local","tag-buzzword","tag-eco-localism","tag-local-production","tag-localisation","tag-localization","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-transition-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}