>Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:03:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: LOKA INSTITUTE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: New Book: _Going Local_
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>RECOMMENDED READING: New Book on Sustainable Communities
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>For those interested in nuts and bolts of community self-
>reliance, Michael Shuman's latest book, GOING LOCAL, offers
>literally hundreds of examples of communities that are actually
>doing it. Shuman, who is a fellow at the Institute for Policy
>Studies and until recently was its director, argues that most
>communities already have the resources -- financial, human, and
>technological -- to render themselves less vulnerable to the
>unpredictable oscillations of the new global economy.
>
>Loka friends will be especially intrigued to read Shuman's
>arguments for creating import-replacing industries at the local
>level. He outlines how communities could now create local
>industries that meet basic needs of energy, food, water,
>clothing, and housing. For example:
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> - Small-scale power producers and energy-service companies
>are beginning to displace large-scale utilities.
>
> - Community recyclers are rendering obsolete large-scale
>mining, milling, smelting, and materials fabrication companies.
>
> - Community-supported agriculture (CSA) arrangements hold
>the potential to reduce dependence on industrial-scale farming.
>
> - Flexible manufacturing networks give communities to team
>up with other communities and achieving larger economies of scale
>-- without surrendering local ownership and control.
>
>Shuman also explores how a community can finance these new
>businesses through community banks, pension funds, and money
>systems, and speed their adoption through smart local policy.
>The book concludes with an appendix, "Around the World Economy in
>80 Ways," which contains contact information on several hundred
>organizations.
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>For more information about the book -- and how to order -- please
>call 202-238-0010 or visit http://dev-works.com/goinglocal.html.
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