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To be the local forum where businesses come together to transform and model an economy built on a triple bottom line (economy, community & environment). We work with local, independently owned businesses that have the autonomy to make any transformational change in their business that they can imagine… reexamining where we buy goods and services, how we grow and distribute our food, how w
02/26/2013
Great video expose on how data can be used. Just think about how we can use data in the U.P.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21535739
How 'big data' is changing lives A lifetime of data in a day? How 21st Century data deluges are changing the way we live.
02/04/2013
“There is nothing inevitable about the current structure of our economy, it’s not the the product of some natural evolution, it’s the logical outcome of a set of policies”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6rAgHcuYtE
Why We Can't Shop Our Way to a Better Economy: Stacy Mitchell at TEDxDirigo Stacy Mitchell is a researcher and writer at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), a national nonprofit organization that challenges corporate consol...
The Placemaking Myth:
People today are beginning to voice the concern that Placemaking is “counterproductive” to economic development, because they’ve been led to believe that the process is simply about cutting and pasting things that worked somewhere else into struggling spaces. But great places and strong local economies are created in the same way: by getting people together to define local challenges and come up with appropriate solutions to address them.
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/projectpublicspaces/117221/placemaking-and-local-economies
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/projectpublicspaces/117221/placemaking-and-local-economies
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