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How Communities Can Embrace Independence
What would happen if a clever band of Russian hackers crashed most of the United States’ electrical grid—and were able to keep it shut down for years? How well would your community fare?
In Cherish: Love in a Season of Loss, Mark Sommer ex...
10 Ways to Raise Grassroots Capital
I spoke this week at a Green Education webinar with Neil Seldman of Zero Waste USA on “Community Strategies for Financing Circularity.” I sketched ten options that recycling and reuse companies might use to capitalize themselves with invest...
Exhibit A for Local Identity
Let’s muse on museums. The first News link below, from Smithsonian Magazine, describes how the new Obama Presidential Center breaks with presidential museum tradition by skipping paper archives and providing neighborhood amenities like lots...
Don't Miss World Localization Day, This Weekend!
One of the dumbest stereotypes of “localization” is that it’s an elite movement of deep-pocket, farmers-market-going hippies who—unlike the average person—can afford the high prices of local goods and services. For clear proof that this arg...
Goodbye, Electric Utilities
We hear a lot these days about the critical importance of repairing and improving the electric grid in the United States. Robinson Meyer, in a recent New York Times opinion piece, argues: “Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity t...
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I am a full-time visionary on community economics and have published many books on the topic. I also love moose.
Editor of The Main Street Journal - The world’s hub for local investors.
Former software developer, magazine editor (Wired, MAKE), etc. who helped lobby for the creation of the Reg CF investment exemption.
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