The Guides
More and more Americans acutely sense that the old way of doing things — investing their savings in Wall Street companies who care little about the well-being of our families and communities … depending on polluting, increasingly costly, and non-renewable sources of energy … eating food that makes us sick and is grown far away — is no longer working. They want to reinvest in their own homes and communities. They want to become more self-reliant, and more connected with the place and people around them. They want to create a more resilient community for themselves, their kids, and their neighbors. But how?
The Community Resilience Guides aim to answer these critical questions:
- What are the most promising, replicable models of actual, on-the-ground community food security projects in the thriving local food movement?
- How can we move away from large, centralized, highly polluting, wasteful and non-renewable sources of energy?
- How can we shift trillions of dollars currently invested in Wall Street away from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and into local economies?
- How can communities use their planning and governance capacities to encourage relocalized food, energy, and economic systems?
