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BUILDING
VIBRANT LOCAL ECONOMIES |
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BIRTH
OF A FARMERS’ MARKET
George
DeVault
It was a beautiful midsummer morning. Curious
area residents began trickling into the open air
market. And they just kept coming, with their
spouses, friends and neighbors, children of all
ages. And they’re still coming on Sundays
between 10 am and 2 pm. |
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FOOD
MARKET WITH BIG BIG PROMISE
Chris
Bedford
The Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market in Sioux
City, Iowa features more than “Healthy,
Humane Homegrown.” It also offers the
promise of a healthy local economy — since
sustainable economic development is a principal
goal. |
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TRACKING
THE LOCAL IMPACT OF A RETAIL STORE
Tim
Bartlett
Manager of Buffalo food cooperative develops
method to monitor how
its sales increase success of local businesses,
farmers and residents. |
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DOING
BUSINESS THE “VERMONT WAY
Molly
Farrell
A visionary leader in Burlington has provided
great energy to revitalize
the Intervale while working towards a triple
bottom line: environmental improvement, community
development and financial success. |
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NATURAL
FOODS CO-OP EXPANDS ON GREEN PRINCIPLES
Dedicated
to the local community and farm economy,
Sacramento Co-op keeps growing on sound methods
and customer demand. |
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DEFINING
A CONSUMER COOPERATIVE BUSINESS
The
goal is to “provide goods and services in a
way that keeps community resources in the
community.” |
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LOCAL
CURRENCIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Susan
Witt and Christopher Lindstrom
Dedicated to creating appropriate scaled economic
tools that benefit
small businesses and family farms, the E.F.
Schumacher Society sponsored
a conference last month on the impacts of
place-based monetary tools. |
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INTEREST
FREE SAVINGS AND LOAN SYSTEM
Joel
Stonington
The JAK Bank in Sweden has been making interest
free loans since 1973 and charges only a little
more than an average bank fee. |
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BRINGING
SUSTAINABILITY TO LOS ANGELES
Robert
Feinbaum
An organization called TreePeople sees saving
water as the first step to improving the quality
of life for California residents |
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CREATING
RENEWABLE ENERGY AT AN ORGANIC DAIRY
The
Straus Family Dairy comes up with a system to
generate power from
manure and wastewater — saving $6,000/month
in electricity costs |
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COLUMNS |
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BALLE
BEAT
Andy
Smith
Twenty Ways To Build A Local, Living Economy |
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ECOSTYLE
Delia
Montgomery
Green Merchandising |
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