Check out this short interview with Michael followed by short 12 ways community’s can become economic resilient. Recorded at the FL Small Farms and Alternative Enterprise Conference 2012.
12 ways community can become economic resilient
By Michael Shuman, originally published by Code Green Community
August 8, 2012


Michael Shuman
Michael Shuman is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, director of research and economic development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute. He holds an AB with distinction in economics and international relations from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School. He has led community-based economic-development efforts across the country and has authored or edited seven previous books, including The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2006) and Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (1998).
In recent years, Michael has led community-based economic-development efforts in St. Lawrence County (NY), Hudson Valley (NY), Katahdin Region (ME), Martha's Vineyard (MA), and Carbondale (CO), and served as a senior editor for the recently published Encyclopedia of Community. He has given an average of more than one invited talk per week for
Tags: relocalization
Related Articles
A Note on the Social Ecology of Capital
By Éric Pineault, Mother Pelican
A Social Ecology of Capital is a contribution to the critical analysis of capitalist growth and its environmental contradictions.
June 8, 2023
‘The Future is Degrowth’ and ‘Degrowth & Strategy’: a Review in Dialogue
While it is now largely clear what degrowth is striving for, how to realize the transformation towards this end-state has not been engaged with satisfactorily.
June 7, 2023
Crazy Town: Episode 76. How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Meet Steve Bannon, the Molotov mixologist who wants to light the world on fire. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
June 7, 2023
From Bayanihan to Talkoot: Communal work practices from around the world
By Jeffrey Andreoni, Shareable
Communal work refers to a collaborative effort where members of a community come together to achieve a common goal or objective.
June 6, 2023