Shuman on local economies at Mother Nature Network
March 8, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow and author of Local Dollars, Local Sense, Michael Shuman were featured in this article at Mother Nature Network.
From the article:
When author Michael Shuman first started talking about growing local economies back in 1998, not many people were prepared to listen. "I gave an invited talk at the University of Kentucky," he remembers. "Two people showed up and one left early."
Today things are a little bit different. Last year Shuman published his eighth book, "Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity." He is the director of research and economic development for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), the director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, both of which deal with community-based economics, and a fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. On top of that he travels around the country, giving at least 50 invited talks and presentations about strengthening local economies every year.