Great idea and action Transition Town Totnes Business & Livelihoods Group. They organised a Re Economy Project launched to spawn and support new social and sustainable enterprises.

Michael Shuman’s new book is out…

Anyone read Raj Patel’s book ’The Value of Nothing’?

Business for Local Living Economies writes: An old, but increasingly popular, solution to build local economies: cooperative ownership. Now, over 130 million Americans are part owners of a co-op business or credit union.

Worker-Owners of America, Unite! | BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

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Michael Pollan says: ”community food enterprises” create more jobs than big companies.

Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/27/BUCV1MCFLB.DTL

Home of the San Francisco Chronicle

Michael Pollan says ”Chicago’s whole animal, sustainable butcher shop. Sweet video about a hopeful new trend.”

P&S Ep. 1 | Butcher & Larder on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/32463027

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Entrepreneurship the means to get good things done, says Ernesto Sirolli | http://www.pacific-edge.info

http://pacific-edge.info/sirolli/

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Podcast: Community Economic Development with Dr. Ernesto Sirolli
Tuesday 29 November 2011

An Urban Orchard part 1—2010
A film by Joel Catchlove & Jeremy Nettle

In the inner southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, local residents meet to share the bounty of their backyards. Around the table of the ‘Urban Orchard’ produce exchange, neighbours share their knowledge of food production and preparation. Deceptively simple, the…[Read more]

An Urban Orchard part 2—2010 inner southern suburb s of Adelaide, South Australia

Urban Orchard – part 3

So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them for other edibles at your Urban Orchard market… review of ‘Urban Orchard’ video

A celebration of growing and sharing food in Adelaide | http://www.pacific-edge.info

http://pacific-edge.info/urban_orchard/

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The Urban Orchard is a model for homegrown urban produce growing and exchange

Friends of the Earth Adelaide » The Urban Orchard

http://www.adelaide.foe.org.au/the-urban-orchard/

community | ecology | solidarity | justice

Judy Wicks presentation at the Bioneers conference

Michael Shuman’s new book comes out Feb 2012

Michael H. Shuman, Director for Research and Economic Development for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)

Download Michael Shuman’s paper on ‘The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies’

ECONOMY: The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies

http://www.postcarbon.org/report/172279-economy-the-competitiveness-of-local-living

Complex, interconnected issues must be dealt with rapidly and effectively if we are to…

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In 1983, Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her house on a row of Victorian brownstones in West Philadelphia from here she developed her ideas around building local living economies

Local Living Economies | The Etsy Blog

http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/local-living-economies/

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