The Transition Handbook 2nd edition, which is being created in a Wiki, contains a new sub-chapter:
Asks people to set aside some of their monthly budget for purchases at independent local brick-and-mortar businesses to help them stick around. new economics solutions for the interlinked credit, climate and energy crises
by Michael H Shuman -- Strategies and tools for relocalizing. Local businesses give more to charity,
adapt more easily to rising labor and environmental standards, and produce more wealth for a community.
They also spend more locally, thereby increasing community income and creating wealth and jobs.
Web: Small-Mart.org -- Ideas and Tools for Building Healthy Local Econnomies
Michael Shuman advocates "Going Local," showing how local businesses are
beating global competition and helping to create self-reliant communities.
You might skip the first 13.5 minutes of introductions (or at least leave them for later)!
[Click the links on the Web page to download PDF files]
Course Contents
Course Slides – Friday, March 17
Course Slides – Saturday, March 18
Course Slides – Sunday, March 19
Notes from Sunday Discussion
Small-Mart Revolution “To Do” List -- Tools for Relocalizing
Monetary and Economic Reform
"The sign of excellence in a new world of the larger self is not vast profit or possessions,
but sufficient material success to allow large and thoughtful contributions to society."
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization – by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
The End of Money: Overview -- get a taste of the book on line.
ReinventingMoney.com -- Thomas H. Greco, Jr.'s Web site: "The mission of this site is to demystify money by presenting the best leading-edge ideas on monetary and non-monetary exchange. It is a resource devoted to the advancement of economic democracy, self-determination, and global harmony.
Chris Martenson ties together the Three E's - Economy, Energy and the Environment
to help you begin preparing for a future that will be drastically different from the past.
Web of Debt Articles — Articles by Ellen Brown, J.D. Web of Debt Links
Since 2000, the state’s GNP has grown 56%, personal income has grown 43%, and wages have grown 34%.
This year the state has a budget surplus of $1.2 billion! .... What does the State of North Dakota have that other states don’t?
The answer seems to be: its own bank.
Douglas Rushkoff's Blog with excerpts from Life, Inc.
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability – by James Gustave Speth
Money is Debt — How the banking systems get away with creating monetary policies that keep the governments and people in a perpetual state of rising debt. by Senator Byron L. Dorgan, D. North Dakota. One of the eight senators who voted against bank deregulation,
he argues that government has become a partner to Big Oil, Big Media, and Big Pharma. With humor and heart,
Dorgan argues that we have to rein in the financial conglomerates and power brokers, and hold our public
officials accountable for regulating the economy.
Senator Dorgan on YouTube
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the "banker to the poor" for making small loans in impoverished countries, is now doing business in the center of capitalism -- New York City. In the past year the first U.S. branch of his Grameen Bank has lent $1.5 million, ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, to nearly 600 women with small business plans in the city's borough of Queens. People around the country are struggling to repay mortgages and credit card debts, but Grameen America says its loan repayment rate is more than 99 percent. [ more ] Interview with Muhammad Yunus -- "My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see." --Muhammad Yunus
Local, Complementary and Online Currencies
Transaction Net -- Enabling Markets Online
Product Sharing
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