This page has information distilled from several books on Building Local Economies
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Zingerman's Deli |
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Swanton Berry Farm – California |
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Rating Agencies |
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Cooperative Bank for Agriculture |
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Cooperative Insurance |
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Hanover Cooperative |
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lakes country service cooperative |
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National Cooperative Business Association |
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Cooperative Fund of New England |
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Raising Capital for a new economy |
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CROPP Cooperative |
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Organic Valley |
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For Real Estate Acquisitions |
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Located in Western Massachusetts |
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Department of the Treasury |
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Evergreen Cooperatives |
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Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation |
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Sacramento Foods Cooperative |
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Institute for Local Self-RelianceValue |
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The New Rules Project |
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National Credit Union Administration |
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Formerly the E.F. Schumacher Society |
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Local Currency located in Great Barrington Region |
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National Community Investment Fund |
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The National Credit Union Foundation |
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A New England People's Fund |
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Alternative Federal Credit Union |
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Self-Help Credit Union |
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Coastal Enterprises Inc |
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Bank for the Poor |
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Entrepreneurial Loans for Women |
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CAMEO |
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OMEN
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GMEN
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Association for Enterprise Opportunity
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Small Business Administration
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Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
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An L3C in Vermont
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Including Portfolio 21
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Building Local Alliances for Forest Health
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Silicon Valley Investment Group
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Name Dropping
Nat Henshaw - Muhammad Yunus – Grameen Bank Ellen Kahler – VSJF Janice St. Onge – VSJF Burt Chojnowski - Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association Ari Derfel – Gather Restaurant Ken Priore – Associated with DPO's John Katovich – Cutting Edge Counsel Trexler Proffitt – Lancaster Stock Exchange (no longer functioning) Michael Sauvante – Commonwealth Group John Nelson - David Korten – The Great Turning Esther Park- RSF Social Finance Inna Kinney – ECDI Steve Fireman – ECDI Cortt Dunlap – Awaken Cafe James Frazier – LION Andrew Klein – Using DPO's Leslie Ackerman – Alternatives Federal Credit Union Daniel Fireside – Equal Exchange Gino Borland – Blue Dot Investing (no long functioning) Paul Garner – See Borland, Gino Jae Easterbrooks – Blue Dot Woody Tasch – Slow Money Ellen Brown – State Banking Sam Munger – Institutional Lending Jared Gardner – Oregon State Banking Stacy Mitchell – ISLR Susan Witt - Schumacher Center for a New Economics Linzee Weld – No Small Potatoes Marada Cook – Crown of Maine Jesse Chancellor – Community Investment Partners Terms of Reference L3C – Low Profit Limited Liability Company Intrastate Exemption Rule 504 Rule 505 and 506 Regulation A Security Specialists PE Ratio FINRA NOMAD – Nominated Advisers BIDCO – Business and Industrial Development Corporation Unaccredited Investing Pre-Sales Profit-Free Transitions Local Networking Peer-to-Peer Low Cost Public Offering Micro-Patronage DPO – Direct Public Offering 80-80-80 – 80% of Assets, Revenues, and Offerings must be in the same state CDC's – Community Development Corporations CDFI's – Community Development Financial Institutions CDEs's – Community Development Entities PRI's – Program Related Investments CRA – Community Reinvestment Act SHARE – Self-help Association for a Regional Economy |
Planning Pollinators
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BALLE Main Street Genome Bazzani Associates Village Well The Chinook Book Edible ShopCity Bernal Bucks (blank site) Tucson Originals http://tucsonoriginals.com/ Supportland The Sirolli Institute Simon Fraser University ZingTrain Maker Works The Impact Hub The Northwest Regional Commission Fledge Local First Arizona Reap Calgary Tucson Originals Small Potatoes Urban Delivery Reading Terminal Market VanCity Cutting Edge Capital Mission Markets Farmworks Credibles |
Other Notes Civic Economics Attract and Retain Significance Causality Job Retention Living Wages Resident Employment Subsidy Costs Opportunity Costs NAICS Man makes plans … and God Laughs Right Livelihood Schumacher Buddhism's Noble Eightfold Path Nicole Chaland ZcoB Tom Root Accelerator Y – Combinator Spring Cowork Spaces David Van Seters Jessie Radies Haymarket Square |
Chaper 1 The State of Things
Income taken by 1% up from 10% to 20% Share of income taken by 99% down from 20% to 10% Poverty increase from 11.1% to 15% Economics Increase with Depression and World War (New Deal and Marshall Plan) Systems
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Worker Ownership
Utopia?
Attract Retain
Municipal Level Actions
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Socialism – American Style
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Checkerboard Strategy
Hotspots: Banking, Healthcare and Crisis Transformations
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More on Bigger Possibilities
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Stagnation and Punctuated Stagnation
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Names
Dean Baker William Black Charles Morris Kevin Phillips Gary Weiss Gar Alperovitz Riane Eisler Van Jones Bill McKibben Stacy Mitchell James Gustave Speth Rabbi Michael Lerner John Edmonds Bill Cleveland Interfaith Amigos Adam Smith Books America Beyond Capitalism The Real Wealth of Nations The Green Collar Economy Deep Economy Big Box Swindle The Bridge at the Edge of the World Concepts Looking Upstream
Cooperative Banks State-owned Banks Living Enterprises Consumer Credit Home Mortgages Insurance
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Concepts (cont')
Retirement Seattle 1999 Wall Street – Washington Axis Tea Party / Occupy Change the Story Globalizing the Seven Deadly Sins From Sins to Virtues TINA Cultivate Our Possibilities Care and Cooperate From “Me” to “We” From maximizing flows to maximizing stocks Economy as a Fractal Principles of Healthy Living Systems Ecological Balance Equitable Distribution Living Democracy Local Living Economies Green Buildings and Sprawl Roll-back Expand Public Service Media Intervention
Edmonds Fallacy Securitizing Mortgages A Bubble is just a Bubble Debt Slavery Wall Street vs Main Street Freedom to Commit Fraud Capitalism – Rule by Big Money Tinkering at the margins – Marginal Adjustments System Transforming – Redesign Structural Adjustments Buccaneers and Privateers Chartered Corporations – Delinked from Realith Credit Crunch and too much money End of Empire
Wall Street Welfare Queens Public Debt Investing in Communities Publications Yes! Magazine Tikkun Magazine A Ted Talk With Riane Eisler |
Dis-affiliated Chambers of Commerce
Americans for Financial Reform New Economy Working Group International Forum on Globalization East India Company Common Security Club |