Media/Photo Gallery
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MEDIA
Michael Shuman’s February 2011 visit
CSU Student Journalist review talk on Reinventing Local Economy
NC Business Report on Community Capital workshop
National survey – Institute for Local Self-Reliance
2011 Independent Business Survey Results
in Edible Front Range
Winter 2011 The Weather Outside Is Frightful, But the Food Inside’s Delightful
in The Scene Magazine
Dec 2010 Winter Farmers’ Markets Offers Year-Round Local Goodies
in The Coloradoan
Spring-summer 2010 Newspaper Series on Our Farmers
online from Bloomberg Business Week
January 2010: The results are in: This “Buy Local” stuff is really working! A new post-holiday survey by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has found for the third year in a row that independent retailers in cities with active Local First campaigns reported stronger holiday sales than those in cities without such campaigns – and 80% reported growing awareness among customers. For details, click here, or read about it in Business Week Online
from 1% for the Planet
Be Local NC is now an approved non-profit with 1% for the Planet which exists to build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet. Any participating business can designate Be Local NC as a recipient. Thank you for considering this. More info
from Triple Pundit
May 2009 Blog entry on Be Local NC from national conference attendee: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
from Business Week On-line
January 2009 Be Local Coupon Book featured (Photo taken in Ten Thousand Villages)