Go Local

Keeping benefits and accountability close to home.

Resilient Ideas: Making Fruit Public

by Susan DeFreitas

posted Sep 09, 2010

Art-infused activism to bring city fruit to the public.

Resilient Ideas: Processing Food Where the Food Is

by Ari LeVaux

posted Sep 09, 2010

Helping farmers process their produce builds local food security.

Home-Grown Businesses: The Role of Grassroots Financing

by Stacy Mitchell

posted Aug 26, 2010

How businesses are turning to their neighbors for funding.

6 Ways to Start Sharing

by Stephanie Smith

posted Aug 25, 2010

What do you do when you want to start sharing resources, but your community’s not into it?

Fallen Fruit

posted Aug 13, 2010

Video: Sharing knowledge with the community, Fallen Fruit provides maps for locals to make use of public fruit trees.

L.A. Eco-Village

posted Aug 13, 2010

Video: Urban ecovillages work to strengthen communities and bring neighbors, art, and environmental action together.

Score and Swap, For Free!

posted Aug 13, 2010

Wish there was a store where everything was free? New York's latest pop-up swap, Score!, has the answer.

A Different Kind of Ownership Society

by Marjorie Kelly, Shanna Ratner

posted Aug 03, 2010

Innovative strategies for cooperative local ownership make it possible for prosperity to be shared as well as sustainable.

How to Share a Waffle

by Abby Quillen

posted Jul 19, 2010

Bartering for your breakfast: One step closer to a local economy?

Taking Financial Reform into Our Own Hands

by Stacy Mitchell

posted Jul 15, 2010

Why we can't let this financial reform bill be our only response to the economic crisis.

How to Share Time

by Mira Luna

posted Jul 08, 2010

When dollars are scarce, timebanks help neighbors swap skills, instead.

Bailouts Redefined: Interview with David Korten

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jun 28, 2010

David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and an attendee of the US Social Forum, on how a new economy can bail out both people and nature.

Haitian Farmers: So All Can Eat, Produce It Here

by Doudou Pierre with Beverly Bell

posted Jun 15, 2010

Haitians are working to make food sovereignty a key part of post-earthquake rebuilding.

Weaving A Great Turning: Transition Albany Takes It Step-by-Step

by Pamela O'Malley Chang

posted Jun 10, 2010

A follow-up on the efforts to transform a 1.7-square-mile California town into a self-sufficient and resilient community.

Lighting the Way to a New Economy

by David Korten

posted May 31, 2010

All across the United States and Canada people are rebuilding their local economies to restore community and regain control of their economic lives. How do these local efforts add up to global economic transformation? I delivered this keynote address to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in Charleston, NC on May 22, 2010 on the theme "Lighting the Way to a New Economy."