Links/Resources
Helpful Definitions
LIVING ECONOMY - ensuring that economic power resides locally, sustaining healthy community life and natural life as well as long-term economic viability. BALLE
LOCALIZATION - restoring the capacity of communities to sustainably feed, clothe, house, and power themselves with the know-how, natural resources, and financial capital inherent to their own bioregions and the people who reside there. Building a Resilient and Equitable Bay Area
SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ECONOMY - a web made of Local Living Economies that build long-term economic empowerment and prosperity through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity, and environmental responsibility. BALLE
Resources
- Why “Think Local First”
- The 10% Shift - a case study
- Ten Top Reasons to Support Local English and Spanish
- Local Works
- Hometown Advantage: Reviving Locally-Owned Businesses
- The Small-Mart Revolution
Organizations
- BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- Civic Economics
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- The E. F. Schumacher Society
- The Center for Whole Communities
- Transition Boulder County
Databases
- Colorado Local First - from our sister BALLE organization in Denver
- Local Philosophy - an effort in Golden, Colorado
Films
- Our local film! Eat Local- Grow Local: Growing Roots in Northern Colorado
- Waste? Recycled. Reclaimed. Redefined.
- The Story of Stuff
Books
- The Small-Mart Revolution and Going Local, books by MICHAEL SHUMAN (who presented in Fort Collins in 2007: “Building a Local Living Economy in Northern Colorado”)
- The Ecology of Commerce, PAUL HAWKEN
- Natural Capitalism, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken
- Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
- Omnivore’s Dilemma, MICHAEL POLLAN
- The Gift of Good Land, WENDELL BERRY
- The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Local Government
- From City of Fort Collins:
- Doing Business with Local Vendors: Purchasing Policies
- Entrepreneurial Support from City of Fort Collins, Economic Advisory Committee and the Economic Task Force of UniverCity Connections (UCC)
- Economic Newsletter
- Some thoughts on Trash Redistricting conversation (2.2.10)
